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.…
Moscow-based illustrator Pashoot Ka creates a series of Procreate illustrations about Peter the Stone, a character who never moves while the world around him constantly changes, drawing from a found stone and a period of personal anxiety to build something quietly philosophical and quietly funny. In 2023, Pashoot Ka found…
Brighton-based printmaker John Parkinson, known as Parky, brings colour and community spirit to a new junction in East Brighton, incorporating Edward Bawden-influenced angular forms and the graphic plant language of Angie Lewin into a spray-painted celebration of local life. Where Whitehawk and Kemptown meet, the road layout has changed. Through-traffic…
French, London-based artist Delphine Lebourgeois launches four limited edition prints that send flower-armoured rocket ballerinas into battle, each one hiding a small inner child beneath the defence. Delphine Lebourgeois’s warrior women have always moved as a troop. The Ballerina Collection sends four new recruits to join them, each one armed…
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…
Manchester-born, internationally-formed designer Patricia Shea has spent a lifetime developing a colour-saturated, maximalist pattern practice that began with watercolour on paper in New York and now exists across fabric, wallcoverings and digital print on demand. Patricia Shea did not set out to develop a unique style. “Developing a unique style…
Mumbai-based illustrator Ayushi Saria redesigns a deck of Indian playing cards from 1922, reclaiming the format through a modern Indian lens that celebrates brown skin, architectural heritage and the royalty of contemporary India. In 1922, a deck of playing cards called the Dilkhus was printed in India. The artwork was…
Honduran artist and illustrator Hernan Ramos turned a side project for publishing drawings after work into a full career built on music festival posters, vibrant chaos and a daily ritual of picking up a random book and seeing what it wakes up. Gago Illustra began as somewhere to put the…
UAL Animation graduate Erin Tilly sculpts small polymer clay creatures named Dream Weaver, Bat Prince, Precious, Dragonfly and Plepple, each one a strange, adorable reminder that life is play and magic is available to anyone willing to step into it. Observe the natural world long enough and the silliness becomes…
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…
Beijing-born, New York-based artist Yuchen Lu designs a contemporary interpretation of the Tibetan tiger rug, produced by hand in Gyantse County, Tibet, reinterpreting one of the region’s oldest motifs through a fluid composition that honours tradition while carrying the emotional complexity of the present. The tiger has been present in…
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…