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…
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…