Jeremy Wat is a print and stamp maker based in Winnipeg, Canada. He carves his prints from his home where he lives with his wife and their two children. Jeremy’s wife is a creative designer and screen printer, and her business of screen printing onto apparel started up several years…
Whether you’re a pro graphic designer, or someone who’s just discovered obscure BBC4 documentaries about typefaces in the absence of Love Island, you can never have too many design books lying around. This selection of independent publishers produce books that help us understand the history and heritage of great design,…
Back in 2015, living in Vancouver, Kat Goetz of Blue Chisel studio felt stuck; tired of working dead end jobs and living in the city. Just as she started talking about selling her house, giving up her job, and going on a road trip to explore North America, a grey heron started…
Inky Dog Studio was founded in August 2018 by Jane Constable after she decided to become a full-time printmaker. Her work is predominantly created using the linocut relief printmaking technique, using traditional linoleum and high quality carving tools by Pfeil and Flexcut. Jane is largely inspired by her love for…
Pubs; they’re at the heart of our community and culture. The places we head into after work to dissect and forget our day. Where drinks are spilled, quizzes are lost and memories are made. However, faced by the current crisis, our pubs are at risk, and without support many will…
Trio is a Risograph printed book, consisting of 10 pages of the same three Riso colours; fluorescent pink, medium blue, and yellow, in various colour combinations. The publication was designed, printed, and hand-bound by Amsterdam-based graphic designer, Lol Gallimore, in a very limited edition of 5. Lol’s works typically explores vibrant…
Issue 57 of People of Print’s monthly publishing project, Posterzine, showcases the work of British artist and illustrator, Magda Archer. Inside the issue you can read an exclusive interview with the artist, and bag a limited edition A1 poster of her ‘Stay Fresh’ graphic. Magda’s work consists of vibrant paintings and…
You haven’t left the house in 63 days. The money you’d normally spend on posh coffees and 14% beers that taste of grapefruit has been spent on a slick new desk instead. Now you need some proper nice books to live on it. Luckily the world of independent publishing is…
Dani Molyneux, of graphic design and branding studio, Dotto, has designed a small token of appreciation for our key workers in the form of an enamel pin badge, produced by our sister company, PINBADG.ES. “A little doodle one evening at the beginning of this weird time turned into production of an…
For her latest series, linocut printmaker and animator, Rachael Abbott, took inspiration from the process of analogue photography. Since she began creating lino animations, Rachael has experimented with different forms of movement. The majority of her work has previously focused on travel, and moving an object across the screen, however…
The art scene in China has been growing rapidly over recent years, with the art of printmaking (dating back 1400 years to the Tang dynasty) as one of its leading forms of expression. Working within, and extending this ancient tradition, printmaking in China today clearly demonstrates its importance by its…
No Plan Press’ Takoma Park print series stemmed from the desire of the studio’s founder, Jesse Kirsch, to continue printing and designing during this crisis. The 3-part print series includes Roscoe the Rooster, Azalea City, and Takoma Park Together, all inspired by the city Jesse calls home. All proceeds from the sales…
Fresh Prints of Lancaster was started up by Gabrielle Shelley two years ago after she had created a few linoleum block prints during her time at Kutztown University, where she was partaking in a poster class. Never having time in her schedule to fit in an actual printmaking class, Gabby…
Linocut artist Shelly Brown graduated from Cambridge School of art with a degree in Illustration in 2009. Her studies provided Shelly with the time to experiment across a variety of different media, from collage to screen printing, and everything in between. “After graduating, I didn’t quite have a direction to…
During current events, we find ourselves working from home, trying to juggle many different things at once, which is showing us how it is possible to adapt to new ways of living. We talk with printmaker Megan Hopkin, who tells us all about how she has been using screen printing…
Hand Dryers, based on Samuel Ryde’s Instagram account, is the world’s most complete collection of hand dryers. Who knew that something so normal, so instantly forgettable, so remarkably unremarkable could be a thing of such beauty and intrigue? The book documents a stalwart of industrial design, an item so every…
Lockdown has changed modern urban life forever and forced us to re-evaluate the way we use our towns and cities. While the human tragedy of coronavirus must never be understated, those of us with an interest in urban environments will be understandably interested in how our cities respond to prolonged…
After travelling to Ljubljana (Slovenia) for the first time in 2018, Fabiolous, aka Fabio Marangoni, returned a year later with a group of collaborators in order to create an artwork dedicated to Saint George, the patron of the city. “The holiday was made almost by chance, not too far from home; good food, lots…
TypographHer, aka Nicole Arnett Phillips, is a letterpress printer with over 20 years experience in design. From her studio in New Zealand, Nicole also works across lino, woodcut, polymer, etchings, transfer, screenprint, riso and monoprint, creating artist books and ephemera about design, politics, and the environment. After studying an undergrad in Graphic…
Tactile Desires is the latest project by multidisciplinary design studio, Vasty. Born from the creative curiosity of it’s artistic director Mariano Pagella, an Argentinian graphic designer, this series explores the relationship between the real and the digital realms. First thought up some time ago, before the Covid-19 crisis and lockdown, Tactile Desires has…