Artist Mina Hamada is an expert in creating imagination fuelled masterpieces, full of vibrancy and colour. Raised in Tokyo, her relocation to Barcelona had a great influence on her interest in street art and she began experimenting with large scale artworks and murals. Her work has a great childlike element…
It’s the beginning of 2015 and the spotlight is on this project by Chris Fritton. After almost 6 years working as a studio director of the Western New York Book Arts Center, Chris Fritton has decided to embark on an artistic journey across the United States with an aim to…
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…
To commemorate their 100th year, American Institute of Graphic Arts marked their turn of the century with a postcard retrospective. 100 designers were asked to select a year from 1914-2014 and create a politically, socially or culturally inspired design from that year. With artwork from the likes of Michael Bierut,…
Founded in 2002, Research & Development are an art director duo based in Stockholm. Working in close collaboration with artists, architects, curators and museums they produce sophisticated printed matter for events and exhibitions. Adding an slice of elegance to the regular presentation of information, their brochures and books focus on…
I came across the photographic work of couple Bernd and Hilla Becher within the Barbican’s exhibition, “Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age”. The Becher’s typologies of banal buildings and structures aim to document the physical leftovers of disappearing industries. Bernd & Hilla Becher: Photographic Typologies was last…
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,…
Elsa Poux graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and has since submerged herself in pattern design, transforming the finest of fabrics into collisions of colour, shape and narratives. Elsa is the founder and creator of Paris based fashion company Mapoésie, which originates from a willingness to…
A new book dedicated to the Ukranian born king of collage Sergei Sviatchenko and his work has been published. Compiled by Rick Poynor, the publication celebrates a unique retrospective of the renowned artist’s cutting compositions. Showing his most significant work from the past 10 years, his methods and ideals are…
Not ones to miss out on the season of giving, Adidas UK have teamed up with illustrator Willkay to create the artwork for this year’s Christmas wrapping paper and greetings cards. Recreating the famous trefoil logo, the artist has hand drawn a floral design in white, black and blue colourways,…
Value Increase by Visual Design (VIVID) is a project which aims to create a cross-border Visual Design network of knowledge centres, universities, institutions, companies and governments, by jointly developing and introducing innovative solutions/methods in the field of Visual Design research, education, entrepreneurship, commercialisation and showcasing. VIVID have taken their results…
Atipus are a graphic design studio based in Barcelona, specialising in visuals for identity, packaging and web based projects. Check out this innovative branding they recently created for social music therapist and educator Celia Castillo. Based on graphic representations of the rhythmic exercises Celia uses to treat her patients, the…
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and Professor. His large-scale, surveillance-style photographs employ a high viewpoint. He presents us with chaotically colourful depictions of collective existence. Gursky’s images show the patterns of industrious human activity from the stock market to supermarket. The scenes are impersonal, as the singular individual is…
Goodchild is a graphic artist currently based in London. Drawing on paper and paint where he can, Goodchild’s recent work draws focus to deliberately abstracted narrative, describing stories and events without words or people and by using shapes and symbols to communicate his concepts. If your as excited about his…
BFGF are an art led fashion brand based in LA, working with digitally printed textiles, natural fibres and hand painted fabrics. Imagine inspiration flowing from transcendent experiences, coupled with the internet’s influence, along with elements from exotic landscapes thrown in and here you have a guaranteed recipe for dreamily designed…
An enticing mix of deliciously colourful illustration by Dan Woodger will definitely cheer you up during the dreary days of winter. London-based freelance illustrator Dan Woodger, with a degree from University of Brighton, has established a worldwide reputation since he was commissioned to design over 1000 emojis for a mobile…
Ed Templeton has delved deep into his photography archive of 20 years, to select a collection of images for his latest book, Wayward Cognitions. This particular collection doesn’t fit into his usual manner of organizing by theme or subject, for instance, his previous publications were simplified themes like Teenage Smokers…
Simon Landrein is a London based artist who works in the realms of illustration, comics and film. With a contemporary take on comic strips often consisting of 3 block colours, Simon’s portfolio is an absolute must see bursting with bold graphic imagery and narrative that highlights flashes of pattern amongst…
DIFT is a creative branding and experience agency based in Belgium that work with a number of companies and organisations to construct clarity through design based solutions. One of their recent projects includes working on design and fashion led magazine Kwintessens, a publication that comes out every three months issued…
True to form, the Tate have curated a formidable Sigmar Polke retrospective. A radical experimentalist; Polke’s work aimed to challenge the consumerist culture that emerged in post-war Germany. Fascinated by advertising as a vehicle to mediate capitalist ideas, Polke created a process for distorting the images at its heart. Sigmar…