Nicolas André is a French illustrator, screen printer, painter and editorial designer too. He has a natural skill in combining colour, composition and three-dimensional design. But it’s his screen printed work that really stands out. Whilst creating colour happy prints he also thinks further than the two dimensional, he has…
The design heroes Sagmeister & Walsh have produced some of the most influential graphic design in the last 20 years. Despite the Sagmeister empire only making a partnership with Jessica Walsh in 2012 to form Sagmeister & Walsh, the design agency hasn’t stopped in it’s powerful portfolio of work. Whilst…
The multi-talented Lotta Nieminen is not only a very successful illustrator but also manages her own design studio in New York, curating design projects for some of the biggest brands around. With her design studio she has created exquisite brand redesigns, and with her illustration success, she has created beautiful…
Steffie is freelance illustrator from Paris that spends her days working on a range of personal and client based projects. Her education in graphic design and engraving comes together beautifully in her children’s book, Il a neigé ce matin! (It Snowed Last Night!). The book cleverly combines the subtle benefits…
For 3 days only the Kiosk pop-up bookshop will find its temporary home inside The Peckham Pelican. Run as part of the Art Licks Weekend, the event now in its second year, aims to give a platform to young emerging artists, designers and small press publishers. Kiosk will focus on…
Second place in our Graduate Print Awards 2014 is the amazing Fran Buss. Within our Print Award submissions we received a large amount of printed textile entries, but no one impressed our panel quite as much as Fran. Her screen printed textiles for her graduate show collection have such a…
Our first runner up for the Graduate Print Awards 2014 is the very well-deserved Callum Copley. Callums’ work combines a range of experimental print techniques that not only make for great visually alluring design, but always consider their relationship to the subject matter. Creating a poster for Kinetica Art Fair…
We have handed over our top 20 Graduate Print Award finalists to our panel of judges, to pick out their top ten students. The decision was by no means easy and we wanted to commend all entrants into the awards, and give a special mention for the top 10. We…
On Tuesday 2nd September, Marcroy took to St.Brides Library for what was an evening of print-related talks and panel discussion under the title ‘No end of print?‘ hosted by John L. Walters of Eye Magazine. The night featured Pureprint, New North Press, Hoxton Mini Press, Kin, Calverts, F.E.Burman and People…
It that time of year again when the studios of Print Club London are buzzing with excitement and preparations for Blisters 2014. If you haven’t heard of the exhibition before, it features 40 selected artists each selling an edition of 40 signed original screen prints for £40 each. The exhibition,…
As part of the Shoreditch Design Triangle and the London Design Festival, Tooled Up is a group exhibition featuring a range of great international artists in a exhibition to celebrate creativity, craft and skill. The artists where asked to take one recognisable tool of craft and transform it into a…
Whilst completing a residency at the printing workshop Nicole Crème, artist and illustration Aurélien Débat created the ‘Tamponville’ project. Although the project name could be misinterpreted in English, the word tampon in French actually translates to rubber stamps! And this is exactly what the project was literally built with. Using…
Hanna has just been commended with one of this years YCN Professional Design Awards, and its not hard to see why. Her packaging design for Swedish deli, Fika, features designs as charming as all of her other work. Delicate choice of colours and shapes give her work a Matisse feel,…
Who else loves nothing more than a lovely bit of well considered packaging? Well, the products of The Printed Peanut is just one of those delights. Designer Louise Lockhart started The Printed Peanut when she realised there was a niche in the market for quality, well designed party games and…
Robin van Wijk is a graphic designer, currently living in The Hague, The Netherlands. Just out of university he has built up an impressive collection of large scale screen prints and has had already had his worked featured in external exhibitions. A clearly well developed screen printer he has also…
Norwegian illustrator Bjørn has a collection of rather varied but exciting work. From restaurant menu designs to editorial illustrations, and more recently repeat fabric pattern design, he isn’t one to turn down an opportunity. Whereas his outcomes may vary the traits of his style and personality always shine through. Character…
There are few times that you get to see the work of so many great paper cut artist in one place, but to coincide with the release of his first book Owen Gildersleeve has done just that. We went down to the event launch at The Proud Archivist in Haggerston,…
French London based designer and illustrator Lucille has been working from her East London studio since 2008 after she graduated from Central Saint Martins. Her work has developed over the years and where she used to just use screen printing as a means of production it has now become a…
Toni Halonen produces cracking imagery that although simple, packs a lot of punch. He has produced work for big clients including Kenzo, Nokia and the Design Museum Finland, whilst retaining his unique style. Nailing his strong visual identity so well he is bound to do well, and we will be…
Camberwell graduate Chloe Greenfield was one of the stand-out students for me this summer. Her work at the Camberwell College degree show was confident and bold, and displayed high quality outcomes in screen print, riso and ceramics. I had chat to her about why her dream studio would be in…