For its tenth edition, the Independent Paper Show moves north for the first time, landing at Soho House Manchester on June 9 and 10, 2026, with the industry’s most important paper producers, suppliers and makers under one roof. Tickets are free. There is something fitting about the Independent Paper Show…
Chinese-American contemporary spiritual artist Fung Cheung paints dreams, visions and psychedelic experience onto found mirrors in a solo show at Nepenthes New York, making the invisible spiritual dimension directly visible in the physical world. Every mirror Fung Cheung paints on is a found one. The decision is deliberate: rather than…
Denver-based lowbrow pop surrealist Blood & Gold reverses the production process, creating digital designs first and working backwards into linocut block prints to make something no machine reproduction could replicate: evidence of human hands. Blood & Gold builds his designs on an iPad first. Then, instead of sending them to…
Manchester-born, internationally-formed designer Patricia Shea has spent a lifetime developing a colour-saturated, maximalist pattern practice that began with watercolour on paper in New York and now exists across fabric, wallcoverings and digital print on demand. Patricia Shea did not set out to develop a unique style. “Developing a unique style…
Brooklyn-based artist PD Packard transforms flat printed kozo paper into three-dimensional pleated sculptures, combining printmaking, Japanese bookbinding and origami structure to create dynamic forms that expand the printed surface into space. A print, conventionally, stays flat. PD Packard’s work begins where that convention ends. Starting with original patterns designed and…
Mumbai-based illustrator Ayushi Saria redesigns a deck of Indian playing cards from 1922, reclaiming the format through a modern Indian lens that celebrates brown skin, architectural heritage and the royalty of contemporary India. In 1922, a deck of playing cards called the Dilkhus was printed in India. The artwork was…
London-based graphic designer and illustrator Višnja Ostojić has been building an ongoing illustrated portrait of the city since 2019, drawing pubs, streets and statues in vibrant, detailed iPad illustration that captures London as she has come to know it. When Višnja Ostojić moved from the Netherlands to London in 2019,…
Berlin publisher TOC marks its tenth edition with a letterpress Tenth of December that pairs Zuzana Licko’s Filosophia with a deliberately chaotic set of chapter heading typefaces, combining optical illusion bookmaking with a typography that honours, then gleefully disrupts, Saunders’ own narrative spirit. Tenth of December is the tenth edition…
Multidisciplinary visual artist Omisha Gandhi builds a cartoon world around a girl stuck inside her own mind, using the perceived lightness of the form to hold complex questions about perception, identity and lived experience. Cartoons make people lower their guard. That is, for Omisha Gandhi, precisely the point. “Cartoons are…
Northern Israel-based printmaker Haviva Seligson carves and hand-prints a figure mid-breath in a wild landscape, making a linocut that treats the act of printing itself as inseparable from the meaning it carries. The shofar is one of the oldest ritual instruments in existence, its sound shaped entirely by the body…
Sydney-based collage artist and designer Yeara Chaham asks whether a feeling from music can become an artwork, building a mixed media composition from scanned pearls, magazine fragments and cool blue tones to translate the particular atmosphere of Sade into something you can see. The starting point was a question: can…
British-Canadian graphic designer and illustrator Aysha Lilani merges East African heritage with snowboarding culture in Kichizi, a bold board graphic selected by Gilson Snow for their 2026 lineup that takes its name from a Kenyan word for mindset over struggle. The word came from a tour guide in Kenya, on…
Deliberate/Deliberate, a joint exhibition at Graphic Studio Gallery in Dublin, brought together two printmakers whose practices share a commitment to process, restraint and the slow emergence of meaning through structure and deviation. It can be rather calming, observing work that asks you to look slowly. Deliberate/Deliberate, which ran at Graphic…
English-Italian editor, photographer and founder Elena Fazzino has built Garden Party Magazine from a private Instagram account into an independently published, community-led print publication that asks its readers to slow down and pay attention. The name came first. Garden Party was a private Instagram account Elena Fazzino started around 2017,…
Boston-based artist Ellen Shattuck Pierce combines relief cut, tinted cyanotype and embossing into a handprinted wallpaper that holds grief and renewal in the same frame, drawing on the cycles of winter to reckon with the hardest kind of year. Winter has a particular quality of honesty. The burnt umber remains…
Abigail and Phebe Cameron transform shared childhood memory into bold, layered screen print, sculpture and installation, asking how much of the inner child survives the journey into adulthood. You’re walking into a room full of toys and sweets, and suddenly, you realise you are not entirely comfortable… That is the…
After a decade of growth, the French type foundry rebuilds from the ground up. After a decade of shaping contemporary type design, Blaze Type has launched a completely rebuilt version of its website. More than just a visual refresh, the new platform is a considered response to the realities of…
Tucked into the landscape of the Lake District, just outside Kendal, sits something extraordinary.James Cropper has been making paper here since 1845, on the same site, powered by the same surrounding environment, and driven by the same obsession with craft, colour, and innovation. And once a month, they open the…
Insights from People of Print member Maxim Print It’s often the finishing touches that make people stop, pick something up, and take a second look. A sharp edge, a precise cut, a surface that’s been etched, engraved, or sculpted into something unexpected. At Maxim Print, they’ve always believed that print…
Lisa Goebel, also known as The Naughty District, is a freelance communication designer and illustrator whose work blends analogue print processes with digital experimentation. Since launching her independent practice in 2022, her illustrations and printed works have been exhibited in cities including Berlin, London and Madrid. At the centre of…