We are totally drawn to East London-based designer Camille Walala’s work for its experimental attitude and tactile quality – not to mention her colourful Memphis-influenced patterns that are undeniably recognisable. A graduate in Textile Design from the University of Brighton, her design features a lot of bold blues, delicious teals,…
Brighton based solo artist Bonny and Clyde has been getting a lot of hype recently for her beautifully constructed collages, often featuring architecture, nature and human forms, recently inspired by her travels through the Americas. Many have been converted into screen prints, but all are beautifully composed in similar sugary…
Carmen Fernández Sanz is a surface patten designer based in Madrid, Spain. Originally starting her creative career in the fashion design discipline and after working for several large names, she made the transition to producing design concepts for pattern and surface. Her style is understatedly cool, adding her own twist…
Nicolas André is a French illustrator, screen printer, painter and editorial designer too. He has a natural skill in combining colour, composition and three-dimensional design. But it’s his screen printed work that really stands out. Whilst creating colour happy prints he also thinks further than the two dimensional, he has…
Potentially my new favourite illustrator, I am obsessed with Japanese artist Yoko Honda’s homages to all things 80’s. Through a combination of digital painting and print, she constructs scenes of resplendent kitsch, made up of palm trees, motels, neon signs and swimming pools, all inter-dispersed with structured lines, tiles or…
American artist Martincic lives and works in Columbia, Missouri, and is immersively interested in environments associated with water, (eg. pools, shower stalls) and how we relate to these spaces and the various forms of privacy they offer. She explores these interests through an impressively broad range of traditional print techniques,…
Drew Nikonowicz is a photographer that currently lives and works in Columbia, Missouri. Drew’s work focuses deeply on exploring landscapes through both stimulations and reality. Taking upon the role of a 21st century explorer, in his project ‘This world and others like it’ Drew looks towards the landscapes that exist…
I recently came across the work of Los Angeles based multimedia artist, Leo Eguiarte and immediately fell in love. His psychedelic paintings explore power and spirituality through symbolic shapes and striking colour schemes. Leo bases his ideas around the concept of ‘holographic conjuration,’ the visual illusion our material desires hold…
Brighton based british photographer Ewen Spencer is best known for his work with Mike Skinner of ‘The Streets’, videos he has produced for Massive Attack or perhaps his critically acclaimed documentary short film ‘Brandy and Coke’, which follows the underground garage rave scene in the 90s, and some of the…
Jessica Hans is a ceramicist and textile designer that lives and works in Philadelphia. Inspired by plants, landscapes, deep sea life and geology, Jessica creates beautifully lumpy, miss-shapen colourful pots and ceramics that invite you into her earthy coloured, patterned fairy-tale world. Jessica Hans was last modified: September 23rd, 2014…
We are enamoured with the charming works created by Dutch graphic designer, illustrator and printmaker Eline Van Dam aka Zeloot who is now residing in a lovely village named Gruiten in Germany. Whilst enjoying producing most of her work by hand, Zeloot also embraces some digital techniques resulting in an…
I came across Ed’s amazing artwork on Booooooom this week after founder Jeff was lucky enough to visit the Vancouver based Artist at his studio. Ed’s process involves taking a photo of a crumpled piece of reflective paper, which he prints and proceeds to cut into pixel shapes. Ed then…
A huge congratulations to Gaurab Thakali who has be crowned our 2014 Graduate Print Awards Winner. Gaurab’s work was a strong favourite amongst the People of Print team alongside our panel of judges too. London Graphic Centre commented that he has “an incredible colourful style which communicates atmosphere and purpose“,…
Second place in our Graduate Print Awards 2014 is the amazing Fran Buss. Within our Print Award submissions we received a large amount of printed textile entries, but no one impressed our panel quite as much as Fran. Her screen printed textiles for her graduate show collection have such a…
Our first runner up for the Graduate Print Awards 2014 is the very well-deserved Callum Copley. Callums’ work combines a range of experimental print techniques that not only make for great visually alluring design, but always consider their relationship to the subject matter. Creating a poster for Kinetica Art Fair…
Queen of composition Tali Bayer is a young artist based in Germany. Specialising in collage based juxtapositions and curious arrangements of materials, Tali makes all her work by hand before digitalising each finished piece. Inspired by structures and surfaces, she is heavily influenced by shapes found particularly in plants and…
Jennifer Hope Clothing is a unisex street wear brand founded in Bristol by Oxford born fashion/print designer Jennifer Hope who specialises in turning intricate 2D designs into 3D retina burning one-of-a-kind garments for its loyal clientele. We spoke to Jennifer about the early days, her design background and discuss the…
It is very interesting to see how Danish graphic designer Kristina Krogh lets her imagination soar by taking inspiration from her daily life. From a beautiful old parquet, a stone floor in a church to a view from the cycle path, this Copenhagen-based designer manages to create subtle and simple…
On the morning of the Blisters 2014 show in which Belfast born Carrickfergus raised Peter Strain exhibits his work. People of Print talks exclusively with the AOI Award winning Illustrator about his design up bringing, the Belfast design scene, the key themes his work explores and more importantly he picks out his favourite Wes…
A graduate of both Glasgow and Chelsea schools of art, Linzie Hunter is renowned for her digital illustration and lettering work, although when away from the computer she enjoys traditional printmaking. Having worked with clients as impressive as Nike, Harper Collins, Time Magazine and the Guardian, her commercial work, such…