Risograph printing, with its unique aesthetic and vibrant colours, is an environmentally friendly and affordable way of printmaking that uses soy-based inks. The Risograph is a stencil duplicator, and can be seen as a cross between screen printing and a photo copy. The machine produces unique outcomes by printing one…
Concrete Nature is a creative studio based in Glasgow and run by Clementine Carriere. The studio collaborates with individuals, galleries, institutions, and organisations to bring projects to life across print, digital, and space. Taking a “holistic” approach to what they do, and a desire to “positively impact the planet”, Clementine…
Wild Press is a new Risograph print studio run by illustrator and printmaker Lou Rowland, based at Wild & Kind Studios in Glasgow. Wild and Kind are an ethical print and embroidery social enterprise that use 100% of its profits to tackle loneliness and isolation. They strive to make Riso…
Lena Yokoyama is a Japanese/Austrian illustrator, printmaker, and ‘visual translator’. Having grown up mostly in Japan and Austria, with some time spent some in France and the US, Lena is now living in London, where she also completed her degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2020. Drawing…
Seán Joseph Brennan is a screen printer living and working in Dublin, Ireland. After having to return to Ireland from Australia due to the Covid pandemic, he is currently working as a screen printer in his day job in a car parts manufacturer, as well as producing screen prints of…
Claire Guyot is the founder of Riso on the Moon; a Risograph printing studio based in Toulouse, France, that started up six months ago, just after Claire completed her studies in Graphic Design. Claire discovered Riso printing by chance. Her school in Toulouse had a one-colour machine, that was “quite…
Luke Matthews is the Head of Creative at a small design agency in the UK, producing typographic Risograph prints in his spare time. Educated with a BA (Hons) in Photography from UCA, throughout his studies Luke found himself more drawn towards design. Ever since, he has worked his way up…
Concrete Nature is the studio of Clementine Carriere, with an output including design work, printed goods and experiences. The studio aims to collaborate with individuals, organisations and institutions on design projects across print, digital, and space. Alongside commissioned projects, Clementine also works on self-initiated projects across a range of platforms…
Anastasia Beltyukova, aka Tribambuka, is an award winning illustrator, artist and animation director, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. She left home in search of home in 2010, got stuck in London during the eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, and has been living and working there happily ever since. Feeling the need…
Rose Wong’s sharp outlines, bold colours and carefully honed compositions delineate her very smart approach to reducing often complex ideas into punchy, dynamic visual narratives. Her work is characterised by its marriage of simplicity and complexity, driven by lines and patterns throughout. It’s little surprise that the Brooklyn-based illustrator has…
Time spent indoors inspired Sandrine Anne Sautejeau, a French-Chilean illustrator and graphic designer, to conceive her Mental Escapes series. The project depicts dream-like scenarios through windows, with scenes of far away places and distant lands. The first two designs of this unfolding series portray images of portals and hot-air balloons…
Mothership Print Studio is run by Julian Mayerhofer, a freelance printer and illustrator based in Vienna, Austria. The studio specialises in Risography, screen printing, and mimeography (Gestetner). His work is characterised by the use of vibrant colours, texture, diversity and multiplicity. Julian studied graphic design in Vienna, where he developed…
As a lover of mid-century furniture, in particular chairs, illustrator Mal Fisher couldn’t resist turning nine of his favourites into a set of limited edition Risograph A6 mini prints. The series features influential designs by greats such as Ray and Charles Eames, Bruno Pollock, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and…
Mika Schalks is a final-year Graphic Design student at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague, and a self-proclaimed gaiety-enthusiast, encouraging the omission of narrative. In their work, focused largely on the light-hearted nature of aesthetic, Mika induces a feeling of vague tangibility to a narrative seemingly reduced to nonsense.…
This year’s not been short of news, but one of the saddest and most brutally shocking things to hit the headlines over the summer was the massive explosion that hit Beirut on 4 August. The disaster in the Lebanese capital is said to have caused at least 204 deaths, 6,500…
Mina Braun is a Berlin-based illustrator. After studying Visual Communication in Kassel, Germany, she continued her studies in illustration in Edinburgh. As a student, she practised printmaking and discovered screen printing whilst conducting independent experiments. After graduating she focused on producing and selling her own screen prints. In 2015, Mina…
Wild & Kind is a women-led, ethical garment printing, drop-shipping fulfilment and creative studio based in Glasgow, Scotland. They offer a Risograph printing and embroidery service, and work only with 100% organic cotton or recycled items, with the aim to create as little waste as possible with what they do.…
Ploterre is a new project by Rebecca J Kaye in which she uses environmental data to create a range of prints. Rebecca’s designs are inspired by the natural world and underpinned by data. This data is then translated into visuals using a combination of mathematics, coding and design. The visuals…
Roy van Wezenbeek is a graduate of Graphic Design, Illustration and Fine Arts from AKV St.Joost School of Art in Breda and ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL). Alongside his work as an illustrator, Roy also works a day job at a textile screen printing company, and with a background in graphic design he…
The Yorkshire City of Bradford has become the first local authority in the UK to commission a Riso-printed zine as it looks to support its creative and cultural workforce amidst the challenges faced by covid-19. The City Council’s cultural partnerships team – led by Nic Greenan – initiated a rapid…