Will Mower’s latest project takes the form of generative art, examining the fixed nature of flag iconography and the symbolic associations we attach to their designs. Using a basic set of design rules governing colour, shape, and layout, the code generates flags at random. Each flag is then arbitrarily assigned…
Jacek Ambroszczyk is a Linocut and experimental artist. He has always been fascinated by the idea of realism in art, and since he has started working with lino, Jacek has been trying to transfer this idea to the medium. Recently, Jacek has been experimenting with animation combined with the process…
Mat Voyce, the UK-based type-designer and 2D type animator recently worked with ESPN on a collection of 2D typography for promo in the US. The project was initiated when Mat was approached directly by an agency who had seen his work online and wanted to get him involved. The talented…
Feelings: An invitation to look inside is an evocative and heartfelt animated masterpiece crafted by State – a global Creative Studio with an unrestrained passion for heartfelt ideas, unique experiences, and sleek design. The film, which was created for the main titles of Offf Festival 2023 in Barcelona, delves into…
While completing her Masters in Illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University, animator and illustrator Rachael Abbott started to focus more on hand-painted frame by frame animations, and less on the linocut animated GIFs she made during lockdown. “It wasn’t until I was approached by Salford Slow Fashion CIC to create a…
Originally from Nottingham and now based in Manchester, UK, Sarah Wilson works commercially within editorial and animation, as well as making illustrated prints and products for her own shop. She graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2018 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration with Animation, and went on to…
Ever since it launched in 2016, SOFA magazine has always been as much about images as it is about words. Founded by Ricarda Messner, publisher of Berlin-based Flaneur magazine and co-editor-in-chief Caia Hagel, the magazine was a deliberate riposte to many other indie mags that were around at that time, which…
Like many bands, New York-based post punk outfit Parquet Courts has long straddled both the visual art world and the music scene. The band began life in 2010, with frontman Andrew Savage having met guitarist/keyboard player Austin Brown while both students at the University of North Texas. It was there…
Julia Schimautz, a graphic designer and printmaker based in Cape Town, recently created a fully Riso-printed video for one of musician, Pan Well‘s, latest tracks. Performed and recorded in Pan Well’s bedroom, Every Thought You’ve Ever Had is essentially about that – one’s thoughts, emotions, and feelings that come rushing all…
Recent Yale graduate Orysia Zabeida has had an interesting journey: currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, she grew up on the island of Montreal in Canada, and was born in a coal-mining town called Tchervonograd (which literally translates to “the-red-town”) in western Ukraine. She’s managed to achieve a lot in…
We’ve been following the career of Indian-born designer and art director Simoul Alva for a few years now, and her tenacity and talent never fails to impress us. Now based in New York and working across identity design, storytelling and visual strategy. She’s previously worked with Pentagram, Sagmeister & Walsh,…
While traditional in-person degree shows were still off-limits this year, the beauty of having them all online was that it opened everything up to all of us to have a little virtual wander round some outstanding work from some of the country’s most interesting design students. The RCA visual communication…
Completed Netflix, binged through every single (free) series of Ex On the Beach on Amazon Prime? While we’re still sort of/mostly locked down, it’s about time we (by which I mean, I) consumed some decent, informative, or at least beautiful moving image, and what better way than on the incredible…
Austrian-born and Cape Town-based graphic designer Julia Schimautz’s latest works are an exploration of optical illusion and animation through the medium of Riso printing. Julia is currently part of the team at Riso studio Dream Press, where her work is guided by her love for “the beauty in imperfection and…
Abi Fairhurst is a Printmaker based in Manchester, UK. She has been creating and producing designs under her label, Abi Prints, over the past year. Her work embraces a wide range of styles and influences, from minimalistic vector art as seen in her Risograph pieces, to excessive, neon-drenched, screen printed…
It’s hard not to love Rosa Kusabbi’s work, and her attitude: first, we were taken with the cursor on her website (just go there if you haven’t already, and point at things); then, we were even more taken by the fact her dissertation pieces were animations of a duo of…
Originally from Poland and now based in Manchester, UK, Danielle Rhoda is an illustrator, animator, and “maker of things“. Danielle’s work documents and catalogues “certain moments” she has witnessed, reflecting the people she sees in everyday life, her travels, and her surroundings. Graduating from Manchester School of Art in 2018…
Like so many illustrators and designers, it was music that shunted art as a hobby into art as a career for Tom Kariv. However, unlike so many, he’s since worked with the likes of Major Lazer, Chronixx, Walshy Fire, Lil Dicky, Stones Throw Records, Raw Tapes Records and Guns n…
Originally hailing from the London suburbs, Joey Yu has long lived and illustrated by the mantra “it’s cool to work hard.” She’s said before that it’s a value that was instilled in her by her parents, and it’s paid off: Yu counts Nike, Hermes and Rimowa as clients, has had…
The bright colours, no-nonsense black outlines and playful but thoroughly flat style of Andrea Chronopoulos’ work make it both distinctive and part of a modern tradition in illustration that we see a fair bit, but which is deceptively tricky to get right. In the correct hands, however, that flattened look—all…