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…
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…
London-based cartoonist and illustrator Abigail Rai brings her titanic green antagonist to life through an experimental screen print series rooted in South Asian mythology, the cycle of transformation and the insatiability of time. The Devourer is a giant green feminine force. She is the spirit of the wilderness, of transformation,…
Abigail and Phebe Cameron transform shared childhood memory into bold, layered screen print, sculpture and installation, asking how much of the inner child survives the journey into adulthood. You’re walking into a room full of toys and sweets, and suddenly, you realise you are not entirely comfortable… That is the…
What begins as a scribble can sometimes grow into something much bigger. For Bub, it became an entire world. Created by Nitya Bellani, Be A Bub is a character-led project that sits somewhere between illustration, storytelling and personal mythology. It is playful, chaotic, self-aware and deeply human. At its core…
Founded in 2024 by writer and editor JAKE MIKE BOY, GUTS Magazine is a new independent print publication exploring offal, food culture and the people who work in hospitality. The first issue brings together 33 contributors from around the world, creating a wide-ranging look at how interior organs appear in…