Seattle print artist and art director Ren Riley launches Fable & Fame, an upcycled micro fashion brand that merges medieval manuscripts, tattoo culture and 90s grunge into garments that treat sustainability, locality and the people who wear them as part of the art. Ren Riley and Ryan Axxel met and…
For its tenth edition, the Independent Paper Show moves north for the first time, landing at Soho House Manchester on June 9 and 10, 2026, with the industry’s most important paper producers, suppliers and makers under one roof. Tickets are free. There is something fitting about the Independent Paper Show…
Chinese-American contemporary spiritual artist Fung Cheung paints dreams, visions and psychedelic experience onto found mirrors in a solo show at Nepenthes New York, making the invisible spiritual dimension directly visible in the physical world. Every mirror Fung Cheung paints on is a found one. The decision is deliberate: rather than…
Denver-based lowbrow pop surrealist Blood & Gold reverses the production process, creating digital designs first and working backwards into linocut block prints to make something no machine reproduction could replicate: evidence of human hands. Blood & Gold builds his designs on an iPad first. Then, instead of sending them to…
Manchester-born, internationally-formed designer Patricia Shea has spent a lifetime developing a colour-saturated, maximalist pattern practice that began with watercolour on paper in New York and now exists across fabric, wallcoverings and digital print on demand. Patricia Shea did not set out to develop a unique style. “Developing a unique style…
Designer and researcher Nathan Spainhour turns a decade of field photography across South Carolina barbecue restaurants into a collage-based book that treats hand-painted signs, improvised typography and roadside architecture as evidence of cultural memory, not aesthetic curiosity. South Carolina barbecue is not simply a regional food. “Careers are made by…
Finnish multidisciplinary artist and designer Superflinda has been building a limited-edition risograph alphabet since 2023, one letter at a time, each one hand-drawn from her background in hip-hop, sign painting and handlettering and transformed by the Riso process into something the design alone could never produce. The Riso Alphabet began…
LA-based graphic designer Shengjie Wu challenges the idea that golf is a sport for the wealthy with Birdie, a hypothetical branding and packaging project that makes the game feel genuinely approachable for a new generation of players. Spend a weekend morning at a public golf course and the crowd might…
Brooklyn-based artist PD Packard transforms flat printed kozo paper into three-dimensional pleated sculptures, combining printmaking, Japanese bookbinding and origami structure to create dynamic forms that expand the printed surface into space. A print, conventionally, stays flat. PD Packard’s work begins where that convention ends. Starting with original patterns designed and…
Mumbai-based illustrator Ayushi Saria redesigns a deck of Indian playing cards from 1922, reclaiming the format through a modern Indian lens that celebrates brown skin, architectural heritage and the royalty of contemporary India. In 1922, a deck of playing cards called the Dilkhus was printed in India. The artwork was…
Dutch artist Michel van Collenburg turns the ransom note, one of the most primitive forms of collage, into a series of paper-on-paper works that ask hard questions about love, expectation, and the patterns that bind us. It started with a breakup. Seven years of relationship ended, and Michel van Collenburg’s…
Chennai-based multidisciplinary graphic designer and art director Malavika Natesh builds a self-initiated zine from mixed media collage, typography and personal writing, creating a visual piece that carries meaning rather than just surface appeal. The title is an intimate address. Letter to the World borrows from Emily Dickinson, but Malavika Natesh’s…
Honduran artist and illustrator Hernan Ramos turned a side project for publishing drawings after work into a full career built on music festival posters, vibrant chaos and a daily ritual of picking up a random book and seeing what it wakes up. Gago Illustra began as somewhere to put the…
Printmaker, book artist and paper conservator Hannah Fray develops sculptural concertina books during her residency at the Regional Print Centre Wrexham, merging etching, screenprint, spray paint and drawing into hybrid cityscapes that debut at Bristol Artists’ Book Event in June 2026. The cities Hannah Fray builds in her books do…
UAL Animation graduate Erin Tilly sculpts small polymer clay creatures named Dream Weaver, Bat Prince, Precious, Dragonfly and Plepple, each one a strange, adorable reminder that life is play and magic is available to anyone willing to step into it. Observe the natural world long enough and the silliness becomes…
Krakow-based graphic designer and creative technologist Mikołaj Pyka uses custom p5.js code to slice photographs into rhythmic, layered fragments, dissolving the familiar into something the eye has to feel rather than read. The brain is fast. Show it a photograph and it categorises before it truly sees: tree, face, street.…
Greek illustrator Nasia Stylidou, aka Decomposition, brings a six-year-old vision to life as an 85-piece holographic screenprint, placing a spiked-armored woman knight at the centre of a collapsing nebula through a collaboration that merges conceptual image-making with meticulous craft. The image of a knight riding into battle is almost always…
Beijing-born, New York-based artist Yuchen Lu designs a contemporary interpretation of the Tibetan tiger rug, produced by hand in Gyantse County, Tibet, reinterpreting one of the region’s oldest motifs through a fluid composition that honours tradition while carrying the emotional complexity of the present. The tiger has been present in…
At OFFF Festival 2026 in Barcelona, the conversation around creativity felt charged this year. Among the standout voices was Nils Leonard, co-founder of Uncommon Creative Studio, whose talk cut through the noise with a mix of honesty, intensity, and conviction. Uncommon has built a reputation as one of the most…
London-based graphic designer and illustrator Višnja Ostojić has been building an ongoing illustrated portrait of the city since 2019, drawing pubs, streets and statues in vibrant, detailed iPad illustration that captures London as she has come to know it. When Višnja Ostojić moved from the Netherlands to London in 2019,…