Insights from People of Print member Maxim Print In advertising, great ideas rarely stay neatly inside a screen. Campaigns spill out into the physical world, onto packaging, posters, installations, influencer boxes, experiential activations, and the many printed objects that bring creative ideas to life. For agencies, choosing the right print…

For designers, printmakers and packaging specialists, paper is never just a surface. It determines how ink behaves, how colour holds, how a box feels in the hand and how a brand is remembered. Few manufacturers understand this relationship between material and meaning as deeply as James Cropper. Founded in 1845…

At the height of a crowded international book fair, where hundreds of publishers compete for attention and tables overflow with printed matter, WIRWIR PUBLISHES chose a different approach. Instead of simply displaying books, they invited participation. Armed with a manual typewriter, they asked visitors a deceptively simple question: what is…

Time moves in repetition, but no two days ever feel the same. In a Tempo., interdisciplinary artist Chaerin Do explores her notion of Time through layered print, music, and material process. The work began with seven 6 x 6 inch plexiglass acrylic sheets, each laser-engraved to represent a day of…

Unfold is a long-term photographic project by Xinyue Tao that treats the darkroom not as a space of reproduction, but as a site of material intervention, memory, and transformation. Combining traditional black-and-white enlarging with photogram processes, the work foregrounds hands-on image-making and positions photography as something mutable rather than fixed.…

At the Hong Kong Illustration and Creative Show 10, held on 20–21 December 2025, Wen Ching Yiu, also known as Krystine, presented a playful expansion of printmaking beyond the page. Her project explored how Risograph prints can move into the realm of wearable objects, transforming small printed works into one-of-a-kind…

Working for yourself today means carrying a lot. You are doing the creative work and the admin, marketing, socials, accounts, emails and contracts. You are navigating relentless news cycles, rising costs, family responsibilities, kids, and surprise bills that land out of nowhere. It can feel like your brain never fully…

There is something special about leaving a gig with more than just ringing ears and a setlist memory. For Brighton-based illustrator and musician Amy Charlton, that something is a hand-folded zine. Murphy’s Medicine MediZine is a self-made publication created for her band, Murphy’s Medicine. Each issue is hand-drawn and hand-painted…

There is something quietly radical about a handkerchief.  Illustrator Kimberly Ellen Hall has been designing colourful cotton hankies that do more than take care of your nose. They bring a pop of colour to your pocket, reduce disposable waste, and inject a little humour into the colder months. At a…

Some experiences are almost impossible to explain. You can describe them, define them, even diagnose them, but that does not mean someone else will understand what they actually feel like. For UK-based illustrator and printmaker Kate Rolfe, dyslexia was one of those experiences. Wiggling Words, published by Two Hoots /…

With VAINCU, NON DOMPTÉ (“Defeated, Not Tamed”), EDIE. transforms typography into something lived, worn, and felt. Screen printed onto textile and first presented in June 2024 at Noir Brillant in Rennes, France, the work formed part of LES CHIENS QUI ABOIENT (“The Dogs That Bark”), an exhibition where language, fabric,…

There is something about stepping away from the noise and returning to the press that recalibrates everything. In April 2025, Jarred Elrod spent three days printing letterpress at Tipoteca Italiana in Cornuda, Italy. Surrounded by one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of wood and metal type, he produced a…

For more than a century, the matchday programme has been part of football’s ritual. Bought before kick-off, read in the stands, and taken home as proof you were there. For many supporters, it sits alongside scarves and ticket stubs as a physical reminder of the day. But as digital media…

In London’s Royal Docks, a colossal burst of colour now stretches across the urban landscape. Blue Sunset, the latest permanent public artwork by Graphic Rewilding, was unveiled in June 2025 and stands as a vibrant tribute to community, migration and transformation in East London. Large in scale and rich in…

Protein Studios has announced a limited-time co-working offer at its Shoreditch home, giving new members one month free when they sign up for six months. A small number of desks have just opened up in the upstairs studios, inviting freelancers, founders and creative teams to become part of the P.S.…

The team behind the largest letterpress printing press of its kind in the world has published a new book titled TOGETHER, bringing together works created in collaboration with communities across Yorkshire and beyond. At the heart of the project is the Guinness World Record-holding People Powered Press. Built by JKN…

Community Findings from People of Print We recently asked our audience a simple question: What’s the biggest lie the creative industry still tells young designers? The responses were varied. Some were humorous. Others were blunt. A few were deeply reflective.Taken together, they do not point to one single lie. Instead,…

What happens to a poster after the exhibition ends? For London-based designer and Verified People of Print Member Yuliya Ratnikova, that question became the starting point for something far bigger than a wall display. Bear with Me is a poster print installation created by Yuliya Ratnikova and Anna Ganna, using…

Printmaking is often associated with paper, glass, or framed works on a wall. Shani McLane’s collaboration with NEKI shifts that expectation. In Prints to NEKI, traditional print processes are translated into contemporary function-wear, positioning print not as decoration, but as a core design language embedded into how garments look, feel,…

Sunny Wu’s illustrations exist in a universe of bright colour, grainy texture, and unapologetic femininity. Titled sunny’s world, this ongoing body of work depicts girlhood not as something fragile or ornamental, but as something self-aware, grounded, and quietly powerful. Working primarily in digital media while drawing on the visual language…