Brighton based Rivan’s creates playful utopias and overwhelms us with the meticulous compositions of her prints, which draw inspiration from psychological teachings, vintage hollywood films, Hitchcock and Sci-Fi, amongst other things! Her jewellery designer past is evident in the hugely intricate and time consuming way in which she selects and…
Ceramicist Dana Bechert uses a variation of the traditional Acoma Pueblo style of native american pottery decoration, and her beautiful, monochrome, graphic designs cover pots, vases coffee funnels and even beehives. It can take her seven hours to complete the carving on a single piece, but she thinks of her…
American street art and popular culture phenomenon Keith Haring’s legacy is living on after his untimely death in 1990 through collaboration with trainer superstars Reebok. Using imagery from the Haring mural ‘Crack is Wack’ painted in 1986 in East Harlem, the bright, illustrated collaboration dropped this month – not for…
On Friday night, Iklect and Radulthood presented ‘Grip Thumb’ at Brighton’s B RAD gallery, an event to celebrate the creative and cultural significance of grip art in contemporary Illustration and Print, not to mention youth culture. Featuring boards and designs as well as rad goodies, posters and t-shirts designed and…
Brighton based solo artist Bonny and Clyde has been getting a lot of hype recently for her beautifully constructed collages, often featuring architecture, nature and human forms, recently inspired by her travels through the Americas. Many have been converted into screen prints, but all are beautifully composed in similar sugary…
Potentially my new favourite illustrator, I am obsessed with Japanese artist Yoko Honda’s homages to all things 80’s. Through a combination of digital painting and print, she constructs scenes of resplendent kitsch, made up of palm trees, motels, neon signs and swimming pools, all inter-dispersed with structured lines, tiles or…
American artist Martincic lives and works in Columbia, Missouri, and is immersively interested in environments associated with water, (eg. pools, shower stalls) and how we relate to these spaces and the various forms of privacy they offer. She explores these interests through an impressively broad range of traditional print techniques,…
If you missed the East End Debut of Lucy Sparrow’s ‘Cornershop’ but heard all about it’s resounding success, then here’s your chance to see it again, under a slightly tweaked name, at the private view on Friday 3rd October, 6-9pm at No Walls Gallery, 114 Church St, Brighton. The exhibition…
Brighton based british photographer Ewen Spencer is best known for his work with Mike Skinner of ‘The Streets’, videos he has produced for Massive Attack or perhaps his critically acclaimed documentary short film ‘Brandy and Coke’, which follows the underground garage rave scene in the 90s, and some of the…
A product of Michael Roger Press, a family press started by the current owners great grandfather, Decomposition books are an illustrated twist on the classic composition notebook – one of the most recognisable pieces of american stationary and the college students staple workbook. These versions however, are made in the…
You may have seen the feature we ran supporting the Kickstarter campaign for Taint Magazine a few months back, and now that issue one is hot off the press we fancied revisiting the pair behind the project, Anna and Niall, to see what they’ve learnt, and more importantly, what’s next.…
A graduate of both Glasgow and Chelsea schools of art, Linzie Hunter is renowned for her digital illustration and lettering work, although when away from the computer she enjoys traditional printmaking. Having worked with clients as impressive as Nike, Harper Collins, Time Magazine and the Guardian, her commercial work, such…
Fantastically detailed pen drawings and etchings from french Central St Martins graduate Octave Marsal. His architectural explorations into human nature are both imaginatively psychedelic and painstakingly accurately rendered. He can often be found collaborating with his long term artistic partner, the sculptor and photographer Theo De Gueltzl, whom he shares…
This month brings the publication all the dog loving creatives out there have been waiting for, the first of its kind Four and Sons, hailing from Australia. Four claims to be ‘where dogs and culture collide’, and features art, illustration, photography, fashion, design, interiors and everything in between, all from…
‘Bottled by Mermaids, Relished by men!’ – This beautiful limited edition release of Classic Aquavit has been designed and packaged into a covetable, collectable object, as well as remaining a classic Norwegian tipple. In true Nordic style, the spirit now offers four tasteful variations on nautical themes, all featuring aquatic…
John Parkinson, or ‘Parky’, is a Brighton-based illustrator, printmaker and rather impressive street artist. Multi disciplinary, his techniques, materials, colour choices and surfaces are ever changing, but his experimental, self-challenging style all-permeating. Aside from his many characters discoverable around Brighton walls and the rest of the UK, works of particular…
Sam Chirnside is an Australian Graphic Designer and artist based in New York, who’s clients include established giants such as Volcom and Converse in amongst the independent record labels and underground start-up fashion brands. His work has a strong typographic influence, evident in his unique branding and logo work, However…
Ethel Vaughn, the brainchild of Hamburg-based designer Katrin Diedrich since 2010, has been grabbing more and more attention and acclaim on the underground scene in the last few years for it’s avante garde, 90’s sportswear-inspired aesthetic with a strong focus on printed graphics. However the latest collection, ‘Gangs of St…
Newly opened menswear mecca in the stylish regency town of Cheltenham The Union Project certainly live up to their manifesto : ‘Simple Things done Well’. Started in November by two local University graduates with an eye for design, the shop pushes beautifully made lifestyle accessories such as notebooks by Field…
Based in San Fransisco, In Haus is the baby of self taught letterpress artist Treasa Ewing. She describes her process as ‘slow printing’, which essentially means she sets all the type by hand, feeds in each sheet of paper individually and cuts everything down herself to finish. In Haus has…