Take nine printmakers; young, experienced, and coming from various areas and with different stories. Lock them in the historic print shop in wonderful Venice for 25 hours. Combine it with midnight toasts and legends of the lagoon and you get the 25 Hour Print Challenge, launched by Limerick Printmakers in…
A native Londoner, Marie-Louise Hayward found herself washed up on the shores of Grand Bahama several years ago (a bi-product of marrying a Bahamian). “No post office, no uber, no corner shops, no random chats on the overground, no coffee shops…just miles of empty white sand beaches and turquoise blue…
Meet Rotterdam Art Prints, aka RAP! A new printmakers collective based in the buzzing city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Now with 13 members, they promote local artists, run a webshop with affordable prints, and host networking events to share their love of printmaking with each other and the world. The…
Off the Press Collective (OTPC) is a small artist run screen printing studio based in sunny Suffolk. 5 years ago, 3 friends; Sam, Anna, and James, threw together a bunch of their favourite local artists, both up and coming and established, to celebrate film in their favourite indie cinema, and,…
Underway Studio is an illustration and printmaking collective, now based in Brixton, South London. Founded in 2015, the studio took its name from the Westway flyover under which it found its first home. The four members of Underway Studio work collaboratively on design projects using silkscreen print as a primary…
Social enterprise All SHE Makes was launched with the aim of redressing the underrepresentation of women artists around the world. The platform, designed by Wei-Haas Creative, was created by Svitlana Martynjuk, a Michigan-based artist who was born and raised in Rivne, Ukraine . She says she created All SHE Makes…
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…
The past year or so has been tricky/nightmarish for many of us; especially those businesses or people who rely on events to pay the bills. For some people, that swift removal of reliable income has seen them change lanes, or careers (remember Fatima?), or at the very least, branch out…
Prints n Tha is a brand new artist run, not for profit online gallery championing emerging artists and illustrators based in Liverpool and the North West UK, set up by graphic artist JoMo in 2020. The gallery was set up with the intention to create a space for JoMo and her…
Hidden Hands Collective are a group of artists from different countries, backgrounds, and art disciplines. Working together, they create a wide range of products and homewares using traditional printmaking techniques and digital printing, inspired by folk and traditional art with a modern, contemporary twist. “Working together as a collective, we…
L’Empressee is an online platform dedicated to the supporting of artists and collectors. The online gallery works in collaboration with a curated selection of artists, helping them with the production of their limited edition works, as well as the promotion and sales of their prints, customer relations, and shipping. The…
At the end of June, Poster Rex’s designers Markus Lange and Lars Harmsen were invited to a Risograph Jam Session at the Riso Druckerei drucken3000 in Berlin. llustrators Katia Fouquet and Frank Höhne as well as the Berlin based graphic designer Ariane Spanier were also involved. Over two nights the theme; ‘Woodstock –…
Showcased until the 5th of June, Illustration and Printmaking collective Underway Studio present ‘Printed Spaces: East London Edition’, a fully screen printed show exploring the architecture of London’s cultural spaces. Based in Brixton South London, Underway Studio was founded in 2015 and began its journey with a collective work of…
Realmente Bravo is a graphic design and art direction project that was created back in 2014. Victor and Paula are based in Spain, and created this collaboration in order to do what they and want, making fanzines, photobooks, prints, posters and postcards of our own designs and photographs. They produce…
If you don’t know Chloe Sheppard already, she’s a photographer you certainly need to follow. Her work is soft, dreamy and feminine with a touch a nostalgia. She gets inspired by American movies, Lana Del Rey and the girls of the 90s. poster by Lindsey Baxter Her latest project, ‘Lucky…
Drop Dead is teaming up with the clothing company Akin to provide school uniforms for children in the developing world, so that they can receive the education they deserve and need. Drop Dead was approached by Ben Howells who is the founder of Akin, about working on this project. In most developing…
On Screen, a gallery focused by-product of Australian owned garment printing company, The Print Bar. They are working to shine the spotlight on the abundance of independent print artists that call Brisbane home. With an online store and series of pop-up exhibitions, the creative venture aims to facilitate a new…
September saw another successful year of London’s infamous Design Festival, with crowds of people attending to see some of the best pieces of design there is. It also saw the launch of new exciting design publication Typologie at the Jasper Morrison Shop by the young French designer collective, Collections Typologie.…
Mike Meyer is a sign painter from Mazeppa, a small rural town in Minnesota of approximately 700 habitants. His family has lived there through generations and that’s why he chose it as the home for his business. Mike became interested in painting when he was only a child. He used…
Margaux Hauduc and Océane Carbou began their collective “Groduk & Boucar” whilst they studied engraving at École Estienna in Paris. Originally they were making silly comics about their school life and peers. They went on to complete screen print internships together at SDW Neukölln in Berlin and Jérôme Arcay’s workshop…