Athens-based design studio Sputnik reimagines the printed brochure as a puzzle for a physical rehabilitation practice, cutting four typographic layouts in half, mixing the pieces and placing them inside each other so patients can experience the satisfaction of reassembly. The idea is precise in its logic. REHAB is a physical…
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.…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Book artist, designer and writer Ruchika Nambiar produces a limited edition of five artist books that make a therapy transcript fully available and entirely unreadable at the same time, using mirrors and a flag book structure to explore the gap between transparency and vulnerability. In 2018, Ruchika Nambiar recorded a…
Chennai-based multidisciplinary graphic designer and art director Malavika Natesh builds a self-initiated zine from mixed media collage, typography and personal writing, creating a visual piece that carries meaning rather than just surface appeal. The title is an intimate address. Letter to the World borrows from Emily Dickinson, but Malavika Natesh’s…
Printmaker, book artist and paper conservator Hannah Fray develops sculptural concertina books during her residency at the Regional Print Centre Wrexham, merging etching, screenprint, spray paint and drawing into hybrid cityscapes that debut at Bristol Artists’ Book Event in June 2026. The cities Hannah Fray builds in her books do…
Berlin publisher TOC marks its tenth edition with a letterpress Tenth of December that pairs Zuzana Licko’s Filosophia with a deliberately chaotic set of chapter heading typefaces, combining optical illusion bookmaking with a typography that honours, then gleefully disrupts, Saunders’ own narrative spirit. Tenth of December is the tenth edition…
Brighton-based writer and designer Phoebe Wellsted turned post-graduation uncertainty into a virtual magazine that now gives women and LGBTQ+ creatives a platform to share their work, their voices and their talents across five issues and counting. It started with an Instagram account and a column that never quite launched. Phoebe…
New York City creative studio Casalino Design produces a limited-edition photography book that marries the visual language of a Michelin-starred menu with a high fashion lookbook, launched at the St. Regis and the Diane von Furstenberg Gallery in the same week. When photographer Melanie Dunea set out to house her…
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…
German designer and researcher Franziska Sofia Meeder brings together over a dozen contributors in a 180-page publication examining how identity is constructed at the intersection of culture, gender and the technologies of our time. The question at the centre of A Collection of Modern Self is one that design is…
Paris-based creative trio Diana Castro, Maëva Grande and Laure Guillaud of Annexe Studio turned the visual language of the weekly supermarket leaflet against itself in a limited newsprint publication that is equal parts seduction and disruption. The supermarket leaflet is one of the most thoroughly ignored pieces of design in…
English-Italian editor, photographer and founder Elena Fazzino has built Garden Party Magazine from a private Instagram account into an independently published, community-led print publication that asks its readers to slow down and pay attention. The name came first. Garden Party was a private Instagram account Elena Fazzino started around 2017,…
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…
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…
For the fourth edition of Cairo Art Book Fair, the organisers and Cairo-based creative agency NTSAL introduced a playful new approach to visual identity. Instead of producing a single fixed poster, they sent out poster kits to artists across the city, inviting them to reinterpret the materials and return their…
EYEYAH! has released Issue 09: Anger, an illustration-led publication that explores one of the most complex and often misunderstood human emotions through visual storytelling, science and interactive learning. Created for children, educators and curious adults, the issue approaches anger not as something to suppress, but as a signal that can…
Order/Disorder is the debut monograph of generative artist Tyler Hobbs, bringing his algorithm-driven practice into the physical world through a carefully crafted printed publication. Commissioned by Hobbs’ studio and developed in collaboration with Unit London and Hurtwood Books, the project documents the artist’s work from 2018 to 2023 while exploring…
At the height of a crowded international book fair, where hundreds of publishers compete for attention and tables overflow with printed matter, WIRWIR PUBLISHES chose a different approach. Instead of simply displaying books, they invited participation. Armed with a manual typewriter, they asked visitors a deceptively simple question: what is…
Time moves in repetition, but no two days ever feel the same. In a Tempo., interdisciplinary artist Chaerin Do explores her notion of Time through layered print, music, and material process. The work began with seven 6 x 6 inch plexiglass acrylic sheets, each laser-engraved to represent a day of…