Louisville-based printmaker Emily Ciecka creates her largest and most complex reduction print to date, a five-layer piece featuring a Killdeer protecting her chicks in a field of poppies, inspired by a friend’s story of watching over a nesting bird during a difficult time. A friend sent Emily Ciecka a photograph…
New York-based Indian designer Seher Anand creates a research-led printed book that examines migration through architecture, passports, border systems, national symbols and carried objects, treating every design decision as part of the narrative it is building. The frustration that generated Migrant Landscape was specific: migration is too often framed as…
Quebec printmaker Sonia Landry, working as La Hache, creates a limited edition print inspired by wave patterns on the sand of the Côte-Nord coast, layering sheet music beneath fluid curves printed in a gradient from phthalo blue to fluorescent lime green. It was a walk along a beach on Quebec’s…
Factory Originals publishes a limited edition numbered memoir from former Motörhead PA Dan Hawcroft, pairing raw rock ‘n’ roll storytelling with print design by ZIP Design, a handmade slipcase by W MacCarthy and Sons, GF Smith Colorplan endpapers, commissioned illustrations and over five hours of companion podcast. Dan Hawcroft spent…
Athens-based art director and painter Christie Photopoulou creates handmade greeting cards for the Maria Callas Museum gift shop, drawing the colours, atmosphere and feeling of the museum’s three opera rooms directly into one-of-a-kind acrylic mini paintings. Christie Photopoulou was given access to the Maria Callas Museum in Athens after hours,…
Transmedia artist, researcher and Assistant Professor Feixue Mei reimagines the myth of Mulan as a visual inquiry into the lives of women from China’s post-one-child-policy generation, exploring the double-bind between professional achievement and domestic tradition through hybrid physical and digital storytelling. The myth of Mulan has always been about performance:…
London-based printmaker Oceana Masterman-Smith transforms paper into tactile sculpture through blind embossing, hand-carving designs into lino and pressing them into relief to create prints that shift and change as light moves across their surface. Most prints are read through ink. Oceana Masterman-Smith’s prints are read through light. Blind embossing is…
German graffiti artist DADU Werkstatt and Manchester-based street photographer Milica merge real urban photography with illustrated geometric characters, turning static city scenes into living environments where structured reality meets playful, character-driven intervention. The collaboration began with an open call. Street photographer Milica posted on Instagram inviting artists to fuse their…
Athens-based design studio Sputnik reimagines the printed brochure as a puzzle for a physical rehabilitation practice, cutting four typographic layouts in half, mixing the pieces and placing them inside each other so patients can experience the satisfaction of reassembly. The idea is precise in its logic. REHAB is a physical…
New York-based Thai graphic designer Supatida Sutiratana develops an experimental risograph poster series that transforms emotional entrapment, regret and affection into fragmented typographic compositions that sit between language and feeling. The word trap tends to carry a single meaning: something bad. Supatida Sutiratana is more interested in the ambivalence. “TRAP…
California-based South Asian visual artist Sneha Gindodiya paints a woman reaching toward a fading Persian and Kashmiri rug, building layered acrylic surfaces that dissolve as deliberately as the cultural memories they hold. Textiles are portable histories. Persian and Kashmiri rugs carry stories of labour, geometry and devotion across generations and…
Art director Sergey Zhigarev brings the printed matchday programme back to a Russian football club, pairing a strict typographic identity with a season-long series of illustrated posters that have grown from club publication into a recognisable visual language in their own right. The printed matchday programme has been quietly disappearing.…
Moscow-based illustrator Pashoot Ka creates a series of Procreate illustrations about Peter the Stone, a character who never moves while the world around him constantly changes, drawing from a found stone and a period of personal anxiety to build something quietly philosophical and quietly funny. In 2023, Pashoot Ka found…
Brighton-based printmaker John Parkinson, known as Parky, brings colour and community spirit to a new junction in East Brighton, incorporating Edward Bawden-influenced angular forms and the graphic plant language of Angie Lewin into a spray-painted celebration of local life. Where Whitehawk and Kemptown meet, the road layout has changed. Through-traffic…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Croatian graphic designer and visual artist Ivan Križan develops a series of digitally printed art photographs that isolate details from natural forms, placing them on the boundary between abstraction and figuration and rethinking what abstraction actually means. The word abstract is commonly used in art to mean something unreal, something…
Dublin-based printmaker Eimearjean McCormack presents a new series of fifty-eight limited edition risograph prints on Munken Paper, recently exhibited at The Royal Hibernian Academy, exploring the intersection of lived experience, memory and imagination through layered impressions of the natural world. The space Eimearjean McCormack works in is, by her own…
French, London-based artist Delphine Lebourgeois launches four limited edition prints that send flower-armoured rocket ballerinas into battle, each one hiding a small inner child beneath the defence. Delphine Lebourgeois’s warrior women have always moved as a troop. The Ballerina Collection sends four new recruits to join them, each one armed…
Greek art studio 11 Modern Muses, founded by Alexandra Tiligadi in Patras, extends four years of planner design into an undated collection that blends psychology, poetry and structure for people who don’t use a planner every day but want somewhere meaningful to land when they do. Not everyone uses a…
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…