Port Harcourt-based documentary photographer Chukwudi Nwachukwu follows fishermen on the Andoni River waterways through repeated visits, capturing the quiet labour, physical effort and dignity of lives built on fragile wooden canoes and deep familiarity with the water. Each morning, a fisherman unties his canoe. He paddles out onto the Andoni…
South Korea-based designer Hwain Jie translates musical sampling into a typographic system, building each letter of the word SAMPLE on a 5×5 grid and running it through four cycles of iterative exchange until every character contains traces of the others. Sampling in music means taking something, changing it and passing…
Independent brand designer Izzy Poirier leads a large-scale editorial project between the Ottawa Design Club and New York Design Club, building a story-led publication with silver and clear inks, lenticular inserts and a typographic system that mirrors the project’s core idea: meaning that is not immediately visible but revealed through…
Minneapolis printmaker Amanda Huber launches a grassroots block printing initiative from a spare bedroom during the ICE occupation, block printing on reclaimed apparel and raising over $32,500 for mutual aid across Minneapolis communities affected by ICE. The first print was a reclaimed sweatshirt that already said “PLANTS” across it. Amanda…
Athens-based design studio Sputnik reimagines the printed brochure as a puzzle for a physical rehabilitation practice, cutting four typographic layouts in half, mixing the pieces and placing them inside each other so patients can experience the satisfaction of reassembly. The idea is precise in its logic. REHAB is a physical…
New York-based Thai graphic designer Supatida Sutiratana develops an experimental risograph poster series that transforms emotional entrapment, regret and affection into fragmented typographic compositions that sit between language and feeling. The word trap tends to carry a single meaning: something bad. Supatida Sutiratana is more interested in the ambivalence. “TRAP…
London-based artist Alfie Wright uses analogue photography to connect queer histories with queer futures, exploring cruising as sacred ritual and the subversive power of sexual deviance as an act of resistance. The public toilet as promised land. The park at midnight as sanctuary. Alfie Wright is interested in the spaces…
California-based South Asian visual artist Sneha Gindodiya paints a woman reaching toward a fading Persian and Kashmiri rug, building layered acrylic surfaces that dissolve as deliberately as the cultural memories they hold. Textiles are portable histories. Persian and Kashmiri rugs carry stories of labour, geometry and devotion across generations and…
Art director Sergey Zhigarev brings the printed matchday programme back to a Russian football club, pairing a strict typographic identity with a season-long series of illustrated posters that have grown from club publication into a recognisable visual language in their own right. The printed matchday programme has been quietly disappearing.…
Moscow-based illustrator Pashoot Ka creates a series of Procreate illustrations about Peter the Stone, a character who never moves while the world around him constantly changes, drawing from a found stone and a period of personal anxiety to build something quietly philosophical and quietly funny. In 2023, Pashoot Ka found…
Brighton-based printmaker John Parkinson, known as Parky, brings colour and community spirit to a new junction in East Brighton, incorporating Edward Bawden-influenced angular forms and the graphic plant language of Angie Lewin into a spray-painted celebration of local life. Where Whitehawk and Kemptown meet, the road layout has changed. Through-traffic…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Croatian graphic designer and visual artist Ivan Križan develops a series of digitally printed art photographs that isolate details from natural forms, placing them on the boundary between abstraction and figuration and rethinking what abstraction actually means. The word abstract is commonly used in art to mean something unreal, something…
Dublin-based printmaker Eimearjean McCormack presents a new series of fifty-eight limited edition risograph prints on Munken Paper, recently exhibited at The Royal Hibernian Academy, exploring the intersection of lived experience, memory and imagination through layered impressions of the natural world. The space Eimearjean McCormack works in is, by her own…
French, London-based artist Delphine Lebourgeois launches four limited edition prints that send flower-armoured rocket ballerinas into battle, each one hiding a small inner child beneath the defence. Delphine Lebourgeois’s warrior women have always moved as a troop. The Ballerina Collection sends four new recruits to join them, each one armed…
Greek art studio 11 Modern Muses, founded by Alexandra Tiligadi in Patras, extends four years of planner design into an undated collection that blends psychology, poetry and structure for people who don’t use a planner every day but want somewhere meaningful to land when they do. Not everyone uses a…
Nigerian-born ceramic artist and founder of Terravia Ceramics, Umar Abdulrasheed reinterprets traditional African pottery through a contemporary sculptural language, working between Nigeria and the United Kingdom to create hand-built and wheel-thrown forms that carry cultural memory through material restraint. Clay in Nigeria is not a neutral material. It is connected…
Australian photographic artist and creative director Sarah Louise Kinsella takes gel plate printing, street poster scraps and spray paint to the track, creating five handcrafted livery designs for the Ferrari 296 Challenge race series across Australia. These Ferraris are not road cars. They exist solely to be pushed to their…
Berlin-based artist and spatial designer Sabine Kelka translates the visual language of electrical circuit diagrams into large-scale silkscreen prints on textile, turning engineering notation into something spatial, physical and quietly disorienting. Electrical circuit diagrams have their own rigorous visual grammar: standardised symbols, precise connections, a language designed for clarity and…
Book artist, designer and writer Ruchika Nambiar produces a limited edition of five artist books that make a therapy transcript fully available and entirely unreadable at the same time, using mirrors and a flag book structure to explore the gap between transparency and vulnerability. In 2018, Ruchika Nambiar recorded a…