We’ve been following the career of Indian-born designer and art director Simoul Alva for a few years now, and her tenacity and talent never fails to impress us. Now based in New York and working across identity design, storytelling and visual strategy. She’s previously worked with Pentagram, Sagmeister & Walsh,…
This month we’re super stoked to present a selection of Giclee prints by the talented members of our community. Our members have used the digital printing method in exciting and innovative ways, bringing to life their illustrations and designs with a high-quality finish. Stell: DROOL and Hensteethstore Abstract collage artist,…
Off the Press Collective (OTPC) is a small artist run screen printing studio based in sunny Suffolk. 5 years ago, 3 friends; Sam, Anna, and James, threw together a bunch of their favourite local artists, both up and coming and established, to celebrate film in their favourite indie cinema, and,…
It goes without saying that a huge number of those who know their way around a printing press (or Photoshop) are also often pretty handy on decks, too (or indeed, VirtualDJ). Music and visual communication go together like, well, Hall and Oates, or PJ and Duncan. That’s why we’ve drawn…
Michel Rabagliati’s PAUL AT HOME has been described as “the perfect pandemic antidote – the opportunity to dive into someone’s anxiety and loneliness.” Pandemic or no, it’s an unputdownable read of a graphic novel that speaks to its readers on many levels: as sons or daughters, guilty that they’re not…
Magnus Mudrack is an image-maker, born and based in Dublin, Ireland. His work, which Magnus describes as “the love child of Paul Rand and Karel Martens”, currently celebrates the lives and antics of our pawed pals. His interest in visual culture was sparked when he fell in love with the…
Come and celebrate 6 years of self-publishing and the launch of our 72nd issue of Posterzine with live signing and screen printing at Signature Brew, East London, on Saturday 28th August 21. Our 72nd issue will be raising awareness for The Survivors Trust and will feature the work of Elizabeth…
55 Prints is a screen printing studio based in sunny St Leonards On Sea, UK. Although still a fairly new set up, they have had the pleasure of collaborating on some amazing projects with artists local and afar. Director and owner Stephen Clements has a background in Art & Design, and…
Andrew Witt, who creates under the name Rue Draws (based upon a childhood nickname), is a practising illustrator and artist who over the past 18 months has taught himself to letterpress print. During lockdown, Andrew designed and made a letterpress system from scratch, including the lettering blocks, a chase system,…
Barcelona-based Raquel Quevedo describes her practice as a “living, changing, ephemeral organism; an entity with an ambiguous existence that transits between the frontier of reality and fiction.” Her stunning, strange and beguiling work is often formed from experiments that generate data; playing with mutations of form and colour and “surreal…
Based in Vienna, Michael Wegerer is as an independent artist with a background in printmaking. In 2016, he founded the screen printing Atelier Michael Wegerer. The studio acts as an artist’s studio for his independent projects, as well as a screen printing workshop, Quint Screen Print, for commissioned work, internships…
Codo Mono is a new carefully crafted monospaced typeface that features a range of stylistic alternatives, designed by Adam Grealsey of Colt Type Co. The font family is full of character, the most notable being the uppercase ‘C’ with its pronounced underbite. Although this is a monospace font, a style…
Generally speaking, we’d guess PoP readers to be design-nerd-types, into zines, counterculture, music etc etc—and so we’d wager that there aren’t many who haven’t heard of David Carson, the man as infamous for his use of Dingbats as for his pioneering of “grunge” graphics and typography. You know someone’s a…
Roby (Loredana Gengler Roby) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brussels. It was during her studies in Lyon that she first discovered artisan printing techniques, and fell in love with craftsmanship associated with it. After studying Graphic Design in France, Roby was admitted to the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine…
Alastair Keady is a graphic designer and screen printer based in Dublin. He first experimented with printmaking at university, when as a Visual Communications student (at the National College of Art and Design, and then the Royal College of Art) he worked with letterpress printing. However, over the following decades…
It’s likely most of us have heard of Johnny Cash, Fidel Castro and Nick Cave, but Emile Griffith? Not so much. Perhaps that might change, however, thanks to German graphic novelist and illustrator Reinhard Kleist, who having already published books on Cash, Castro and Cave, has now crafted a superb…
Emily Vanns is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in East London. Her printmaking practice focuses primarily on linocuts, taking inspiration from an evolving library of imagery including illuminated manuscripts, early Renaissance paintings, metaphysical and surrealist art, and folklore. Emily graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art from Kingston…
Creating work that revolves around female characters, Manjit Thapp is something of an Instagram sensation. Having only graduated from her illustration course at Camberwell College of Arts in 2016, she’s racked up an impressive client list including Penguin Random House, Google, Apple, Tate, TIME and Stylist; and her work has…
In Issue 71 of our monthly publication, Posterzine, we introduce the curvy lines and juicy lettering of LeBassis. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the illustrator and lettering artist has worked on projects including a Pride sticker set for Snapchat and slogans for Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Leandro started out working for advertising agencies before…
Beloved by everyone from punks to grebos, indie filmmakers, grungers, viral meme dog-celebrities, Avril Lavigne and a large percentage of suburban teenagers, skateboarding has had a hugely significant impact on culture. Film, music, fashion, photography and fine art all owe a fair bit to skateboarding, as is demonstrated in a…