Last month we were kindly gifted two rolls from the Natural Line by Hahnemühle, so we put a call out on Threads for artists and designers who would like to see their work printed on the new sustainable range. We had so many submissions and the artwork was incredible! We…
“Bold, uncanny, experimental,” is how Funmi Lijadu would describe her creative practice in three words when asked by People of Print. At 24, she is a “writer, artist, publicist [and] full-time human” blurring the boundaries of print and digital storytelling through mixed-media and mixed-material collage making. These intersections reflect Lijadu’s…
On the blog with Verfied People of Print member, Mandy Finke. Mandy is an artist and illustrator based in Amsterdam. Her distinct style and mark-making are what capture viewers’ attention, here we find out more about her process, work, and inspirations. For new visitors, please tell us what you do…
The newest edition of Posterzine, the monthly poster-come-magazine renowned for its fusion of art and print, showcases the captivating work of Manchester-based artist Joe O’Donnell. Known online as Donnie O’Donnell, Joe has attracted audiences worldwide with his whimsically wiggly illustrations of animals and nature. Oozing pixelated charm, Joe presents animals…
Sun blazing, drinks flowing, the renowned Disseny Hub – Barcelona, played host to OFFF Festival 2024, a three-day event celebrating creativity, digital art, and emerging talent. As attendees flooded into the venue, the air filled with excitement, and anticipation, ready to soak up all the information and insider knowledge from…
leafie is the latest publication to launch on our very own crowdfunding platform, In Perpetuum. Issue 01 (81% funded at time of publishing) of leafie’s bi-annual print magazine will feature in-depth features, untold stories, stunning photography, creative expression, and articles that demand distraction-free attention. leafie, which was launched as a…
Jamie Ellul, is the creative director at Supple Studio however, he is also engaged in an intriguing collaboration with design writer Jim K Davies on a project of considerable interest. Their venture takes the form of a book titled “Logo Rhythm – Band Logos That Rocked The World,” set to…
Who are you guys? We are a small screenprint studio based in rural Shropshire. We design and print tshirts, totes, posters and stickers while also printing garments for other creatives. We often collaborate with artists and experiment with other print techniques like linocuts and cyanotypes. How long have you been…
We escaped the miserable weather of England for some glorious Spanish sunshine. OFFF festival 2023 is the place to be, a festival that definitely thrives in the city buzz of Barcelona. The venue, The Disseny Hub is not one to be messed with, spread over four floors there was certainly…
Sophie Amelia is a textile designer for home interior products and accessories, going into her third and final year as a student on the Textile Design course at Leeds Arts University. Sophie is a process-led designer-maker and her practice centres around screen printing. This summer she decided to launch her textile…
Dutch creative studio Autobahn was never meant to be a design outfit at all: it was meant to be a band. It seemed music would be the destiny of four graphic design classmates, who between them, could play guitar, piano and bass; mix beats; and “sort of” sing. But it…
For issue 73 of our monthly poster-come-zine publishing project, Posterzine, we chat with Brighton-based artist Sophy Hollington. Well-known for breathing fresh life into ancient themes, from meteoric folklore to alchemical symbolism, Sophy creates beautiful works of art through the linocut process. Sophy has brought her magical touch to work for…
Over the past 15 years or so, London-based studio Zak Group has quietly made a name for itself as an outfit that produces work that’s both exceptionally beautiful, and very, very cool. While some of this work is slick, minimal (perhaps a nod to founder Zak Kyes’ background as the…
Recent Yale graduate Orysia Zabeida has had an interesting journey: currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, she grew up on the island of Montreal in Canada, and was born in a coal-mining town called Tchervonograd (which literally translates to “the-red-town”) in western Ukraine. She’s managed to achieve a lot in…
Ken Carbone is a designer, artist, musician, author and teacher. Along with Leslie Smolan, he formed independent branding agency CSA (Carbone Smolan Agency) in 1976 in New York City, working with the likes of The Louvre, Morgan Stanley, Christie’s and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Last year, the design firm formed…
We’ve been following the career of Indian-born designer and art director Simoul Alva for a few years now, and her tenacity and talent never fails to impress us. Now based in New York and working across identity design, storytelling and visual strategy. She’s previously worked with Pentagram, Sagmeister & Walsh,…
Barcelona-based Raquel Quevedo describes her practice as a “living, changing, ephemeral organism; an entity with an ambiguous existence that transits between the frontier of reality and fiction.” Her stunning, strange and beguiling work is often formed from experiments that generate data; playing with mutations of form and colour and “surreal…
Chau Luong’s work merges contemporary impulses and traditional influences to create work that’s striking, beautiful and refreshingly original. Focusing on cross-discipline collaboration, the Berlin-based artist applies her superbly crafted illustration and design work across everything from fashion projects to branding, film posters, editorial commissions for the likes of Lenny Letter…
Working under the name Mary Universe, Mary Ponomareva is a visual artist, multidisciplinary designer and researcher based in Amsterdam working across graphic design, visual art, research and hybrid media. She describes her use of graphic design, virtual reality, CGI and 3D modelling as tools “to envision and question possible futures,”…
Studio Cabrio seems to be rooted in both carefree pleasures—the wind in your hair as you’re cruising about in a flashy sports car being a key thing that informed the studio’s name—and the serious business of making visually engaging, conceptually thoughtful design work. The studio’s three co-founders, Juliane Windbiel, Kahyan…