Spanish illustrator Ave Félix applies the logic of the plot twist to everyday reality, building a surreal illustration series that flips the assumed relationship between knives and vegetables, dogs and bones, paintings and observers, to ask what would happen if the world worked in reverse. A plot twist, in narrative…
Edinburgh illustrator Blythe MacDonald of Little Yellow Scribbles creates a custom gift voucher illustration for Ciccetta’s, Edinburgh’s only 100% gluten-free gelateria, bringing two female-led independent businesses together through a character-led design completed in two weeks. It started with an Instagram conversation. Blythe MacDonald of Little Yellow Scribbles and Becca of…
Graphic designer and poster artist Mikhail Lychkovskiy held a solo poster exhibition at PANDA Platforma in Berlin from March to April 2026, with a screen-printed exhibition poster produced at Bankov Print Space in Prague combining digital freewrite letters, acrylic paint on crumpled paper, and two contrasting typefaces. The name was…
Thessaloniki-based branding and packaging studio Boo Republic designs a product line for Ergon Foods that translates centuries of Greek culinary heritage into contemporary packaging, drawing from traditional regional weaving and embroidery patterns and printed in bi-colour offset with blind embossing on Old Mill Avorio and Fedrigoni Arena Rough. The brief…
On 6 June 2026, Derby came together to celebrate a remarkable milestone. As part of the city’s ongoing 50:50 Twinning celebrations, People of Print and Department Store & Co invited creatives, designers, illustrators and local residents to explore a simple but powerful question: What does connection mean to you? The…
Pennsylvania-based mixed media artist and designer Christina Galbiati cuts, tears and overlaps individual Helvetica letters into dense xerographic collages on board, building compositions from mundane expressions like “Blah,” “Ugh” and “Hmm” to explore sensory overload, capitalism and the irreplaceable value of the human hand. Christina Galbiati could do this digitally.…
Florida letterpress and specialty print shop M.C. Pressure launches a custom hat with a pencil sleeve sewn into the side, sourced locally in St. Augustine and available in two colourways, because the best ideas need something to write them on. The idea behind the M.C. Pressure Thinking Cap is straightforward…
Brighton-based artist Beth Gibbons takes a single work and asks how many forms it can inhabit simultaneously, existing as a silkscreen print, a 3D-printed object, a projection and a photographic print, challenging the fixed hierarchies that confine art to one context or one value. The text arrived in her sleep:…
Indonesian visual designer and illustrator Aurelia Karina develops a personal series of digital illustrations built on disproportionate human forms and bold contrasting colour, inspired by plus-size yoga culture and a desire to express what words cannot always reach. In 2018, Aurelia Karina’s mother started sharing videos of plus-size women doing…
Art, Print & Publishing at Mega Press / SVA RisoLAB For over two decades, Panayiotis Terzis has been making work at the intersection of drawing, painting, printmaking and publishing from the heart of New York City. Born in Greece and rooted in Brooklyn since art school, he runs Mega Press…
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,…