Sydney-based artist and designer Jaz Lynch hand-builds one-off sculptural lamps from paper pulp without moulds or templates, integrating electrical cords into the form and finishing each piece with a surface treatment drawn from printmaking to create objects that sit between functional design and art. Each lamp in Jaz Lynch’s Electric…
Istanbul-based graphic designer and illustrator Eda Çağıl Çağlarırmak brings the Adidas Runners community into one of Istanbul’s most iconic spaces, painting a 4.5 by 3.1 metre mural that captures the layered spirit of the Grand Bazaar and the sense of togetherness that running creates. The Grand Bazaar has been in…
Stockholm-based artist and graphic designer Andy Voitka turns creative paralysis into a 69-page self-published book, using the stuckness itself as starting material and arriving at a maximally tactile printed object with covers made from recycled LED panel plastic. Andy Voitka was stuck. His graduation project at Beckmans College of Design…
New campaign by KesselsKramer uses handwritten local tips to guide Amsterdam’s visitors across the city toward the Stedelijk. Amsterdam has a high concentration of museums and cultural attractions. International tourists and Dutch day-trippers visiting the city have plenty of choice, but limited time and increasingly tighter budgets. So how do…
Cairo-based visual and graphic designer Ahmed Elnafad documents graffiti, street markings, layered posters and erased messages across Egypt in a 358-page hand-bound photobook, treating city walls as unstable public archives constantly written on, erased and rewritten. Ahmed Elnafad was sixteen when he painted a wall with friends and got chased…
Louisville-based printmaker Emily Ciecka creates her largest and most complex reduction print to date, a five-layer piece featuring a Killdeer protecting her chicks in a field of poppies, inspired by a friend’s story of watching over a nesting bird during a difficult time. A friend sent Emily Ciecka a photograph…
New York-based Indian designer Seher Anand creates a research-led printed book that examines migration through architecture, passports, border systems, national symbols and carried objects, treating every design decision as part of the narrative it is building. The frustration that generated Migrant Landscape was specific: migration is too often framed as…
Quebec printmaker Sonia Landry, working as La Hache, creates a limited edition print inspired by wave patterns on the sand of the Côte-Nord coast, layering sheet music beneath fluid curves printed in a gradient from phthalo blue to fluorescent lime green. It was a walk along a beach on Quebec’s…
Factory Originals publishes a limited edition numbered memoir from former Motörhead PA Dan Hawcroft, pairing raw rock ‘n’ roll storytelling with print design by ZIP Design, a handmade slipcase by W MacCarthy and Sons, GF Smith Colorplan endpapers, commissioned illustrations and over five hours of companion podcast. Dan Hawcroft spent…
Athens-based art director and painter Christie Photopoulou creates handmade greeting cards for the Maria Callas Museum gift shop, drawing the colours, atmosphere and feeling of the museum’s three opera rooms directly into one-of-a-kind acrylic mini paintings. Christie Photopoulou was given access to the Maria Callas Museum in Athens after hours,…
Transmedia artist, researcher and Assistant Professor Feixue Mei reimagines the myth of Mulan as a visual inquiry into the lives of women from China’s post-one-child-policy generation, exploring the double-bind between professional achievement and domestic tradition through hybrid physical and digital storytelling. The myth of Mulan has always been about performance:…
London and India-based visual artist Kirti Virmani creates a mixed media installation of photography, photo-polymer etchings on steel, ceramic sculpture and pigment prints that questions who built the walls designed to enclose women, and whose gaze they were built to control. The Parkota is a boundary wall, the kind that…
London-based printmaker Oceana Masterman-Smith transforms paper into tactile sculpture through blind embossing, hand-carving designs into lino and pressing them into relief to create prints that shift and change as light moves across their surface. Most prints are read through ink. Oceana Masterman-Smith’s prints are read through light. Blind embossing is…
Manchester-based conceptual illustrator and lifelong pacemaker patient Ollie Hirst creates a series of hand-drawn editorial illustrations for BBC Science Focus on the times AI has failed spectacularly, using cyberpunk neons against greyscale to put human emotion at the heart of a story about machine trust. The brief was precise and…
Design and creative director Raphael O’Selle has spent five years developing XIAI, a sci-fi comic universe rooted in memory, ancestry and identity, launching openly online ahead of a Kickstarter campaign for Book One in September 2026. The question came from watching. Raphael O’Selle grew up on Ghost in the Shell,…
Berlin and Hiroshima-based artist Juno Ilkun creates a riso-printed illustrated report about a real former West German diplomat, juxtaposing his valuable art collection with his recorded opinions to examine the failed de-Nazification of West Germany and the question of who the country sent to represent it abroad. The inspiration was…
US-based artist and graphic designer Errin Ironside makes abstract paper collages from repurposed books and magazines, navigating grief, fragmentation and the residue of loss through an intuitive process that transforms unease into something constructive. Each collage begins with a small pile of papers. Errin Ironside curates them from her stash,…
UK-based food photographer, stylist and art director Costas Millas creates a 64-page limited edition art book of conceptual food photography using only black and white subjects, hand-sewn with an exposed spine, as a deliberate act of craft in a world increasingly shaped by content and AI generation. Costas Millas became…
Newcastle-based freelance graphic designer Millie Carmel Jobson turns a sketchbook collage experiment with GF Smith Colorplan paper samples into a four-colour screen print made at Incubate Printmaking in the Ouseburn, letting imperfection and intuition do the heavy lifting. It started with paper samples. A set of GF Smith Colorplan swatches…
NTU Associate Professor and DEVIL Lab founder Lisa Winstanley brings together three designers from three continents in a 156-page limited edition publication that is part manifesto, part archive, part research, and designed to be torn apart and used. The dust jacket is neon orange and purple. The cover beneath it…