Sumuyya Khader’s practice is a combination of illustration, drawing, and print works that predominantly explore place and identity. The Liverpool-based artist’s work is often influenced by the location she inhabits, while works are typically paper based and involve the layering of imagery to tell a story. “Communicating via a visual…
The Dafi Kühne Printing Show is a series of free educational letterpress printing videos by poster designer, educator, and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne. Hot off the press, Dafi shares his most secret printing recipes so that you can start cooking up your own letterpress prints! Between 2018 and 2020 Dafi…
Whether creating commercial illustrative narratives or self-directed projects, Valencia-based artist and illustrator Sergio Membrillas uses striking blocks of colour and bold shapes to develop a unique style that reminds us of the warmer summer days. It’s clear from a single glimpse that his knack for composition is something that resonates…
Zoe Anker describes herself as “a very much process led artist” who “loves to work in a playful and free manner”. Thus, she rarely produces a full edition of work, preferring to work with one off pieces, often a small mini range on various scales. This “capsule collection” type of…
If you’re yet to discover the Instagram account showmeyourprintshop, get over there, pronto. The account presents, as you’ve likely guessed from its name, print shops. They range from the pro to the hobbyist to the neat to the realistically all-over-the-shop, and there’s a great smattering of dog shots too, if…
Founded by Ella Rankin, a graphic designer based in Milton Keynes, England, Angel Design Studio‘s practice focuses on typographic posters, inspired by music and the desire to motivate others. Alongside this, Ella also works as a freelance graphic designer, offering branding services, logos, packaging, business cards, and web design. Growing…
Milan-based studio La Tigre has been running for some years now—it set up shop back in 2009—and recently got in touch to show off a raft of gorgeous new print pieces. Founded and directed by Luisa Milani and Walter Molteni, the studio describes its focus as “research-based,” closely collaborating with…
Due to the recent outbreak of STUPIDITY is a little, precious looking artist’s publication by Magdalena Wysocka and Claudio Pogo, the duo behind Outer Space Press. Their art practice is based on collecting and re-contextualising photography, found books, and other archival print material in order to create new visual narratives.…
The second publication fresh from Prelo Prints’ press is based on Dracole Waida, a pamphlet first published in Nüremberg in 1488. The booklet presents Vlad III’s, Voivode of Wallachia, various crimes prior to his death, and was used as a propaganda instrument. The popularity of the work is proven by…
Rose Wong’s sharp outlines, bold colours and carefully honed compositions delineate her very smart approach to reducing often complex ideas into punchy, dynamic visual narratives. Her work is characterised by its marriage of simplicity and complexity, driven by lines and patterns throughout. It’s little surprise that the Brooklyn-based illustrator has…
PosterLad is a graphic design project by Czech designer Vratislav Pecka. Through the project, Vratislav aims to reinvent the perception of posters. “A poster does not have to always promote a product or an event” says the designer. Instead, he uses the medium to express his design ideas and unique…
Time spent indoors inspired Sandrine Anne Sautejeau, a French-Chilean illustrator and graphic designer, to conceive her Mental Escapes series. The project depicts dream-like scenarios through windows, with scenes of far away places and distant lands. The first two designs of this unfolding series portray images of portals and hot-air balloons…
Leigh Bagley is a textile and pattern designer, celebrated for his prominent use of colour and geometric forms. His work redefines contemporary art and pattern for interiors and public buildings, directly taking influence from everyday surroundings and a love of modernist and abstract aesthetics. Alongside his own collection of prints,…
Manhattan-based artist, illustrator, and printmaker, Kate Segal’s, new series of works takes inspiration from nature, specifically the forms of mushrooms and jellyfish. Kate originally digitally painted the series using more muted tones. However, after experimenting with variations of saturation, curves and tones, she ended up bringing to life electric 3D…
Music can do a lot of things. According to Madonna, it makes the people come together; for Missy Elliot it makes you lose control; for Julie Andrews, it’s the very thing that makes the hills alive. ABBA? They’re just bloody grateful for it. And as Hot Chip’ synth botherer Joe…
La Perruque is a 1×90 centimetre-long typography magazine publishing non-standard type specimens printed on the margins of print shop papers which are often trimmed away from printed matter during the production process. Instead of throwing these bits in the waste bin, founding designer Olivier Bertrand turns them into the world’s…
Maria Atanackovic, also known as Maluda is an Irish/Serbian artist, textile and surface designer based in Dublin, Ireland. She currently works primarily through the medium of screen printing to produce bold, abstract prints. In her work, colour, shape and movement are used to express feelings and emotions. Maria is particularly…
Mothership Print Studio is run by Julian Mayerhofer, a freelance printer and illustrator based in Vienna, Austria. The studio specialises in Risography, screen printing, and mimeography (Gestetner). His work is characterised by the use of vibrant colours, texture, diversity and multiplicity. Julian studied graphic design in Vienna, where he developed…
It’s pretty safe to say that graphic design today wouldn’t be graphic design today without one neat, seemingly simple invention: The Swiss Grid. The term encompasses both the grid itself, and a broader aesthetic also known as the International Typographic Style. Whether or not you love it, loathe it, or…
Fedrigoni 365 is an annual book that asks 365 UK-based designers, illustrators and photographers to contribute a piece of work. For their most ambitious edition yet, they have gone digital, as an ode to community and togetherness. 2021’s coveted calendar project is unlike any previous, as digital printing has allowed…