Ever wondered how PoP member Lee Richards creates his mesmerising tree ring prints? Well, you need to wonder no more… Here, Lee is taking you through his printmaking process step by step. In recent months, I’ve had quite a few people reaching out asking questions about the process, steps, and…
Dutch graphic designer Raoul Wilke uses a mini residency at CODA in Apeldoorn to experiment with laser-cut paper stencils for screen printing, producing three intricate posters inspired by the city’s green surroundings in a process that is eco-friendly, highly detailed and faster than traditional photographic emulsion methods. Screen printing typically…
Say the word “foil” and most people picture the same thing: gold, silver, holographic, something that catches the light and demands attention through sheer shine. Foilco, one of our long-standing People of Print partners, wants to change that picture. With their Pigment Foil range, colour does the talking instead, and…
James Cropper has been making paper in the Lake District since 1845. When the mill decided to build a creative community platform connecting artists, makers and designers with the world of paper, they turned to EXP, the Manchester-based creative agency they have trusted for over a decade. The result is…
Art Director Eric Reigert takes digital illustrations from his iPad, laser-engraves them onto shina plywood, and finishes each one with a hand-painted background to create tactile, one-of-a-kind prints that get his work off a screen and into the world. The process started with a simple frustration: digital illustrations are invisible…
Utrecht graphic designer and screen printer Boris Rijksen creates a custom limited edition print for the Utrecht Public Library’s new year celebrations, gifted to partners and stakeholders in an edition of 200 and made in two versions mirrored to produce four distinct gifts. When the Utrecht Public Library wanted to…
New York-based director, designer and illustrator Daniel Savage publishes Something Savage with Vetro Editions, a book of pen-plotted geometric animations built from bleeding marker lines and layered colour, with each page paired with augmented reality content. Daniel Savage’s background is in percussion and graphic design, and that combination shows. The…
Troy, New York-based printmaker, animator and musician Nathan Meltz presents a 30-minute stop-motion animation composed entirely of screenprint positives, ink and clay, scored live by a four-piece ensemble, exploring colonisation, violence, resistance and peace-making across three parts. The Golem is a creature from Jewish mythology: a figure made of clay…
German multidisciplinary artist Lilian C. Scheuer prints a fictional brain error message onto thermal receipt paper, then erases it with hand sanitizer, using the impermanence of the medium to enact an acceptance of forgetting as a necessary rather than a terrible thing. In computing, Out Of Memory is an error…
On 6 June 2026, Derby came together to celebrate a remarkable milestone. As part of the city’s ongoing 50:50 Twinning celebrations, People of Print and Department Store & Co invited creatives, designers, illustrators and local residents to explore a simple but powerful question: What does connection mean to you? The…
Newcastle-based freelance graphic designer Millie Carmel Jobson turns a sketchbook collage experiment with GF Smith Colorplan paper samples into a four-colour screen print made at Incubate Printmaking in the Ouseburn, letting imperfection and intuition do the heavy lifting. It started with paper samples. A set of GF Smith Colorplan swatches…
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…
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…
Dublin-based printmaker Eimearjean McCormack presents a new series of fifty-eight limited edition risograph prints on Munken Paper, recently exhibited at The Royal Hibernian Academy, exploring the intersection of lived experience, memory and imagination through layered impressions of the natural world. The space Eimearjean McCormack works in is, by her own…
Australian photographic artist and creative director Sarah Louise Kinsella takes gel plate printing, street poster scraps and spray paint to the track, creating five handcrafted livery designs for the Ferrari 296 Challenge race series across Australia. These Ferraris are not road cars. They exist solely to be pushed to their…
Berlin-based artist and spatial designer Sabine Kelka translates the visual language of electrical circuit diagrams into large-scale silkscreen prints on textile, turning engineering notation into something spatial, physical and quietly disorienting. Electrical circuit diagrams have their own rigorous visual grammar: standardised symbols, precise connections, a language designed for clarity and…
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…
Denver-based lowbrow pop surrealist Blood & Gold reverses the production process, creating digital designs first and working backwards into linocut block prints to make something no machine reproduction could replicate: evidence of human hands. Blood & Gold builds his designs on an iPad first. Then, instead of sending them to…
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…
Designer and researcher Nathan Spainhour turns a decade of field photography across South Carolina barbecue restaurants into a collage-based book that treats hand-painted signs, improvised typography and roadside architecture as evidence of cultural memory, not aesthetic curiosity. South Carolina barbecue is not simply a regional food. “Careers are made by…