Applications for the 2022 London Illustration Fair (LIF) are now open! LIF are looking for bright, young budding illustrators, artists and creatives to help them come back with a bang for this year’s event, taking place from 1/12 to 5/12 2022. After two missed years they are returning to London’s…
Showcase alongside the best in international contemporary printmaking at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (WCPF) 2022! WCPF, the UK’s largest celebration of contemporary print, is calling all early and mid-career independent artists to enter their open-call. Artists working with an original printmaking medium can submit works for their November Fair and…
PINBADG.ES have launched a design competition to celebrate reaching 1000 followers on Instagram. To enter, simply sketch up a design you would love to see as an enamel pin and email it over to the team. The winners will receive 50 hard or soft enamel pins with a card backer. The…
For it’s third annual brief, this year the “Im–print! Im–press!” live-brief challenged second year students at Ravensbourne University to propose a design that celebrates the materiality and physicality of print through paper, foil and print production. Set in collaboration with Baddeley Brothers, G. F. Smith and Foilco, the brief encouraged students to widely…
This is a shout-out to all artists, illustrators, designers and creatives to join Damn Fine Print’s big annual end of year show. Each year they try to push the boundaries of design and showcase some of the creative talent that’s out there. The theme for this year’s show is CULTURE.…
We have joined forces with Print on Paper, to bring you the Folio Zine Awards 2017. This is an amazing opportunity for you to showcase your creativity and layout skills by using a Zine as the perfect portfolio. We have selected a panel of expert judges made up of industry…
Another year down and the winners of D&AD New Blood Awards have been announced! The judges applaud the amount of raw talent that was unearthed throughout each brief, with the total of 173 Pencils awarded across the board. The New Blood Awards are a platform for students and other new…
For those not familiar with D&AD, this non-profit organisation has been inspiring a community of creative thinkers by celebrating and stimulating the finest in design and advertising since 1962. A D&AD Pencil is recognised globally as the ultimate creative accolade; the Awards entered and attended by the best creative decision…
Wednesday night on the Embankment, on the top floor of the iconic Shell building, and thirty young student designers and illustrators are awaiting the results of the 10th Penguin Random House Design Award competition. Earlier this year, students around the UK and the world were asked to design book jackets…
The search for the best, young print designers is now over. Huge congratulations to recent graduate, artist and printmaker Daniel Fletcher who has just been crowned as the winner of People of Print’s Graduate Print Awards 2015. The enormous enthusiasm for producing top-quality artwork is evidenced through a series of…
Second place in this year’s Graduate Print Awards is the talented RCA graduate Edén Barrena. Edén impressed us with her pioneering use of lithography. Her series of striking prints is a result from her close observation and hands-on experiments in different printing techniques, drawing, and bookmaking. One of her primary…
Third place goes to Ruairi Fallon McGuigan who just completed his BA Illustration course with a first-class honours degree at Camberwell College of Art. We were awed by Ruairi’s woodcut prints that display such a professional quality. Along with great passion for crafts and illustration, Ruairi successfully demonstrates his exceptional…
The search for the best emerging print designers has come to an exciting close and today it’s our sincere pleasure to announce the Top 10. Considered as one of our most inspiring annual gatherings of young creatives, the competition is now in its second year and we are very lucky…
The annual Graduate Print Awards celebrate and honour excellence in print design. With a record-breaking number of entries this year, we received hundreds of wonderful projects from recent graduates from many different countries across the globe. We hope and aim to recognise the up-and-coming talents that have put time and…
Now in our second year, we had tougher decisions than ever before. Huge thanks to all the print enthusiasts who submitted their amazing work to the Graduate Print Awards 2015. We have seen all print techniques imaginable, old and new, and various different styles that were adopted to ensure the…
We met Lawrence Slater at this year’s ELCAF, where he told us about his DIY home screen-print studio that he shares with his brother. We immediately told him to get in touch and send us some process shots so you could all see how to do this yourselves. All you…
Graduating this year? Then this is your chance to win an amazing array of prizes that will benefit your creative career path. The graduate season is here and People of Print are pleased to announce that our annual call for submissions is now open. If you’re a graphic designer, illustrator,…
Print Club London are excited to present an exclusive exhibition to mark the re-launch of their fantastic Print Club Gallery located in the heart of Dalston. Titled ‘Lost and Found’ the show will bring together a diverse collective of Print Club artists from varying backgrounds showcasing a selection of illustrative…
Our buddies over at Crumb Cabin are launching a not-for-profit, duotone Riso poster competition project called Pick Up a Crumb, which will run once a month for six months with a resulting exhibition. Submissions for the first month will start from April 1st, with the deadline being April 29th. At…
Today marks the day that the Royal Mint uncover the fifth coinage portrait of Her Majesty The Queen, which will soon take pride of place on United Kingdom coins. Since the Queen’s accession to the throne in 1952, there have been a very small number of portraits appearing on the…