For both amateurs and professionals looking to experiment with colour and paper, here’s something for you. Today, Marcroy and I would like to introduce you to fifteen of the UK’s best Risograph printing studios / RISO printers. Even though the colour options are limited with Risograph compared to the other…
If you find yourself in Edinburgh and near Rhubaba Studios on Arthur Street, you might want to pop into Workhorse Press. This independent printing and publishing studio that was founded in 2010 provides an excellent Risograph (RISO) service. The studio space is currently cohabited with two very talented artists, Dominic…
Don’t be sad! It’s official; we’ve made it through the darkest days of January, and the countdown to the S.A.D publication launch is fully underway.
Ivan, a young, Parisian silkscreen artist who creates Carnet D’ivoire Magazine by hand, got in touch to show us this beautiful short video clip. We’re very happy that he did so because it’s totally amazing. We love getting an insight into how things are made to understand and appreciate the…
“Skinhead: An Archive” is a powerful publication that explores the unique visual identity of a widely misunderstood and controversial subculture. The publication is a collection of visual material and texts curated by Toby Mott, an artist, designer and historian. The book has been meticulously designed by Art Director Jamie Reid…
Lune, a typeface by third year LCC student Corin Kennington which is based on the processes and aesthetics of sign painting. The development of the typeface explores the relationship between traditional means of design and digital technology. This set of three posters were designed to showcase the typeface. Risograph printed…
While browsing through a selection of inspiring Instagram feeds, I came across a pocket size riso printed booklet from Toronto based publishing studio, Paper Pusher. More than just a publishing house, run by transdisciplinary media artist and scholar Jp King, they see themselves as a publication research lab, living classroom…
Baptiste Virot is a French illustrator with a trademark surreal aesthetic and a passion for traditional print processes. His portfolio includes hand-screened prints, risographed zines and peculiar comics. Virot’s style is typified by flat, lurid colours, dotted textures and unseemly characters. His whimsical style of image making hints at storytelling,…
YCN professional award winner in 2013 Sarah Vanbelle, brings fun quirky illustrations to life through mixed media outputs. Her digital work is filled with humour and narrative, and she always makes it stand out by translating her designs into riso prints and recently an exhibition in which she created a…
In our studio mail this week we received the first issue of the brand new feminist inspired BBY magazine. This digital and riso printed publication acts as a journal and by collaborating solely with a collection of 15 women this editorial platform aims to counteract the status quo in the…
Baptiste Virot is a French Illustrator that boasts an amazing portfolio full of hand-rendered greatness and a passion for print. With imagery compromising of clean black and white outlines, which is often transformed through print in bold bright colours, Baptiste’s work offers a wide selection of comics documenting surreal narratives…
Professional doodlers Rich and Chris Fairhead have recently come together to form collaborative duo, El Famoso. Combining their love for hand-drawn and original illustration their designs are inspired by objects from everyday life, as well as more quirky topics from bears, monsters, party food, comics, screen prints and killer robots!…
We came across The Song Project completely out of the blue, and it struck a cord firstly with it’s eye-catching riso-printed postcards and secondly when we found out a bit more about the story behind the project. All designs are available to buy in aid of Niamh’s Fund. A charity…
South London based creative studio and ones to watch Calm and Collected have spent the past year working on a number of exciting print based collaborations, and with plans up their sleeve to drop a Risograph publication early next year I was beyond hyped to find out more about their…
Production always plays an important role in our ability to be creative, and for both designers and illustrators, we all have to admit that choosing the right printer to handle our demands can be quite tricky. Risosaurus Press is one of the perfect Riso-printers that can work for your design…
Since falling in love with Annu Kilpeläinen’s work we’ve always got an eye on what the Finnish, London based illustrator is upto, and her visual offerings never fail to impress. In recent work Annu has created a wicked 4 colour risograph zine ‘RALLY’ that feature her bold signature illustrations across…
Jean de Wet is an illustrator and Artist based in Cape Town. Since graduating in 2007 Jean has been directing focus on comics, illustration and books often dabbling in Riso and screen print. With an eye for detail, narrative and colour Jean’s beautiful imagery invites us into weird and wonderful…
Tom Deason is an illustrator and designer from London who finished the illustration course at UWE in Bristol. Although being very much into screenprinting, these are his first risoprints. It seems as if he’s got a knack for it and we’re looking forward to seeing many more. Tom Deason was…
Camberwell graduate Chloe Greenfield was one of the stand-out students for me this summer. Her work at the Camberwell College degree show was confident and bold, and displayed high quality outcomes in screen print, riso and ceramics. I had chat to her about why her dream studio would be in…
Thank you to everyone for your wonderful submissions for the Graduate Print Awards 2014, we have been overwhelmed by the incredibly high standard of work and the hundreds of submissions we have received. Now, People of Print are proud to present our hand selected nominations and if you are on…