In the course of 130 years of their existence in the English creative industry, internationally-renowned paper company G.F Smith never fail to astonish us and once again they are launching their new webpage, offering individual photographers framing solutions, mounting and bespoke design services. G.F Smith Photographic was last modified: December…
We’ve had our eye on London based designer / print maker Peter Judson for a while now, and after a recent visit to his website to see what he’s been upto he did not disappoint. Gaining an ever growing and impressive list of clients, Peter’s signature graphic, bold and shape-based…
London based graphic and visual artist Rachel Noble is making waves in the digital realms of music cover art. I’ve had my eye on her hyperreal compositions for a while now, consisting of shattered pixel fragments and luxurious melts of irredescent tones. From designing the graphics for her own show…
The work that comes out of the wonderful Kindred Studio is beautiful and weird and everything in-between. Andrew Fairclough is the face behind it all and has been working from his Sydney based studio since 2004. His work has a consistent aura of magic and mystery that spans projects from…
ILLAMERICA has recently dropped their offering for AW14. Consisting of the brand’s first full outfits alongside some classic pieces, the collection is mostly monochrome with hints of bold block red and highlights print with all-over patterns and bold typographic designs.
In the 1950s, Italian designer Bruno Munari produced a series of screen prints entitled Negativo Positivo. Munari aimed to investigate the Gestalt Theory, meaning “unified whole”, by achieving optimum equality between the light and dark sections within an image. The geometrical prints present flat colours that Munari has arranged in…
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…
Santa Monica-based artist and photographer Diane Meyer creates an impressive collection of images that have been obscured by a layer of embroidered pixels. She distorts sections of her original photographs taken at various points in her life then enhances them with embroidery to remind viewers that there are hidden truths…
Ambivalent is a Berlin based fraternity that is driven by a passion for skateboarding and contributing to its culture. Recently dropping their latest beautifully shot look book, their offerings for AW14 feature clean bold graphic prints and simple but stylish branding. Ambivalent :: AW14 was last modified: November 29th, 2014…
Dean Beattie is an illustrator based in Maidstone but spends a lot of time in Brighton. He’s just released issue 02 of his comic book ‘Random Trials’. The comics follow Charlie Cooper and details his ‘explosive’ reaction to a pharmaceutical trial. All the pages are coloured in full with acrylic…
The Print Wagon is a charming automobile dedicated to touring all of illustrator, linocut artist and printmaker Aidan Saunders’s work to a national print fanatics across Britain. Saunders decided to start out this extraordinary journey earlier in April and since then he has traveled over 7,000 miles across the country,…
To celebrate 40 years of Vrijzinnig Centrum Geuzenhuis Gent, Topo Copy teamed up with HOUTD & KapOw to make RISOGRAFIA #3. A new series of risograph prints with designs from 40 international artists. Each print was pulled through their beloved Risograph duplicator twice. There are 40 handmade frames by HOUTD,…
Tim Bowditch is a photographer and filmmaker currently based in London. With a range of imagery in his diverse portfolio ranging from graphic to tonal and abstract, Tim’s work is primarily documentary based, focusing on how people perceive and interact with space and place, which he often explores further, fictionalises…
Currently working in London, Assa Ariyoshi is a half Japanese, half Dutch illustrator with a passion for food, nature and bight vibrant colours. After graduating from Kingston University with a degree in Illustration, she has since worked for clients such as the International New York Times, Stylist Magazine, Random house…
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!…
The London Illustration Fair is once again taking place in the East End’s Hoxton Arches starting this Friday 5th December 2014. This year, the panel of judges consisting of the UK’s leading figures in the illustration and graphic arts scene have rounded up the most exciting and talented young illustrators and…
Natassa Pappa is an independent graphic designer based in Athens. Her work ranges from print to spatial design and seeks editorial conversation. With a conceptual approach, she opts for witty, content-focused and research-driven design, across a mixed clientéle and mostly through interdisciplinary collaborations. In 2013 her MDes graduation project City…
In an all-girl takeover and a recent online wave of female only collectives – the Brooklyn-based zine, Illuminati Girl Gang is at the vanguard of feminism’s new movement. Founded and created by poet and multi-media artist Gabby Bess (Gabby Gabby) and working within the context of the female digital revolution…