Animation

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…

London-Based 2D Animator and Director, Caitlin McCarthy, studied Illustration at Camberwell, where she first began her foray into the creation of strange video art (a metre-wide silicone slice of ham, for instance). Today, she works as a director on commercials and videos for brands, alongside her personal projects. Upon graduating…

There’s no doubt that Berlin is home to the weirdest stories. So, it’s safe to say that; in Berlin, only animation beats reality. For the Festival of Animation Berlin, art director Bruno Oppido and his colleagues have brought to life some of Berlin’s craziest true stories. The team developed a…

Whoopi Goldberg has teamed up with Extinction Rebellion in a beautiful new animation set in the future. The Gigantic Change is a stunning 3 minute film with animations by Nicola Jane Francis. The film was launched as part of World Environment Day, and is a story of hope set in…

For her latest series, linocut printmaker and animator, Rachael Abbott, took inspiration from the process of analogue photography. Since she began creating lino animations, Rachael has experimented with different forms of movement. The majority of her work has previously focused on travel, and moving an object across the screen, however…

After creating her first lino print in 2016, Rachael Abbott became hooked, using printmaking as a form of therapy, as well as a creative outlet. At the time she was studying an undergraduate degree in Graphic Design at The University of Salford, specialising in Illustration, enabling her to develop her…

Micke’s confident hand and unapologetic choice of chromatically lush material’s, such as Posca pens, dense acrylic and riso inks, reward his audience with a visually delightful series of hand-generated arrangements. His abstract ‘Shapes Parties’ make use of balance, colour & contrast to showcase his masterful embrace of the primary palette. The bright and…

Ashley Back is a motion designer currently based in London, working primarily on 2D animation, character animation, collage animation and art direction. She also works at Studio Moross. Ashley studied for a BA in fashion print at Central Saint Martins, but graduated with a degree in Motion Creative at Hyper…

Michael Hersrud is a graphic artist, surface designer and 2D animator. Michael is also known to dabble in experimental electronic music. He graduated with an MFA from RISD in 2006, and is currently an associate professor of graphic design at the international branch campus of VCUArts in Qatar. Michael, originally…

Formplay is an animation studio focused on creating simple, characterful animations, inspired by play. It’s the sense of fun that has led to a range of intriguing projects for some of the world’s best-known commercial brands, from Wall St Journal to Atlantic Records. The Brighton studio was founded in 2017…

INTERPLAY is a soon-to-open exhibition curated by artist consultancy POKO featuring a series of 26 paintings that include four collections of hand-painted works on paper by Australian artist Playmetric, aka Colin Bigelow. Originally from Australia, Colin now calls London home, and for the past 11 years, he has worked as…

Zhong Xian is an artist, freelance illustrator, animator and new People of Print Member based in Taipei. Studying in philosophy at university, most of her works focus on conveying emotions as well as including philosophy ideas and human experience in her illustration and animations. The sense of wildness, nature and…

Coming from all the way from Brazil new People of Print Member Alessio Perez is an art director based in São Paulo. Formerly a lawyer (weird, but true), Perez graduated in social communication at ESPM-SP and has been working as an art director in advertising agencies and as a freelancer…

Phillip Whitton is a Norwich based artist originally from Cambridge. Music and skateboarding are his main sources of inspiration. As a kid he used to love skateboard graphics and album covers, so he would spend a lot of time drawing his own or copying from existing ones. Philip studied fine art…

Blank Poster is a platform that invites any form of creative to participate in their project of creating a poster from a random generated word. The word given is the common guideline for all the participants, which provides total freedom to all you guys out there. Each participant has a…

The Newspaper Club has collaborated on a video with illustrator Jamie Kirk, creator of the Washed Out colouring zine. Together, they produced stop-motion that brings the possibilities of newsprint to life with Jamie’s signature hand lettering and animation. Jamie also created a behind-the-scenes video where he talks about his process…

Dividing her time between London and Barcelona, Bulgarian Illustrator and Animator – Rozalina Burkova originally moved to London to study Fashion at Central Saint Martins College where she graduated in 2015.