For their 2026 festival campaign, OFFF Barcelona partnered with London and New York creative studio Uncommon to develop Cultured, a living design identity literally grown from the biological traces of the creative community it represents. The premise is quietly audacious. Uncommon invited members of the creative community into their London…
Brighton-based freelance graphic designer Dan Smith creates bold, skate-led apparel graphics for one of London’s oldest and most storied skate shops, drawing on half a century of heritage and the resilience embedded in the culture itself. Slick Willies has been a cornerstone of the London skate scene since the 1970s.…
Few studios operate with the clarity and consistency of Stockholm Design Lab. Founded in 1998, the Stockholm-based practice has built a reputation as one of Europe’s most respected design studios, shaping brands through work that spans identity systems, packaging, typography, environments, and print. At the centre of it all is…
Brighton-based writer and designer Phoebe Wellsted turned post-graduation uncertainty into a virtual magazine that now gives women and LGBTQ+ creatives a platform to share their work, their voices and their talents across five issues and counting. It started with an Instagram account and a column that never quite launched. Phoebe…
Venezuelan-born designer Germán Castellanos rebuilds a Dominican street kiosk from scratch to create a participatory installation that celebrates working-class culture, sonic density and the intelligence embedded in everyday life. Distance has a way of clarifying what proximity makes invisible. Germán Castellanos developed La Paletera as his undergraduate thesis at Parsons…
French graphic designer Madison Rengnez, based in São Paulo, commits to a drawing every day in 2026, using a random word generator to banish creative block and graphite pencil to rediscover what had quietly disappeared from his life. It happens gradually, and then it is just gone. For Madison Rengnez,…
Self-taught artist Pacolli has spent two decades hand-printing one-of-a-kind apparel from her apartment, first in São Paulo and for the past sixteen years in San Francisco, letting her work take her from indie art shows to a Super Bowl football. Twenty years of printing in apartments. Not studios, not workshops:…
Central Saint Martins graphic design student Guan Wang translates a quiet winter in Antibes into a series of duotone Risograph prints that use limited colour and grain to preserve a moment of stillness that might otherwise pass unnoticed. January in Antibes. The sea wind cold, the landscapes empty, the rhythm…
Art director and brand designer Kasia Konopka turns the language of consumer packaging against itself, building a modular typographic system that asks what it means when growth starts to look like branding. Something is unsettling about how naturally the language of self-improvement borrows from the language of product marketing… Stronger,…
Manchester-based interdisciplinary artist Chloe Watts has spent nearly a decade building a self-devised creative practice in the absence of the lawful aftercare she was entitled to following three years of psychiatric hospitalisation. This is what that practice looks like. On 23 February 2017, Chloe Watts was discharged from hospital after…
Mumbai-based visual artist Aditya Damle merges Jack Kirby’s Fourth World cosmology with Indian mythology and sci-fi fantasy for a limited-edition series of heat-press artworks created exclusively for the first Footlocker store launch in India. When Adidas Originals and Footlocker came together to celebrate the opening of Footlocker’s first ever Indian…
Romanian graphic designer Blanca Doba builds a conceptual body care brand from the ground up, using forest-derived materials, archival references and tactile packaging to reposition natural skincare as documented substance rather than decorative trend. The language of natural beauty branding has become so familiar it has almost stopped meaning anything.…
New Zealand graphic designer and illustrator Anna Taylor strips a live album cover back to its essence, letting photography, colour and a single touch of spot gloss do all the talking. There is a particular confidence in a cover that does not need to explain itself. The artwork Anna Taylor…
Multidisciplinary branding and design practice Altspace Design Studio brings architectural thinking and deliberate colour strategy to a real estate rebrand, building a visual identity anchored in trust and contemporary energy. The starting point for Zion Realty’s rebrand was a single conviction: the logo is the face of the brand, and…
Sydney-based collage artist and designer Yeara Chaham asks whether a feeling from music can become an artwork, building a mixed media composition from scanned pearls, magazine fragments and cool blue tones to translate the particular atmosphere of Sade into something you can see. The starting point was a question: can…
London-based illustrator and animator David Oku treats the constraints of 2D digital space not as a ceiling but as a starting point, building bold, densely detailed worlds from multicultural influences, hand-drafted letterforms and a refusal to release anything that doesn’t radiate positive energy. David Oku has a rule: if someone…
British-Canadian graphic designer and illustrator Aysha Lilani merges East African heritage with snowboarding culture in Kichizi, a bold board graphic selected by Gilson Snow for their 2026 lineup that takes its name from a Kenyan word for mindset over struggle. The word came from a tour guide in Kenya, on…
New Orleans artist Victoria Vasilevskaya turns gig flyers into something far more considered, building a two-year archive of digital collage work that treats hardcore ephemera as art in its own right. There is a particular kind of flyer that anyone who has spent time in underground music scenes will recognise…
Bristol illustrator Alice Ferns brings the full journey of fruit from field to factory to table in a gift box designed to be its own wrapping. The brief was deceptively simple and immediately compelling: create a gift box that does not need wrapping. For Alice Ferns, a Bristol-based illustrator, it…
Designer Yaheng Li’s project Quarantine Tales explores how human emotions repeat across history. Presented as a newspaper-style graphic narrative, the work follows two fictional storytellers living through two different pandemics: Elissa during the 14th century Black Death and Panfilo during the Covid pandemic. Their voices run in parallel across the…