After studying architecture across the globe, and working for a couple of years in London, her passion for art, aesthetics, and craftsmanship, and her urge to create at a faster pace led Inês de Almeida e Paiva to put architectural practice on hold to found Fresca Studio in late 2020.…
Based in London, Anna Ruiz works with printmaking and print design to create unique hand-made images. With a background in the fast-paced fashion industry, she is now devoted to the slow and contemplative process of linocut, a relief printing technique, in which sight, sound, smell, and touch play an integral…
Lisa Moura describes herself “as an introvert who uses her work as a medium to speak for herself.” What it says, however, is far from self-indulgent. Her thoughtful, gently experimental work across visual identities, print and publication designs, posters and more demonstrate how her design is driven not just by…
POP Member and printmaker Kim Minuti is excited to launch a bespoke collection of prints via The London Artisan. A printmaker based in South East London, Kim’s work encourages us to take note of the small things, in the places that surround and shape us. Her work embraces abstract patterns…
Artist, designer and illustrator Shirien Damra has created a mural for Immigrant Day of Resilience, which was celebrated on 15 April as a day assigned to honour the strength of immigrant communities in the US in the face of a long history of marginalisation. Damra, who is based in Chicago…
Anna Hermsdorf is a linocut printmaker from Germany. She started practising linocut back in 2018, and a few months ago she finally quit her day job as a designer at an agency to become fully self-employed. In late 2018 Anna created her first ‘whimsical girl’ print. The piece was composed…
This month we’re excited to present a selection of monoprint projects from our POP community. From innovative artworks that incorporate organic forms, to mixed-media collaged pieces, and collaborative projects, our members have used monoprinting techniques to bring a unique visual language to their prints. Kim Minuti: Embossed Monoprints A characteristic…
When Blockforest, the artistic persona of printmaker Mike Black, was asked if his work Call of the Batsquatch could be used on the cover of mythologist and modern-day bard, Dr Martin Shaw’s upcoming book Smoke Hole, he was beyond thrilled. As an artist who draws great inspiration from myth, legend, and…
John L. Wilkinson is an illustrator and designer based in London. His work explores themes of folklore and mythology in a faux woodcut style, while often incorporating decorative elements and typography. John’s education and career path has been a bit of a winding one. He went to film school at…
Massimo Spadari grew up in the Italian North-Eastern countryside, where as a child he loved to watch animals, bugs, and all forms of life. Today, the nature he witnessed throughout his childhood continues to play a big role in his life, influencing his work as a printmaker. In 2014, he…
Talinolou is a Swiss-based printmaker and illustrator. After partaking in an apprenticeship as a graphic designer, and conducting an internship in Amsterdam, in 2019 Talinolou started studying for a diploma in Switzerland. However, when in Ppring 2020 Covid hit the world and the first lockdown came, she used the new…
Over the past year, letterpress printmaker and designer, Dafi Kuhne, has been working on a project called The Absurdity of the Moment; a series of 10 large (70x100cm) letterpress printed posters. The posters have all been produced from hand-cut linoleum and hot metal type, and printed in up to 10…
Recently launched on our brand new crowdfunding platform for independent publications, In Pereptuum, is Plastikcomb Magazine (PCM) 2.0. The publication is a biannual alternative art magazine that explores experimental editorial design based on featured artist’s work. PCM’s founder is self-taught artist and graphic designer, Aaron Beebe, who decided to…
Post Typography is not, as you might expect, a type foundry; nor is it “post” lettering (it uses a lot of it, in fact, in work across print, digital and conceptual design)—it’s a creative studio that we’ve long admired. There’s a hell of a lot of thought behind what the…
Parisian studio and type foundry Violaine & Jérémy was founded by the eponymous Violaine Orsoni and Jérémy Schneider in 2012 when Schneider had just graduated, and Orsoni left behind a job as head of production in an advertising agency. Since then, the pair have developed a gorgeously distinctive look across…
The Japan Series is the latest set of letterpress goodies from Manchester-based Dotto Studio. Created during lockdown by Dotto founder and designer Dani Molyneux, the series offers an escape reminiscent of a beautiful trip to Japan, with a focus on moments and memories. Featuring four places: Kyoto Rain, Tokyo Lights,…
Vanessa and Valentin are the faces behind the agency, Atelier Hourra. They are two French creatives creating from and living in rural South of France. The duo work as graphic designers for local brands and companies, as well as printing their own illustrations. Besides their clients projects, they also carve…
Lucy Merriman is an East London-based artist and designer. Her fine art training started at Bournville College of Art, Birmingham, and later continued with a BA in Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University. Upon graduating, Lucy moved to London, and in 1992 established her first print studio in Shoreditch where…
Like many people, there came a time in Ben Greengrass’ career where he felt a little disillusioned: at best, he really fancied a change, at worst, he was concerned that the branding and packaging work he’d been doing for the likes of Umbro, Unilever and Heineken maybe didn’t matter too…
What unites The Deftones, Fela Kuti, Peter Saville, Shabazz Palaces and zine-making? Music is the obvious answer, but what we’re clumsily getting at here is all of the above’s pioneering, future-changing unity of sound and design, be that graphic design, technological innovation, moving image or fashion. The intersection of music…