Work With Us
Let’s make something.
We don’t sell ad space. Since 2008, we have been building the most engaged community in print and design culture, and we understand creatives because
we are creatives. Today that community reaches over 12 million a month, with 420K on Instagram, a 55K+ newsletter and more than a million followers across
every platform we touch. But reach is the one part.
What we really offer is trust, a physical studio, a global network of makers and the ability to turn
almost any print idea into something real.
Every partnership we build is different, so the first thing we want to know is what you are trying to do. Contact us and we will take it from there.
What we can do together
Editorial your community wants to read, carried across every channel we run.
We turn your story into editorial worth reading, then move it everywhere our community lives, with the artists involved tagged in and talking about it. We built James Cropper a content programme around nine anchor artists and took our audience inside OFFF Barcelona with Nils Leonard, Snask and Reuben Wu. This is where most partnerships begin and the reason the rest of them work.
Your brand as a collectible poster magazine, in the format we made famous.
Posterzine® is our poster magazine, 115 issues deep, registered with the British Library and stocked everywhere from Tate Modern to MoMA. Now brands can make their own. We have created branded editions with Monotype, Absolut, Universal Music Group and Hidden Agency, handing our audience a physical object they keep rather than an ad they scroll past. You bring the brief, we bring the format and the craft, and the result is a collectable with real editorial weight and your name on it.
We know who is making the best work, we put them on your brief.
We have spent close to two decades finding the best makers around the world. We curated the first fifty artists for Everpress, and we match brands with the right people, then run the commission from first conversation to final delivery, with IP protections built in from the start. From Universal Music and Absolut to Vans, Levi’s and UEFA, we have been putting the right hands on the right brief since 2008. Tell us the brief, and we will tell you exactly who should make it.
Open calls, competitions and events that pull the right people in
We design and run the whole thing, from the brief that pulls the right applicants to the social that fills the room. We have run open calls, competitions and booking led events that drive real entries and real visitors, and created window displays for Champion in collaboration with photographers and artists. We handle the call to action, the reach and the experience on the day as one job, so you get the crowd, the content and the afterglow.
Print workshops in our studio, or brought to yours.
Our home, Department Store and Co, is a shop, gallery and event space with a full print floor: screen print, lino, laser cut and engrave, UV printing, DTG, DTF and high quality giclée. We also travel. We have brought portable print workshops into New Designers and into Timberland and Levi’s in store, turning a stand or a shop floor into somewhere people make something with their hands and remember your brand for it. Whether it runs in Derby or in your space, people leave holding something they printed themselves.
We run the job so you don’t have to.
Tell us what you need made and we take it from there. Close to two decades in print means we know which maker suits the job, what it should cost and how quickly it can turn around. That network gets you preferential rates, fast production and makers we already trust. One team manages it all from brief to delivery.
It might be a short run of something beautiful or full-scale manufacture, on paper or as product. Either way we scope it, source it, cost it and keep it moving. We have produced work for Internet.org, the United Nations and hundreds of agencies. If you’re not sure what’s possible or what it should cost, start here…
On stages and in studios worldwide.
After close to two decades inside print and creative culture, we have plenty to say. We share it on festival stages, in studio sessions and through one-to-one guidance for emerging talent. We mentor for Adobe Creative Careers and have spoken internationally.
Every time, we bring the same thing: a practitioner’s view from people who still make the work, run a studio and back the artists. Bring us in to talk to your team, inspire your audience or develop the next generation of makers under your name.
All of the above in one annual package, at a rate that rewards commitment.
Every service works on its own, but most partners choose the annual membership. It brings editorial, commissions, product, events and live print together in one plan for the year, at a far better rate. Time together means we know your brand and every project gets sharper.
We built and ran James Cropper’s Strategic Partner campaign from start to finish. We took xTool’s Pioneer Artist Gallery from first concept to launch. Tell us your goals for the year and we will build the plan around them.
Contact us
You can also email us directly at info@peopleofprint.com.