Edinburgh-based multidisciplinary designer Heather Fletcher combines precise hand-drawn line work with mid-century pattern and colour to translate the character of the built environment into something expressive and evolving. Architecture is usually drawn to be accurate. Heather Fletcher draws it to be felt. Their mixed media illustrations of Edinburgh’s built environment…
Greek graphic designer and illustrator Yorgos Papadoyiannakis brings a childhood memory of the Cretan grape harvest to risograph, printing a geometric, fluorescent limited edition on paper made in part from grape residues. Every harvest, the crates stack up. One on top of another, forming temporary structures that grow as the…
Cyprus-based Common Grounds Studio creates a custom Greek-Latin display typeface for a twelve-country arts festival, pairing it with an automation script that generates controlled typographic variation at scale to embody the festival’s theme of Evolving Identities. When Roots&Routes, a festival bringing together emerging artists from twelve countries, needed a typographic…
London-based documentary photographer Donna Cyril turns a visit to Mumbai’s oldest fish market into a study of livelihood, dignity and the quiet pride found in honest work. The best documentary photography does not explain its subjects. It trusts them. More Than Fish, Donna Cyril’s series from the Sunday market at…
Romanian graphic designer Blanca Doba builds a conceptual body care brand from the ground up, using forest-derived materials, archival references and tactile packaging to reposition natural skincare as documented substance rather than decorative trend. The language of natural beauty branding has become so familiar it has almost stopped meaning anything.…
New Zealand graphic designer and illustrator Anna Taylor strips a live album cover back to its essence, letting photography, colour and a single touch of spot gloss do all the talking. There is a particular confidence in a cover that does not need to explain itself. The artwork Anna Taylor…
Multidisciplinary branding and design practice Altspace Design Studio brings architectural thinking and deliberate colour strategy to a real estate rebrand, building a visual identity anchored in trust and contemporary energy. The starting point for Zion Realty’s rebrand was a single conviction: the logo is the face of the brand, and…
Northern Israel-based printmaker Haviva Seligson carves and hand-prints a figure mid-breath in a wild landscape, making a linocut that treats the act of printing itself as inseparable from the meaning it carries. The shofar is one of the oldest ritual instruments in existence, its sound shaped entirely by the body…
Sydney-based collage artist and designer Yeara Chaham asks whether a feeling from music can become an artwork, building a mixed media composition from scanned pearls, magazine fragments and cool blue tones to translate the particular atmosphere of Sade into something you can see. The starting point was a question: can…
London-based illustrator and animator David Oku treats the constraints of 2D digital space not as a ceiling but as a starting point, building bold, densely detailed worlds from multicultural influences, hand-drafted letterforms and a refusal to release anything that doesn’t radiate positive energy. David Oku has a rule: if someone…
Paris-based creative trio Diana Castro, Maëva Grande and Laure Guillaud of Annexe Studio turned the visual language of the weekly supermarket leaflet against itself in a limited newsprint publication that is equal parts seduction and disruption. The supermarket leaflet is one of the most thoroughly ignored pieces of design in…
British-Canadian graphic designer and illustrator Aysha Lilani merges East African heritage with snowboarding culture in Kichizi, a bold board graphic selected by Gilson Snow for their 2026 lineup that takes its name from a Kenyan word for mindset over struggle. The word came from a tour guide in Kenya, on…
Deliberate/Deliberate, a joint exhibition at Graphic Studio Gallery in Dublin, brought together two printmakers whose practices share a commitment to process, restraint and the slow emergence of meaning through structure and deviation. It can be rather calming, observing work that asks you to look slowly. Deliberate/Deliberate, which ran at Graphic…
English-Italian editor, photographer and founder Elena Fazzino has built Garden Party Magazine from a private Instagram account into an independently published, community-led print publication that asks its readers to slow down and pay attention. The name came first. Garden Party was a private Instagram account Elena Fazzino started around 2017,…
New Orleans artist Victoria Vasilevskaya turns gig flyers into something far more considered, building a two-year archive of digital collage work that treats hardcore ephemera as art in its own right. There is a particular kind of flyer that anyone who has spent time in underground music scenes will recognise…
Not many studios would describe their methodology as publishing at the speed of trust. ACV do, and they mean it. Since 2020, the London-based slow-journalism practice and creative studio has been doing things at its own pace, working across print publishing, relational design and community projects to build what it…
Bristol illustrator Alice Ferns brings the full journey of fruit from field to factory to table in a gift box designed to be its own wrapping. The brief was deceptively simple and immediately compelling: create a gift box that does not need wrapping. For Alice Ferns, a Bristol-based illustrator, it…
Boston-based artist Ellen Shattuck Pierce combines relief cut, tinted cyanotype and embossing into a handprinted wallpaper that holds grief and renewal in the same frame, drawing on the cycles of winter to reckon with the hardest kind of year. Winter has a particular quality of honesty. The burnt umber remains…
Tallinn-based artist Helena Pass brings traditional Estonian folk timekeeping into a contemporary graphic context through a series of 17 stone lithographs, each editioned and mounted as a matchbox label. Some might consider it radical to name the months after the world you actually live in. Bread Month, Hay Month, Horse-Nodding…
London-based cartoonist and illustrator Abigail Rai brings her titanic green antagonist to life through an experimental screen print series rooted in South Asian mythology, the cycle of transformation and the insatiability of time. The Devourer is a giant green feminine force. She is the spirit of the wilderness, of transformation,…