London-based artist Lizzie King‘s latest project was created to celebrate World Skate Day. The t-shirt, available until 19th July 2021 on Print Social, an online pre-sale platform that allows creators to sell their ideas in a sustainable way, is inspired by the famous skate parks of Venice Beach. Lizzie studied Fine…
Enkel Art Studio is a monoprinting studio based in the Netherlands formed of duo Marijn Vink and Esther Rozendal; two printmakers who enjoy playing with shape and colour. “For us there is value in craft(wo)manship and original and affordable art. That’s why we started our collaboration called Enkel Art Studio…
In this month’s issue of Posterzine – the A4 zine come A1 poster – we catch up with illustrator Carissa Potter Carlson, AKA People I’ve Loved, whose artwork illustrates the modern human experience. From her backyard studio in Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband and young daughter, Carissa creates her designs which…
Based in Ypsilanti, MI USA, Ingrid Ankerson is an educator in graphic design at a nearby community college, as well as a practising graphic designer, illustrator, and letterpress printer. She enjoys exploring the potential of typography through repetition and subtle movement of small metal type on the bed of her…
While exotic beach holidays are unlikely to be on the horizon for a while yet, a lot of us are planning “staycations”, or at least a little bit of time off for the forthcoming months when we all keep our fingers permanently crossed that the rain holds off. So without…
Chau Luong’s work merges contemporary impulses and traditional influences to create work that’s striking, beautiful and refreshingly original. Focusing on cross-discipline collaboration, the Berlin-based artist applies her superbly crafted illustration and design work across everything from fashion projects to branding, film posters, editorial commissions for the likes of Lenny Letter…
Working under the name Mary Universe, Mary Ponomareva is a visual artist, multidisciplinary designer and researcher based in Amsterdam working across graphic design, visual art, research and hybrid media. She describes her use of graphic design, virtual reality, CGI and 3D modelling as tools “to envision and question possible futures,”…
A treasure trove of playful eccentricity, with a small dose of high drama, Artwork by Blondie (the pseudonym of Charlotte Smith) is a London-based artist who specialises in mixed media collage, print, and graphic design. Heavily influenced by sci-fi, fantasy and nature as well as her intensely surreal dreams, Charlotte…
Black Bee Studios (BBS) was born out of what was, for most, an extremely testing 2020. Becci Salmon, the face behind BBS, is a Design Lead at leading London advertising agency FCB Inferno. The lockdown of 2020 was an incredibly tough time for ad agencies in London and it saw…
No, it isn’t just you: getting back to “normal” life isn’t the purely joyful, seamless transition we might have hoped for. Yes, it’s great that pubs are back; that we can go to the cinema again; that 24-hour Asda isn’t the only nightlife destination in East London. But for many…
Artist and designer Yinka Ilori has created a new campaign for British Red Cross, centred around a colourful 15ft mural in East London. This is the third in a series of high-profile artist collaborations with the charity that have taken place throughout the pandemic to “celebrate kindness in the community”…
While there’s been a few long overdue celebrations of women type designers, we’ve not yet come across a comprehensive look at a different issue around gender and type: the relationship between gender stereotypes and letterforms themselves: the relationship between gender stereotypes and letterforms themselves. As the author of a new…
Aqui Thami is a Janajati artist from the Himalayas, currently living and working in Bombay. She uses social exchanges and develops safe spaces to position art as a medium of healing in community, self-funding her work and realising it through collaboration. Aqui has a masters in Dalit and Tribal Studies…
VrijFormaat (FreeFormat) is collaboration between Dutch graphic designers Joke van de Fliert and Esther van de Visch. The duo’s first contact was made at the Utrecht School of the Arts, where by chance their easels were standing side by side at a painting seminar. They soon discovered they had more…
Loris Pernoux’s typefaces are characterised by a sense of delighting in extermination: his letterforms feel striking, unusual and yet highly versatile, too. The French typographer and graphic designer currently has two equally impressive fonts on show on his site: Langulaire, which launched in 20218, and the more recent Dolis. Langulaire…
Amy Mathews is a linocut printmaker based just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned degrees in Graphic Design and Advertising Journalism from Drake University, which is also where she studied printmaking under Phillip Chen (of Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago,…
Amsterdam-based creative agency Design & Practice has created the visual identity for new coloured creative paper range Olin Origins, in a project merging the studio’s graphic design expertise with its fine art background. Design & Practice is an Amsterdam-based operating design studio specialising in branding, graphic design and art direction,…
After studying Sociology and Graphic Design, Andi Rosenthal, currently a Vienna-based artist, focused his output on drawing, painting both canvas and walls, and some “crazy” animation projects before he landed on the planet of print. “In my opinion Print is a very down-to-earth kind of art. It has always been…
As the Euros rumbles on, the age-old marriage between beer and football seems stronger than ever—even in the face of unusual circumstances like enforced pub table service and not legally being allowed to belt out Three Lions. For this year’s European Championships, artists and designers including David Shrigley, Chris Simpson…
Illustrator and printmaker Kelly Belter’s first solo exhibition opened in Busan this month at CSB Gallery, running from June 5th to the 30th. The exhibition, titled Passage, explores the stages of the creative process through various forms of printmaking. The gallery is broken up into several distinct sections, which seek to…