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…
Brooklyn-based artist PD Packard transforms flat printed kozo paper into three-dimensional pleated sculptures, combining printmaking, Japanese bookbinding and origami structure to create dynamic forms that expand the printed surface into space. A print, conventionally, stays flat. PD Packard’s work begins where that convention ends. Starting with original patterns designed and…
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…
Udaipur-based printmaker and research scholar Naina Somani brings figures out of the woodblock through slow, deliberate carving, making prints that treat imperfection, pressure and the grain of the material as part of the meaning. Udaipur is a city of layered movement: the general hustle and quiet, the people passing through,…
Working from her studio in the Berkshires, printmaker Adriana Alexatos transforms donated and discarded fabrics through botanical dye, eco-printing and block printing, treating the land as collaborator and textile waste as material rather than problem. The starting point for every piece Adriana Alexatos makes is something someone else was done…
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:…
Polish-Swedish artist and printmaker Jolanta Johnsson builds kaleidoscopic collage and monotype compositions from figures in crowds, pairs and solitude, exploring the diversity, fragility and persistent beauty of human community. Zygmunt Bauman, the Polish sociologist, described the current moment as a crisis of democracy, a collapse of trust. His words sit…
Italian printmaker Elisa Bertocchi has built a practice around imaginary landscapes where women, animals and botanical life exist in quiet harmony, all hand-printed from linocut one layer at a time. Some introductions to a medium are gradual. Elisa Bertocchi’s was not. “I’ve always loved drawing, but when I discovered linocutting,…
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…
Vietnamese boutique creative practice Fins Studio translates a poet’s emotional journey into a physical form through exposed Coptic binding, handwritten poems and illustrations drawn from real photographs, creating an intimate keepsake that is as much presence as publication. The demoiselle crane is a quiet bird. A migratory species associated with…
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…
Albuquerque-based visual artist Karl Orozco disassembles broken inkjet printers, coats their components in CMYK ink and stamps them onto large-format paper to create vibrant relief prints that are part forensic investigation, part monument to planned obsolescence. It started with an Epson inkjet printer sitting next to a dumpster at work…
Boston-based artist Ellen Shattuck Pierce combines relief cut, tinted cyanotype and embossing into a handprinted wallpaper that holds grief and renewal in the same frame, drawing on the cycles of winter to reckon with the hardest kind of year. Winter has a particular quality of honesty. The burnt umber remains…
Tallinn-based artist Helena Pass brings traditional Estonian folk timekeeping into a contemporary graphic context through a series of 17 stone lithographs, each editioned and mounted as a matchbox label. Some might consider it radical to name the months after the world you actually live in. Bread Month, Hay Month, Horse-Nodding…
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…
Shifting Waterscapes is a multi-sensory exhibition at THG in Devon that brings together sound, storytelling, film and printmaking to explore the fragile ecologies of wetlands and waterways. Conceived by multidisciplinary artists Ellen Wiles and Arun Sood, the project immerses visitors in the landscapes of the nearby Otterhead Lakes nature reserve…
Designer Yaheng Li’s project Quarantine Tales explores how human emotions repeat across history. Presented as a newspaper-style graphic narrative, the work follows two fictional storytellers living through two different pandemics: Elissa during the 14th century Black Death and Panfilo during the Covid pandemic. Their voices run in parallel across the…
Designer Yazmin Salgado approaches typography as something that can live beyond the page. In her ongoing self-initiated project Embodied Typography, language becomes material, spatial and reflective, turning a simple word into an object that exists within the physical world. The project began as an exploration of how design can operate…
Austin-based artist Veronica Ceci continues to push the scale of relief printmaking with Weaving Logic, a new site-specific work currently on view at Icosa Gallery in Austin as part of the exhibition Perception Technique with Erin Cunningham. Measuring around 7 x 10.5 feet, the piece is built from six interlocking…
Lisa Goebel, also known as The Naughty District, is a freelance communication designer and illustrator whose work blends analogue print processes with digital experimentation. Since launching her independent practice in 2022, her illustrations and printed works have been exhibited in cities including Berlin, London and Madrid. At the centre of…