Lena Yokoyama is a Japanese/Austrian illustrator, printmaker, and ‘visual translator’. Having grown up mostly in Japan and Austria, with some time spent some in France and the US, Lena is now living in London, where she also completed her degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2020. Drawing…
Type design company Swiss Typefaces, which is based in—you guessed it, Switzerland (Vevey to be exact)—has really amped up what we think of as a type specimen with its new book Euclid-Typeface Mystery No. 1. The book comes in the wake of the past few years’ gradual additions to the…
Ridge + Roots has always been a passion project inspired by adventure, wellness, and growth. Towards the end of 2020, this concept of growth took on a new role as Gina released a series of carving and printmaking sets to help share her love of print. “I have always believed…
80sixed began as an outlet for its founder, Alex Herber, to escape the mundane world we occupy. With a childhood dream of becoming an artist, but with the inevitably of life somehow pushing us in the opposite direction of our dreams, Alex accidentally fell into a career in engineering, research,…
“The lockdown period was a magical moment for me” says Fabio Marangoni, a printmaker based in Padova, Italy. He continues; “What at first seemed like a forced effort to slow down, made me rediscover the free time that I hadn’t had for a long time”. This provided the opportunity for…
Karol Dybalski is a graphic designer based in Brampton, Canada. A graduate of Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology in Toronto, he joined Bruce Mau Design as an intern in 2014, and has since gone on to become a Senior Designer. Swiss Coasters is a side project that Karol…
I’ve been a fan of Grant Gasser’s work for a while; not least because whenever we chat, the majority of the phone call is made up of rambling tangents rather than just talking shop. Those tangents are often related to music: like many graphic designers, Gasser’s practice isn’t just about…
Issue 65 of our monthly poster-come-magazine publication features the work of the Godfather of 90s skate culture, Ed Templeton. Ed has achieved legendary status as not only a professional skateboarder, but also as an artist and street photographer. Inside, we catch up with the man of many talents about the links between…
As with pretty much everything else we used to experience IRL, the current work in progress show from the Royal College of Art in London was forced to move online as a digital platform for the first time. But rather than see that as a problematic measure, the students and…
Jordan Gadeke is a graphic designer, artist, and student at the University of Gloucestershire, working with branding and illustration. Describing himself as a “fidgeting nightmare”, being creative was the only vice that kept him still and focused as a child. “In my early years, I was often told by the…
“My work in printmaking helps me connect real to imagined memories, and my life experiences to my heritage” says Dana Harris Seeger, a printmaker and educator based in San Jose, California. Growing up as a second generation Baltic American, Dana has always tried to connect the artefacts she has acquired…
Across his poster design visual identity work, publication design, exhibition graphics and a raft of custom type faces; Thomas Huot-Marchand’s work is characterised by a sense of timeless class. His work always looks contemporary, but the craft and nuance—his marriage of rigour and impact—make the world feel both fresh, and…
Originally from Poland and now based in Manchester, UK, Danielle Rhoda is an illustrator, animator, and “maker of things“. Danielle’s work documents and catalogues “certain moments” she has witnessed, reflecting the people she sees in everyday life, her travels, and her surroundings. Graduating from Manchester School of Art in 2018…
Like so many illustrators and designers, it was music that shunted art as a hobby into art as a career for Tom Kariv. However, unlike so many, he’s since worked with the likes of Major Lazer, Chronixx, Walshy Fire, Lil Dicky, Stones Throw Records, Raw Tapes Records and Guns n…
Nicole Rose had a great education in Art and Design; doing an art foundation at Newham, followed by a BA in Graphic Design at Central St Martins (1989-1992), London. “Both courses were extremely creative and we had the opportunity to cover all aspects of graphics and associated practices and were…
Rosie Leech is an illustrator, printmaker, and ceramicist based in the UK. Her work is extremely small and precise, pushing the extents of scale within printmaking, and reflecting her fascination with material processes. Graduating little over a year ago with a BA(Hons) in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art, Rosie…
Prints by the Bay is the printmaking practice of Nicole Purdie, an illustrator and printmaker from Dorset. She trained in Illustration at the Arts University Bournemouth, spending several years after graduating in 2007 creating murals and art for live events and festivals. Nicole started experimenting with the linocut technique back…
Paris-based artist Cyril Galmiche is in the midst of a pretty niche, yet beautifully expansive project: it aims to “push the circular shape to its ultimate limits.” Galmiche works across photography, film and other media, but the side of his practice devoted to drawing is dubbed I-I-I-I-I-I. The title is…
French illustration and printmaking duo Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller invite us to explore their universe of prints that not only champion originality but also leave viewers to interpret what they see and decipher the hidden complexities of the seemingly innocent illustrations. United by their love for drawing and printmaking,…
Roderick van Hasselt started screen printing in 2020, after he became a member of Mesh Print Club in Rotterdam. “For me screen printing began as a way to add a new creative layer to my photo prints” says Roderick. His trademark style incorporates bright, neon inks, and emphasises the textures…