Pennsylvania-based mixed media artist and designer Christina Galbiati cuts, tears and overlaps individual Helvetica letters into dense xerographic collages on board, building compositions from mundane expressions like “Blah,” “Ugh” and “Hmm” to explore sensory overload, capitalism and the irreplaceable value of the human hand. Christina Galbiati could do this digitally.…
Brighton-based artist Beth Gibbons takes a single work and asks how many forms it can inhabit simultaneously, existing as a silkscreen print, a 3D-printed object, a projection and a photographic print, challenging the fixed hierarchies that confine art to one context or one value. The text arrived in her sleep:…
Manchester-based conceptual illustrator and lifelong pacemaker patient Ollie Hirst creates a series of hand-drawn editorial illustrations for BBC Science Focus on the times AI has failed spectacularly, using cyberpunk neons against greyscale to put human emotion at the heart of a story about machine trust. The brief was precise and…
Design and creative director Raphael O’Selle has spent five years developing XIAI, a sci-fi comic universe rooted in memory, ancestry and identity, launching openly online ahead of a Kickstarter campaign for Book One in September 2026. The question came from watching. Raphael O’Selle grew up on Ghost in the Shell,…
UK-based food photographer, stylist and art director Costas Millas creates a 64-page limited edition art book of conceptual food photography using only black and white subjects, hand-sewn with an exposed spine, as a deliberate act of craft in a world increasingly shaped by content and AI generation. Costas Millas became…
NTU Associate Professor and DEVIL Lab founder Lisa Winstanley brings together three designers from three continents in a 156-page limited edition publication that is part manifesto, part archive, part research, and designed to be torn apart and used. The dust jacket is neon orange and purple. The cover beneath it…
Colorado-based graphic designer, lettering artist and illustrator Katie Sturgis creates a hand-lettered piece after her design job is replaced by AI, arguing for the inherent value of human creativity and turning it into a product she never planned to make. Katie Sturgis’s graphic design job was replaced by AI. Her…
German graffiti artist DADU Werkstatt and Manchester-based street photographer Milica merge real urban photography with illustrated geometric characters, turning static city scenes into living environments where structured reality meets playful, character-driven intervention. The collaboration began with an open call. Street photographer Milica posted on Instagram inviting artists to fuse their…
Independent brand designer Izzy Poirier leads a large-scale editorial project between the Ottawa Design Club and New York Design Club, building a story-led publication with silver and clear inks, lenticular inserts and a typographic system that mirrors the project’s core idea: meaning that is not immediately visible but revealed through…
Athens-based design studio Sputnik reimagines the printed brochure as a puzzle for a physical rehabilitation practice, cutting four typographic layouts in half, mixing the pieces and placing them inside each other so patients can experience the satisfaction of reassembly. The idea is precise in its logic. REHAB is a physical…
New York-based Thai graphic designer Supatida Sutiratana develops an experimental risograph poster series that transforms emotional entrapment, regret and affection into fragmented typographic compositions that sit between language and feeling. The word trap tends to carry a single meaning: something bad. Supatida Sutiratana is more interested in the ambivalence. “TRAP…
Art director Sergey Zhigarev brings the printed matchday programme back to a Russian football club, pairing a strict typographic identity with a season-long series of illustrated posters that have grown from club publication into a recognisable visual language in their own right. The printed matchday programme has been quietly disappearing.…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Croatian graphic designer and visual artist Ivan Križan develops a series of digitally printed art photographs that isolate details from natural forms, placing them on the boundary between abstraction and figuration and rethinking what abstraction actually means. The word abstract is commonly used in art to mean something unreal, something…
Seattle print artist and art director Ren Riley launches Fable & Fame, an upcycled micro fashion brand that merges medieval manuscripts, tattoo culture and 90s grunge into garments that treat sustainability, locality and the people who wear them as part of the art. Ren Riley and Ryan Axxel met and…
Chennai-based multidisciplinary graphic designer and art director Malavika Natesh builds a self-initiated zine from mixed media collage, typography and personal writing, creating a visual piece that carries meaning rather than just surface appeal. The title is an intimate address. Letter to the World borrows from Emily Dickinson, but Malavika Natesh’s…
Krakow-based graphic designer and creative technologist Mikołaj Pyka uses custom p5.js code to slice photographs into rhythmic, layered fragments, dissolving the familiar into something the eye has to feel rather than read. The brain is fast. Show it a photograph and it categorises before it truly sees: tree, face, street.…
Greek illustrator Nasia Stylidou, aka Decomposition, brings a six-year-old vision to life as an 85-piece holographic screenprint, placing a spiked-armored woman knight at the centre of a collapsing nebula through a collaboration that merges conceptual image-making with meticulous craft. The image of a knight riding into battle is almost always…
At OFFF Festival 2026 in Barcelona, the conversation around creativity felt charged this year. Among the standout voices was Nils Leonard, co-founder of Uncommon Creative Studio, whose talk cut through the noise with a mix of honesty, intensity, and conviction. Uncommon has built a reputation as one of the most…
London-based graphic designer and illustrator Višnja Ostojić has been building an ongoing illustrated portrait of the city since 2019, drawing pubs, streets and statues in vibrant, detailed iPad illustration that captures London as she has come to know it. When Višnja Ostojić moved from the Netherlands to London in 2019,…