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…
Phoebe Hall is a Yorkshire-based BA Graphic Design student at Leeds Arts University, and founder of HECTOR design studio. HECTOR specialise in screen printing and digital graphic design, often combining both processes to create a wide range of digital representation for live briefs, collaborations, client briefs, and personal projects. Phoebe…
As with pretty much everything else we used to experience IRL, the current work in progress show from the Royal College of Art in London was forced to move online as a digital platform for the first time. But rather than see that as a problematic measure, the students and…
Georgie Estill is a Graphic Artist, Designer and Printmaker based in Robin Hood’s Bay on the North East coastline of Yorkshire. She graduated from Winchester School of Art in 2018 holding a first class BA with honours in Graphic Arts, specialising in Graphic Design. Her work mostly tackles cultural and…
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…
Characterised by minimal shapes in the form of explorative composition collages is the work of London-based visual artist Olga Casanova. After studying Interior Design and recently graduated with a degree in Graphic Design, Casanova worked for years in the digital design field. She soon swapped this for print. Casanova tells…
Characterised by bold colours and a playful use of shape and negative space is illustrator and designer, Sebastian Burnett. Having studied Graphic Design at York College for two years, then going onto study at Leeds Beckett Graphic Arts & Design for another three years, his skills as an illustrator and…
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…
Jamie Edler is an illustrator that lives in London. His work is mostly digital and print based. Although his illustrations are made with beautiful soft palettes, full of pastel and washed out colours – Jamie tackles through his drawings more serious issues such as mental health and everyday struggles. Humour…
Jasmin Javed graduated from UCA with a BA in Textiles for Fashion and Interior, where she specialised in printed textiles. Her work in an opportunity to explore and reconnect with her cultural heritage, her German and Pakistani identity. She has always felt torn between her diverse mix of cultures, feeling…
Creating mystical, feminine and fabulously bold work is Latvian illustrator, graphic designer and printmaker Agnese Taurina. Printing being her favourite mode of expression and signature medium, the designer takes her audience to a sensual and magical world.
Charlie Soffe has created a beautifully printed zine as a vessel of thought. As he interacted with the city of Birmingham, he recorded the results with analogue photography and collage. Charlie “wanted to create a sense of collective thought and fragmentation to portray the city in a new light, moving…
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…
Truth is, we all rely on some degree of self-promotion if we desire to make a living from art, design, and other creative activities. Creativepool is one of the world’s largest online networks set up with an aim to build bridges between international creative companies and individual talents from across…
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…
For those of you who are seeking employment, you might want to stop googling for an ultimate guide to writing artful emails for a bit and read this useful tip for fine-tuning your job search skills from New North Press’s partner and typography fanatic ‘Beatrice Bless’. In reality, we might…