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…
This month we’re stoked to present a selection of poster designs by members of our Official POP community. From posters raising funds to support charitable causes, to gig promo, and learning a new language, our members have used the poster format alongside printmaking techniques including Risograph, screen print, and letterpress…
Linocut printmaker, Phillip Kingsbury, who creates under the name of The Wooden Spoon Press, has recently produced a series of linocut prints using classic films as inspiration. “I am trying to squeeze entire films into small 200mm x 150mm linocuts,” describes the printmaker. He continues; “It is great fun working…
Puma press is a graphic design studio and screen printing atelier run by artists Esther Vandenbroele, a painter, and Arne Wastyn, a graphic artist. Their screen printing studio in Antwerp (Belgium) is a place where both of their art practices come together, and where new ideas arise for designs, screen…
Agata Rawecka-Deelen is a Polish visual artist based in London. She received an MA in Printmaking and Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, and after completing her studies in Poland she partook in a residency at the famous lithographic Atelier Clot, Bramsen & Georges in Paris. Everyday…
London-based multidisciplinary studio Here Design has managed to sum up the simple pleasures of warm days, cool breezes and gentle sugar rushes in its designs for Gelupo Gelato, a new ice-cream recipe book by chef and restaurateur Jacob Kenedy. Here Design has been collaborating with Kenedy—chef/patron of Bocca di Lupo,…
Gloria Ceballos has recently launched a new series of cyanotype prints created using found materials from the river Thames, mainly plastics. During walks by the river, Gloria was moved to do something about the relentless waves of plastic waste washing up on the city’s shores. “As an avid beachcomber and…
If there’s anyone who can be billed as having shaped the album cover design of the 2010s (the tens?), it’s Leif Podhajsky. The Australian designer and artist most famously created work for Tame Impala; as well as working with the likes of Foals, The Horrors, Mount Kimbie, Bonobo, Kelis, London…
During 2021, linocut printmaker Sarah Payling, aka Printy Winty, has been experimenting with creating both simplistic and detailed prints using monochrome. Using multiple lino blocks, Sarah has been making space for the colour itself to do the hard work; “The colour is the hero here”, resulting in striking and bold pieces.…
Phil Gambrill of letterpress studio Fresh Lemon Print was recently invited to undertake the letterpress artist in residence position at North Metropolitan TAFE in the heart of Perth’s CBD. At the residency he explored many typographic shapes within their extensive wood type collection and ended up focusing on the ampersand…