On 6 June 2026, Derby came together to celebrate a remarkable milestone. As part of the city’s ongoing 50:50 Twinning celebrations, People of Print and Department Store & Co invited creatives, designers, illustrators and local residents to explore a simple but powerful question: What does connection mean to you? The…
Pennsylvania-based mixed media artist and designer Christina Galbiati cuts, tears and overlaps individual Helvetica letters into dense xerographic collages on board, building compositions from mundane expressions like “Blah,” “Ugh” and “Hmm” to explore sensory overload, capitalism and the irreplaceable value of the human hand. Christina Galbiati could do this digitally.…
Florida letterpress and specialty print shop M.C. Pressure launches a custom hat with a pencil sleeve sewn into the side, sourced locally in St. Augustine and available in two colourways, because the best ideas need something to write them on. The idea behind the M.C. Pressure Thinking Cap is straightforward…
Brighton-based artist Beth Gibbons takes a single work and asks how many forms it can inhabit simultaneously, existing as a silkscreen print, a 3D-printed object, a projection and a photographic print, challenging the fixed hierarchies that confine art to one context or one value. The text arrived in her sleep:…
Indonesian visual designer and illustrator Aurelia Karina develops a personal series of digital illustrations built on disproportionate human forms and bold contrasting colour, inspired by plus-size yoga culture and a desire to express what words cannot always reach. In 2018, Aurelia Karina’s mother started sharing videos of plus-size women doing…
Art, Print & Publishing at Mega Press / SVA RisoLAB For over two decades, Panayiotis Terzis has been making work at the intersection of drawing, painting, printmaking and publishing from the heart of New York City. Born in Greece and rooted in Brooklyn since art school, he runs Mega Press…
Sydney-based artist and designer Jaz Lynch hand-builds one-off sculptural lamps from paper pulp without moulds or templates, integrating electrical cords into the form and finishing each piece with a surface treatment drawn from printmaking to create objects that sit between functional design and art. Each lamp in Jaz Lynch’s Electric…
Istanbul-based graphic designer and illustrator Eda Çağıl Çağlarırmak brings the Adidas Runners community into one of Istanbul’s most iconic spaces, painting a 4.5 by 3.1 metre mural that captures the layered spirit of the Grand Bazaar and the sense of togetherness that running creates. The Grand Bazaar has been in…
Stockholm-based artist and graphic designer Andy Voitka turns creative paralysis into a 69-page self-published book, using the stuckness itself as starting material and arriving at a maximally tactile printed object with covers made from recycled LED panel plastic. Andy Voitka was stuck. His graduation project at Beckmans College of Design…
New campaign by KesselsKramer uses handwritten local tips to guide Amsterdam’s visitors across the city toward the Stedelijk. Amsterdam has a high concentration of museums and cultural attractions. International tourists and Dutch day-trippers visiting the city have plenty of choice, but limited time and increasingly tighter budgets. So how do…
Cairo-based visual and graphic designer Ahmed Elnafad documents graffiti, street markings, layered posters and erased messages across Egypt in a 358-page hand-bound photobook, treating city walls as unstable public archives constantly written on, erased and rewritten. Ahmed Elnafad was sixteen when he painted a wall with friends and got chased…
Louisville-based printmaker Emily Ciecka creates her largest and most complex reduction print to date, a five-layer piece featuring a Killdeer protecting her chicks in a field of poppies, inspired by a friend’s story of watching over a nesting bird during a difficult time. A friend sent Emily Ciecka a photograph…
New York-based Indian designer Seher Anand creates a research-led printed book that examines migration through architecture, passports, border systems, national symbols and carried objects, treating every design decision as part of the narrative it is building. The frustration that generated Migrant Landscape was specific: migration is too often framed as…
Quebec printmaker Sonia Landry, working as La Hache, creates a limited edition print inspired by wave patterns on the sand of the Côte-Nord coast, layering sheet music beneath fluid curves printed in a gradient from phthalo blue to fluorescent lime green. It was a walk along a beach on Quebec’s…
Factory Originals publishes a limited edition numbered memoir from former Motörhead PA Dan Hawcroft, pairing raw rock ‘n’ roll storytelling with print design by ZIP Design, a handmade slipcase by W MacCarthy and Sons, GF Smith Colorplan endpapers, commissioned illustrations and over five hours of companion podcast. Dan Hawcroft spent…
Athens-based art director and painter Christie Photopoulou creates handmade greeting cards for the Maria Callas Museum gift shop, drawing the colours, atmosphere and feeling of the museum’s three opera rooms directly into one-of-a-kind acrylic mini paintings. Christie Photopoulou was given access to the Maria Callas Museum in Athens after hours,…
Transmedia artist, researcher and Assistant Professor Feixue Mei reimagines the myth of Mulan as a visual inquiry into the lives of women from China’s post-one-child-policy generation, exploring the double-bind between professional achievement and domestic tradition through hybrid physical and digital storytelling. The myth of Mulan has always been about performance:…
London and India-based visual artist Kirti Virmani creates a mixed media installation of photography, photo-polymer etchings on steel, ceramic sculpture and pigment prints that questions who built the walls designed to enclose women, and whose gaze they were built to control. The Parkota is a boundary wall, the kind that…
London-based printmaker Oceana Masterman-Smith transforms paper into tactile sculpture through blind embossing, hand-carving designs into lino and pressing them into relief to create prints that shift and change as light moves across their surface. Most prints are read through ink. Oceana Masterman-Smith’s prints are read through light. Blind embossing is…
Manchester-based conceptual illustrator and lifelong pacemaker patient Ollie Hirst creates a series of hand-drawn editorial illustrations for BBC Science Focus on the times AI has failed spectacularly, using cyberpunk neons against greyscale to put human emotion at the heart of a story about machine trust. The brief was precise and…