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,…
Multidisciplinary visual artist Omisha Gandhi builds a cartoon world around a girl stuck inside her own mind, using the perceived lightness of the form to hold complex questions about perception, identity and lived experience. Cartoons make people lower their guard. That is, for Omisha Gandhi, precisely the point. “Cartoons are…
Belgrade-based illustrator and visual storyteller Kristina Jovanovic, aka kiikii.jova, transforms a wine label into a small emotional narrative about love, pressure and the resilience of a heart that keeps opening itself regardless. A wine label is among the most constrained canvases an illustrator can work with: small, functional, expected to…
After a decade of commercial illustration, UK-based visual artist Claudine O’Sullivan found her way back to paint through running, building an abstract, process-led studio practice that captures energy rather than form. Claudine O’Sullivan started running just under two years ago. It had nothing to do with her work. Then, gradually,…
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…
Illustrator Meital Shushan draws on ancient Levantine vessels, desert motifs and her Moroccan-Iraqi roots to build a contemporary visual language in which inherited forms carry memory, landscape and cultural identity into the present. The amphora is one of the oldest containers in human history: a vessel designed to hold, to…
Illustrator, artist and activist Ayala Meidan brings two years of living through ongoing violence in Israel-Palestine into a studio practice developed at Can Serrat residency in Catalonia, combining collected text and image to find language for experiences that resist it. Some experiences do not resolve into words. Ayala Meidan arrived…
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…
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:…
Chilean artist Catatte Tapia translates cult cinema frame by frame into coloured ballpoint pen, turning the speed of film into something that demands hours of meticulous, layered work and invites the viewer to get close. Cinema moves at 24 frames per second. Catatte Tapia works at a rather different pace.…
Philadelphia painter, illustrator and public artist Haley Simone Potter distils the joy and energy of live musical performance into vibrant digital prints and acrylic paintings, built from years of sketching friends at band practice. It started at band practice. Haley Simone Potter spent years sketching friends playing music, watching how…
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…
Hong Kong-born, London-based illustrator and artist Lily Kong builds a world of fragmented landscapes across mono-printing, lino, riso and drawing, bringing them together in a handbound artist book made during residency at London Centre for Book Arts. The starting point was a need to slow down. Since 2023, Lily Kong…
Writer-director and multidisciplinary artist Hanaé Sanchez creates a diptych of short film and freely distributed zine rooted in her dual Khmer identity, blending live action, 2D animation and Khmer kitsch into an immersive world that asks whether the past can be rewritten. Hanaé Sanchez got tired of waiting. “I grew…
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…
Edinburgh-based multidisciplinary designer Heather Fletcher combines precise hand-drawn line work with mid-century pattern and colour to translate the character of the built environment into something expressive and evolving. Architecture is usually drawn to be accurate. Heather Fletcher draws it to be felt. Their mixed media illustrations of Edinburgh’s built environment…
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…
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…