Arizona-based playing card design studio Low Priority takes distressed vintage fabric as its starting point and goes further — scratching, scanning and assembling decks that treat the card as a home object and a record of emotional state. Playing card design has a long tradition of ornament and detail, but…
Thirty copies of a book about mustard pots. A record sleeve made from greyboard and metallised film. Feathers for a giant parrot. The finalists for this year’s Digital Printer Awards have been announced ahead of the ceremony in London on 12 November, and together they give a clear picture of…
Dutch illustrator Dorien Brouwers brought watercolour and ink to a direct mailer celebrating James Cropper’s Colours from Nature paper range, a project that tied Wainwright’s Lakeland fells to rosemary-dyed paper through illustration, die-cut landscape and considered design. James Cropper Creates is a platform for artists, makers and designers working with…
Over 250 independent makers open their virtual doors on 3–4 October, offering prints, ceramics, jewellery and more at up to 75% off… and the People of Print® membership community is well represented. Super Seconds Festival is back for its twelfth edition and it remains one of the most straightforward propositions…
Dutch graphic designer Raoul Wilke uses a mini residency at CODA in Apeldoorn to experiment with laser-cut paper stencils for screen printing, producing three intricate posters inspired by the city’s green surroundings in a process that is eco-friendly, highly detailed and faster than traditional photographic emulsion methods. Screen printing typically…
Amsterdam-based illustrator NoGood releases a self-published, crowdfunded 272-page monograph collecting five years of work, essays by Cory Doctorow, Douglas Rushkoff and others, and the thinking behind a practice rooted in retro technology, open-web counterculture and the politics of ownership. The NoGood Book took two years to make and kept changing…
Argentine-Chilean artist and RCA graduate Elisa Dublanc creates a series of hard ground etchings that explore encounter with nature through mark-making, meditation and the rhythms of transformation, printed in limited editions of 28 across studios in London and Santiago. Elisa Dublanc has been moved by the botanical world for as…
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,…