Returning to OFFF Festival always feels a bit like stepping into a parallel version of the creative industry, where everyone is slightly more open, a bit more curious, and a lot more willing to show their work. Held at the Disseny Hub Barcelona, this year’s edition ran across three packed…
Illustrator, artist and activist Ayala Meidan brings two years of living through ongoing violence in Israel-Palestine into a studio practice developed at Can Serrat residency in Catalonia, combining collected text and image to find language for experiences that resist it. Some experiences do not resolve into words. Ayala Meidan arrived…
Venezuelan-born designer Germán Castellanos rebuilds a Dominican street kiosk from scratch to create a participatory installation that celebrates working-class culture, sonic density and the intelligence embedded in everyday life. Distance has a way of clarifying what proximity makes invisible. Germán Castellanos developed La Paletera as his undergraduate thesis at Parsons…
London and Bristol-based nail and tooth gem artist Amerys founded Glamerys in 2024, bringing a Fashion History education and a deep awareness of cultural origins to a practice she positions within a new wave of contemporary beauty and design. Tooth gems and nail art are having a moment, but Amerys…
Pittsburgh-based artist Matt Gold brings vintage Polaroids from the 1970s and 80s into a new life through digital art, stepping inside the lives of strangers and asking what we see when we look at someone else’s history. There is a particular intimacy to a Polaroid. The format was designed for…
French graphic designer Madison Rengnez, based in São Paulo, commits to a drawing every day in 2026, using a random word generator to banish creative block and graphite pencil to rediscover what had quietly disappeared from his life. It happens gradually, and then it is just gone. For Madison Rengnez,…
Working from her studio in the Berkshires, printmaker Adriana Alexatos transforms donated and discarded fabrics through botanical dye, eco-printing and block printing, treating the land as collaborator and textile waste as material rather than problem. The starting point for every piece Adriana Alexatos makes is something someone else was done…
Self-taught artist Pacolli has spent two decades hand-printing one-of-a-kind apparel from her apartment, first in São Paulo and for the past sixteen years in San Francisco, letting her work take her from indie art shows to a Super Bowl football. Twenty years of printing in apartments. Not studios, not workshops:…
Chilean artist Catatte Tapia translates cult cinema frame by frame into coloured ballpoint pen, turning the speed of film into something that demands hours of meticulous, layered work and invites the viewer to get close. Cinema moves at 24 frames per second. Catatte Tapia works at a rather different pace.…
Polish-Swedish artist and printmaker Jolanta Johnsson builds kaleidoscopic collage and monotype compositions from figures in crowds, pairs and solitude, exploring the diversity, fragility and persistent beauty of human community. Zygmunt Bauman, the Polish sociologist, described the current moment as a crisis of democracy, a collapse of trust. His words sit…
Central Saint Martins graphic design student Guan Wang translates a quiet winter in Antibes into a series of duotone Risograph prints that use limited colour and grain to preserve a moment of stillness that might otherwise pass unnoticed. January in Antibes. The sea wind cold, the landscapes empty, the rhythm…
Art director and brand designer Kasia Konopka turns the language of consumer packaging against itself, building a modular typographic system that asks what it means when growth starts to look like branding. Something is unsettling about how naturally the language of self-improvement borrows from the language of product marketing… Stronger,…
Philadelphia painter, illustrator and public artist Haley Simone Potter distils the joy and energy of live musical performance into vibrant digital prints and acrylic paintings, built from years of sketching friends at band practice. It started at band practice. Haley Simone Potter spent years sketching friends playing music, watching how…
Italian printmaker Elisa Bertocchi has built a practice around imaginary landscapes where women, animals and botanical life exist in quiet harmony, all hand-printed from linocut one layer at a time. Some introductions to a medium are gradual. Elisa Bertocchi’s was not. “I’ve always loved drawing, but when I discovered linocutting,…
New York City creative studio Casalino Design produces a limited-edition photography book that marries the visual language of a Michelin-starred menu with a high fashion lookbook, launched at the St. Regis and the Diane von Furstenberg Gallery in the same week. When photographer Melanie Dunea set out to house her…
Manchester-based interdisciplinary artist Chloe Watts has spent nearly a decade building a self-devised creative practice in the absence of the lawful aftercare she was entitled to following three years of psychiatric hospitalisation. This is what that practice looks like. On 23 February 2017, Chloe Watts was discharged from hospital after…
Vietnamese boutique creative practice Fins Studio translates a poet’s emotional journey into a physical form through exposed Coptic binding, handwritten poems and illustrations drawn from real photographs, creating an intimate keepsake that is as much presence as publication. The demoiselle crane is a quiet bird. A migratory species associated with…
Hong Kong-born, London-based illustrator and artist Lily Kong builds a world of fragmented landscapes across mono-printing, lino, riso and drawing, bringing them together in a handbound artist book made during residency at London Centre for Book Arts. The starting point was a need to slow down. Since 2023, Lily Kong…
Swedish textile artist Ida Pettersson Preutz hand-prints fabric in her studio to chase a very specific feeling: the dizzying, zen-like state of an optical illusion taking hold. There is a moment when a pattern stops being something you look at and becomes something that looks back. Ida Pettersson Preutz has…
Albuquerque-based visual artist Karl Orozco disassembles broken inkjet printers, coats their components in CMYK ink and stamps them onto large-format paper to create vibrant relief prints that are part forensic investigation, part monument to planned obsolescence. It started with an Epson inkjet printer sitting next to a dumpster at work…