Jamming is an imaginary trip to the motorways of 90s Europe, created by Hamburg-based art director, designer, and illustrator, Sebastian König. The book draws inspiration from several journeys to the south – sitting in the back seat – while being stuck. The picture stories take place between stopped cars on…
Lost Bratislava is a Risograph-printed and Japanese hand-bound book made of 30 illustrations, and 1 custom font system, produced in and edition of 850 copies. All in all, the publication took a year to create, with just the printing process lasting an entire three months. This artistic endeavour was made…
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 no doubt that everyone who’s been to art school will see more than a few familiar tropes in Walter Scott’s Wendy, the titular “lovable but messy post-college hipster” of his series of graphic novels. Last summer, Scott published her adventures in self-sabotage (and the Montreal art scene) in the…
Of all forms of visual art, collage makes perfect sense for director Jim Jarmusch. Known for his distinctive brand of darkly comic, staunchly genre-avoidant filmmaking; the works that stand out (to me at least) are those weaved together of disparate but somehow seemingly connected vignettes. His 1991 feature Night on…
It’s likely most of us have heard of Johnny Cash, Fidel Castro and Nick Cave, but Emile Griffith? Not so much. Perhaps that might change, however, thanks to German graphic novelist and illustrator Reinhard Kleist, who having already published books on Cash, Castro and Cave, has now crafted a superb…
Kris Sowersby: The Art of Letters is one of the latest releases from Formist Editions. The paperback, 800 page publication examines type designer Sowersby’s letter drawing practice while considering the characters as independent works of art. Expressing the intersection of art, function and form in type design, the book champions…
While exotic beach holidays are unlikely to be on the horizon for a while yet, a lot of us are planning “staycations”, or at least a little bit of time off for the forthcoming months when we all keep our fingers permanently crossed that the rain holds off. So without…
While there’s been a few long overdue celebrations of women type designers, we’ve not yet come across a comprehensive look at a different issue around gender and type: the relationship between gender stereotypes and letterforms themselves: the relationship between gender stereotypes and letterforms themselves. As the author of a new…
London-based multidisciplinary studio Here Design has managed to sum up the simple pleasures of warm days, cool breezes and gentle sugar rushes in its designs for Gelupo Gelato, a new ice-cream recipe book by chef and restaurateur Jacob Kenedy. Here Design has been collaborating with Kenedy—chef/patron of Bocca di Lupo,…
If there’s anyone who can be billed as having shaped the album cover design of the 2010s (the tens?), it’s Leif Podhajsky. The Australian designer and artist most famously created work for Tame Impala; as well as working with the likes of Foals, The Horrors, Mount Kimbie, Bonobo, Kelis, London…
When Blockforest, the artistic persona of printmaker Mike Black, was asked if his work Call of the Batsquatch could be used on the cover of mythologist and modern-day bard, Dr Martin Shaw’s upcoming book Smoke Hole, he was beyond thrilled. As an artist who draws great inspiration from myth, legend, and…
Amélie du Petit Thouars is a French graphic designer who counts graffiti, collage, cut-up, and the culture of remix as inspiration. She graduated in 2007 with an MA in Art Direction and Graphic Design from Paris school, ESAG-Penninghen. It was during her Erasmus exchange in Prague in 2006 where her…
Čierne Diery (The Black Holes) is a creative project that for the past six years has been engaging and connecting dozens of people and initiatives in Slovakia. As a result, Risograph prints created in collaboration with Slovak visual artists, illustrators, and graphic designers (to date more than 66 authors and…
Little Optimist is a “pocket full of joy” from Dublin-based illustrator Ashwin Chacko. In our current climate, feelings of cabin fever, isolation from our support systems, and a sense of entrapment are prevalent. How do we stay optimistic, when we are faced with such opposition? Ashwin’s answer to this question…
During early lockdown, which is now pretty much exactly an entire year ago, many of us turned to a few things to get through the boring times: snacking, ultimately fleeting forays into things like “sourdough starters”. We turned to Zoom (if we had the bandwidth that day) for a facsimile…
Due to the recent outbreak of STUPIDITY is a little, precious looking artist’s publication by Magdalena Wysocka and Claudio Pogo, the duo behind Outer Space Press. Their art practice is based on collecting and re-contextualising photography, found books, and other archival print material in order to create new visual narratives.…
While Christmas is apparently the most wonderful time of the year, it can also be one of the most confusing: that’s usually largely down to all-hours boozing becoming the norm, and the festive tradition of rendering ourselves catatonic for roughly ten days due having filled ourselves entirely with things that…
Why does feminism matter? Are feminists man-haters? While feminism isn’t a new thing—the official “first wave” was now more than a century ago—questions like this are still being asked, and need to be addressed. Today, feminism is a multifarious thing that often takes many different meanings: one feminist might be…
For the first time in its history, this year’s D&AD Annual has gone digital—and perhaps even more significantly than that, it’s available to everyone—not just a select (relatively small) few who can either afford it, produce work that’s gone into it, or write about it. The 2020 D&AD president Kate…