Contemporary mixed-media artist Jana Nicole uses James Cropper papers in two significant projects: a mixed-media installation for a major archaeological museum exhibition in South Tyrol, and her ongoing Foxfire work at Falmouth Art Gallery. For Nicole, paper is not a surface. It is an active material, a carrier of craft…
New York-based designer Ipshita Krishan reimagines the identity for Sunburn, India’s largest electronic music festival, using hand-drawn sunburn patterns, vibrating typography and an expansive colour language drawn from growing up in India to create a system that reflects the festival’s cultural origins and global ambitions. Most festival identities reach for…
Polish multidisciplinary artist Ania Blanda creates interactive, place-based art projects that use illustration, websites and participatory formats to connect audiences with complex questions about the places they inhabit — working with organisations and communities to turn passive viewing into active engagement. Ania Blanda makes work that asks something of the…
New Delhi-born designer and maker Deepesh Sangtani documents India’s hand-painted street signs, distils their letterforms and symbols into laser-engraved rubber stamps on modular wooden blocks, and uses them to create prints that embrace inconsistency, misalignment and the open-ended nature of play. Hand-painted signs in India have a distinct visual character,…
Mumbai-based award-winning graphic designer and AGI member Shweta Malhotra collects a decade of fashion illustrations from her visual diary Something Cool Everyday into a limited edition Riso-printed zine, produced with Miso.inc in Surat. In 2014, Shweta Malhotra started a visual diary called Something Cool Everyday, a daily illustration practice where…
Bangkok-based designer and visual storyteller Martin Hao Chen places the same simple pink elephant into photographs taken across Thailand, using a quiet visual metaphor to express what years of corporate life left unspoken. The elephant in the room is something everyone understands and nobody addresses. Martin Hao Chen took that…
Designer, researcher and transmedia artist Feixue Mei brings together exhibitions, public conversations, workshops, artist books and an online forum across James Madison University and Boundless Bound Publishing this autumn, exploring what happens to cultural heritage, publishing and identity when they cross generations, places and communities. 传 (chuán) means to transmit,…
Say the word “foil” and most people picture the same thing: gold, silver, holographic, something that catches the light and demands attention through sheer shine. Foilco, one of our long-standing People of Print partners, wants to change that picture. With their Pigment Foil range, colour does the talking instead, and…
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG is welcoming 80 new apprentices and dual-track students across Germany this month, expanding its training programmes to build the next generation of print and technology talent. The focus is on making presses smarter, production faster and print quality more consistent. Heidelberg is one of the oldest names…
People of Print’s Gradspotters programme spotlights emerging graduate talent working in print and image-making. Our latest prospect is Bella Venable, MA Printmaking student at UWE Bristol, whose practice uses fabric and printmaking as a ritual for grief. Bella Venable grew up in California, studied illustration at Camberwell College of the…
Graphic designer, illustrator and lino print artist Alice Pugini is relocating her Block & Branch studio from Amsterdam to Rome, marking ten years in professional design with a move back to the city that has always shaped her work. Alice Pugini has spent ten years in Amsterdam. Bikes and canals,…
London-based illustrator Mrudula Kuvalekar begins a daily poetry comic series after six months of making nothing for herself, creating one page each day in response to whatever the day brought, building an unplanned and honest record of time passing. After an unusually busy year, Mrudula Kuvalekar realised she had not…
Art-book lovers, take note: TASCHEN’s biannual sale lands this week, and it’s the kind of event that makes even the most disciplined coffee-table-book collector lose all restraint. From Wednesday, September 2 to Sunday, September 6, TASCHEN is offering up to 75% off across its catalogue: art, fashion, photography, design, architecture,…
Curtis Packaging has become the first printer in the US to embed invisible security features directly into luxury packaging during the printing process, through a certification programme from Koenig & Bauer’s Vision & Protection system. What this means for packaging design is more interesting than it might first appear. Most…
People of Print’s Gradspotters programme spotlights emerging graduate talent working in print and image-making. Our latest prospect is Shekar Menon, a Mumbai-born graphic designer based in New Jersey who holds an MFA from MICA, whose practice is built on reading cities through their signs, textures and everyday visual culture. Shekar…
Comix.one has partnered with HP’s Graphics Solutions Business and its global network of Print Service Providers to relaunch print-on-demand for independent comics, rolling out across the US, Canada, UK, EU and Australia from late 2026. For independent creators, this is a significant development. The independent comics world has spent years…
People of Print’s Gradspotters programme spotlights emerging graduate talent working in print and image-making. Our latest prospect is Joel Allen, a First Class Graphic Design graduate from the University of Portsmouth, ISTD member, and passionate advocate for letterpress, screen print, Risograph and the enduring relevance of tangible, tactile formats. Joel…
People of Print’s Gradspotters programme spotlights emerging graduate talent working in print and image-making. Our latest prospect is Liv Virnich, a Hamburg-born graphic designer and screen printer completing her BA at HBK Braunschweig, heading to a Masters at UdK Berlin, and currently working at Viadukt screen printing studio in Vienna.…
London-based illustrator and animator Shir Daniel draws postcards from memory of Hyde Park’s water areas, exchanges them with strangers for their own stories, and builds an animation and Risograph journal that asks how memory shapes our relationship with place. Shir Daniel moved to London and began spending time wandering the…
Recent graphic design graduate Scarlett McAdam makes a single handmade book about sentimental object attachment during one of the most turbulent periods of her own life, combining research, personal writing and photography into a publication that is as much a creative outlet as a final year project. The project began…