We’re longtime admirers of Oslo-based design agency Bielke&Yang, which has an apparently effortless knack for merging sharp graphic design and branding work with witty, playful illustration. The studio was founded in 2012, and since then has gone on to work on projects ranging from LBGTQ health campaigns to design fair…
Being design director at a yogurt company might not sound like too much of a big deal, but in the design world, if that yogurt company happens to be Chobani, you’ll know that’s a pretty impressive job title. That title belongs to New York-based Canadian design director and illustrator Gabi…
Uruguayan graphic designer Gabriel Amijai Benderski Perez recently got in touch about a fascinating project he’s put together: an archive of graphic design from his home country. Benderski Perez was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and completed his formal BA training in graphic design at ORT University before spending five years working…
Klaus Kremmerz is (or was, pre 2020) a nomadic kind of illustrator. Working mostly using his iPad or Wacom, he’s taken advantage of the fact he doesn’t really need to carry around too much to make his office anywhere. While he’s currently based in Italy, according to his agency, Dutch…
Beavertown Brewery, a long-standing pal of People of Print, has proven itself to be a bastion of brilliant offbeat design, intricate illustration and popping colours (as well as very very tasty beer) since its launch around eight years ago. In a world where craft beer copycats are two a penny,…
If you’re yet to discover the Instagram account showmeyourprintshop, get over there, pronto. The account presents, as you’ve likely guessed from its name, print shops. They range from the pro to the hobbyist to the neat to the realistically all-over-the-shop, and there’s a great smattering of dog shots too, if…
Milan-based studio La Tigre has been running for some years now—it set up shop back in 2009—and recently got in touch to show off a raft of gorgeous new print pieces. Founded and directed by Luisa Milani and Walter Molteni, the studio describes its focus as “research-based,” closely collaborating with…
Rose Wong’s sharp outlines, bold colours and carefully honed compositions delineate her very smart approach to reducing often complex ideas into punchy, dynamic visual narratives. Her work is characterised by its marriage of simplicity and complexity, driven by lines and patterns throughout. It’s little surprise that the Brooklyn-based illustrator has…
Music can do a lot of things. According to Madonna, it makes the people come together; for Missy Elliot it makes you lose control; for Julie Andrews, it’s the very thing that makes the hills alive. ABBA? They’re just bloody grateful for it. And as Hot Chip’ synth botherer Joe…
It’s pretty safe to say that graphic design today wouldn’t be graphic design today without one neat, seemingly simple invention: The Swiss Grid. The term encompasses both the grid itself, and a broader aesthetic also known as the International Typographic Style. Whether or not you love it, loathe it, or…
It’s easy to look at Amber Vittoria’s bright, playful forms and think nothing but happy thoughts. Her use of colour seems so easy and natural; her more abstract pieces so jauntily expressive. But there are more serious underpinnings to her images, and a reason that her works largely focus on…
While Christmas is apparently the most wonderful time of the year, it can also be one of the most confusing: that’s usually largely down to all-hours boozing becoming the norm, and the festive tradition of rendering ourselves catatonic for roughly ten days due having filled ourselves entirely with things that…
Why does feminism matter? Are feminists man-haters? While feminism isn’t a new thing—the official “first wave” was now more than a century ago—questions like this are still being asked, and need to be addressed. Today, feminism is a multifarious thing that often takes many different meanings: one feminist might be…
Over at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco—and online, wherever you are in the world with an internet connection—a new exhibition asks how the visual arts can help marginalised groups “survive and thrive.” The show, titled After Life (We Survive), is billed as “a multimedia…
In a year dominated by the ins and outs of a global pandemic (pangolins, 5G, Dominic Cummings’ eyesight, government-mandated-no-missionary positions, and so on and so forth), it’s pretty easy to forget that all the other Big News items haven’t conveniently sidled off behind flimsy blue masks and resolved themselves. Yup,…
This year’s not been short of news, but one of the saddest and most brutally shocking things to hit the headlines over the summer was the massive explosion that hit Beirut on 4 August. The disaster in the Lebanese capital is said to have caused at least 204 deaths, 6,500…
For the first time in its history, this year’s D&AD Annual has gone digital—and perhaps even more significantly than that, it’s available to everyone—not just a select (relatively small) few who can either afford it, produce work that’s gone into it, or write about it. The 2020 D&AD president Kate…