The Eboy collective was founded in 1998 by a trio consisting of Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Shintal and Kai Vermehr as a channel of exploration and outlet for their shared love of pixel art. Before they began producing prints, the collective’s work was made exclusively for the screen and distributed on…
London based artist, Joanna Ham is more renowned in the art world as the creative mind behind home wares label HAM. Launched in 2011 her brand is bold and blocky, black and white, playfully incorporating the anthropomorphic characters of a pig and a rabbit in a fascination with the banal…
Sarah Hoskins is a mid west based documentary photographer that splits her time between both Chicago and Lexington. Having exhibited in 100’s of shows, Sarah’s often monochrome, striking and haunting imagery visualizes moments of life, history, geography, friends, family tradition and change on film. Immersing herself in culture and the…
Joe Cruz is a visual artist based in London, with an animated, refreshing and distinguished style. Exploring his very own interpretation of found imagery, Joe brings nostalgic black and white photography to life with an overlapping ice cream palette of scribbles and artistic scrawl. Expressive and striking, forgotten photos are…
Showcasing unique design and content-driven approaches to screen-print, Chopped Liver Press is a publishing house run by London-based artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin whose recent projects include a collection of typographic posters and their amazing hard-backs ‘Black Market’ and ‘Frozen Chicken Train Wreck’ – their collaborated project with Ditto…
With the inspiration behind the brand put plain and simply as – ‘seeing boring crap on boards and people still buying it’, Blast Skates, founded by freelance illustrator and keen skater Matthew Bromley launched earlier this year. Based in Brixton, South London the Independent Skate brand has commissioned deck doodlers…
Malick Sidibe is a Malian photographer who’s black and white film work is completely enchanting. Known for his electrically charged photos of popular culture and cultural shift in 1960’s Bamako, his home city in Mali, he captures people being free and relaxed in public when doing so was relatively new…
Liefhebber Design is the Netherlands based graphics company, ran by creative Nick Liefhebber. Focusing on brand identity and multi media campaigns, Nick divides his visual work between collected communication and imaginative storytelling. His more corporate style is organised and refined, presenting brand identity and design solutions to a range of…
After their sell out first collection, masters of bumbags and bucket bags and kings of print in the streetwear world, Dr Banana, have finally dropped their eagerly awaited second release. With each cool, carefully selected print available in just tiny editions of 25, you best get in there quick if…
Kari Medig is a Photographer that crew up in a cabin in Northern British Columbia with parents that made him go cross-country skiing and took photos of wild mushrooms / fungi on matching Nikon FEs. After studying biochemistry, Kari inherited his parent’s cameras, started taking photos and studied photography and…
This issue of Printing Friends magazine has been beautifully designed by Swedish creative branding and design agency Snask. The Stockholm based company previously rebranded the print based magazine a short while ago, after the founders felt the aesthetic quality lacked the delivery of its written content. For this issue Snask…
House of Hackney have boomed since their conception in 2010. Inspired by their desire to create a new take on traditional interiors, they combined their background in fashion and love of interiors to build the unique brand. They have recently collaborated again with worldwide brand Puma, to bring their designs…
Here at People of Print, we are true fans of the formidable force that is the Heretic trio. We definitely don’t want to blow our own trumpets but we like to think that we know a fair amount about the world of print, and these guys stick out at the…
For over a decade, East London’s Kemistry Gallery has served as a creative hub and exhibition space for international art and design talents, both young and professional alike. But the gallery has recently announced that it is now facing permanent closure following the impending redevelopment of its current home. But…
Influenced by Jungian psychology and mythology, Travis Lawrence uses the art of printmaking to present archetypal figures iconically composed of symbol and allegory. Taking influence from medieval illuminated illustrations and alchemical manuscripts, the iconic imagery play the role as emblems of contemplation, containing symbolic references to a deeper archetypal meaning.…
Nike have recently teamed up with Liberty for an offering of both clothes and footwear for AW14. The season sees Liberty introduce their Belmont Ivy print into their iconic archive, with botanical artwork inspiration rooting from the entwining patterns of ivy clinging to buildings. Focusing heavily on print offered in…
You may have seen our previous ravings about this very memorable London based illustrator who grew up on the Scottish border with a Tanzanian artist mother. Well here’s a great chance to see what all the fuss is about for yourselves, with her solo show opening in Brighton this Friday…
Designer Echo Yang presents slick and well considered solutions to presenting information, with her refined editorial design approach. Based in Taiwan, her dynamic skillset lend themselves to a range of graphic design projects including this music album packaging. The mainly monochrome, with flashes of candy pink arrangement of text and…
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…
London’s graphic design scene is about to heat up once again since Grafik and Monotype are presenting a series of live events dedicated to one of the most fundamental elements of good design, Letterform. Despite a sharp drop in temperatures in London over the past few days, the talks and…