Riyadh-based multidisciplinary artist SAN SHYN paints a series of character-driven analog works that hold vitality and stillness in the same frame, exploring fragility, playfulness and the impermanence of existence through acrylic, spray paint and stencil. SAN SHYN has been developing characters as emotional vessels since childhood. Each figure in her…
Pune-based branding studio Rare Ideas, directed by Vijeta Singh, develops the identity and spatial experience for a neighbourhood café by drawing from block-printing and relief craft traditions, extending the idea of made-from-scratch into every surface, object and interaction. The brief was not to make a café that looked crafted. It…
When art, design and cycling come together, the results can be far more than performance apparel. They can become a celebration of identity, community and storytelling. That is exactly the spirit behind the latest collaboration between Rapha and Yinka Ilori, who has created a limited-edition collection for the Rapha Cycling…
Lisbon-based design studio Frau im Mond launches Alien Magazine, a publication built for people who feel other, with design decisions that enact the very dichotomies they describe: rough where you expect smooth, unreadable where you expect legible, strange where you expect welcome. Alien Magazine began as a question: what would…
Cheltenham-based illustrator Kai Dylan responds to the feeling of deep connection with nature with two risograph prints drawn from his own memories, printed in a carefully developed four-colour palette of aqua, red, yellow and purple that carries the warmth and nostalgia he was reaching for. Eutierria is a word for…
Slovak-Canadian artist and designer Nicole Beno creates a poster series that places her father’s old analog automotive drawings in tension with the decorative excess of Slovak folklore embroidery, exploring immigrant liminality, cultural hybridity and the space between institutional order and artistic release. Nicole Beno’s father brought automotive drawings from Communist…
Troy, New York-based printmaker, animator and musician Nathan Meltz presents a 30-minute stop-motion animation composed entirely of screenprint positives, ink and clay, scored live by a four-piece ensemble, exploring colonisation, violence, resistance and peace-making across three parts. The Golem is a creature from Jewish mythology: a figure made of clay…
Romanian designer and illustrator Ioana Boros brings two collectible 3D-printed flower characters to life after five years of development, creating an edition of six each that balances geometric structure with bold, playful colour. Ioana Boros first sketched The Blooms in 2020. It took five years to get them made. Part…
Spanish illustrator Ave Félix applies the logic of the plot twist to everyday reality, building a surreal illustration series that flips the assumed relationship between knives and vegetables, dogs and bones, paintings and observers, to ask what would happen if the world worked in reverse. A plot twist, in narrative…
Edinburgh illustrator Blythe MacDonald of Little Yellow Scribbles creates a custom gift voucher illustration for Ciccetta’s, Edinburgh’s only 100% gluten-free gelateria, bringing two female-led independent businesses together through a character-led design completed in two weeks. It started with an Instagram conversation. Blythe MacDonald of Little Yellow Scribbles and Becca of…
Graphic designer and poster artist Mikhail Lychkovskiy held a solo poster exhibition at PANDA Platforma in Berlin from March to April 2026, with a screen-printed exhibition poster produced at Bankov Print Space in Prague combining digital freewrite letters, acrylic paint on crumpled paper, and two contrasting typefaces. The name was…
Indonesian visual designer and illustrator Aurelia Karina develops a personal series of digital illustrations built on disproportionate human forms and bold contrasting colour, inspired by plus-size yoga culture and a desire to express what words cannot always reach. In 2018, Aurelia Karina’s mother started sharing videos of plus-size women doing…
Istanbul-based graphic designer and illustrator Eda Çağıl Çağlarırmak brings the Adidas Runners community into one of Istanbul’s most iconic spaces, painting a 4.5 by 3.1 metre mural that captures the layered spirit of the Grand Bazaar and the sense of togetherness that running creates. The Grand Bazaar has been in…
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,…
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…
Shenzhen-based illustrator and designer Heather Zhou creates a vibrant digital illustration series of sea creatures with distinct personalities, building a fantastical underwater world full of odd charm and childlike wonder that draws from marine biology, fairytale and the people around her. There is a friendly and childlike octopus. A lobster…
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…
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.…