Newcastle-based freelance graphic designer Millie Carmel Jobson turns a sketchbook collage experiment with GF Smith Colorplan paper samples into a four-colour screen print made at Incubate Printmaking in the Ouseburn, letting imperfection and intuition do the heavy lifting. It started with paper samples. A set of GF Smith Colorplan swatches…
NTU Associate Professor and DEVIL Lab founder Lisa Winstanley brings together three designers from three continents in a 156-page limited edition publication that is part manifesto, part archive, part research, and designed to be torn apart and used. The dust jacket is neon orange and purple. The cover beneath it…
Colorado-based graphic designer, lettering artist and illustrator Katie Sturgis creates a hand-lettered piece after her design job is replaced by AI, arguing for the inherent value of human creativity and turning it into a product she never planned to make. Katie Sturgis’s graphic design job was replaced by AI. Her…
Shenzhen-based illustrator and designer Heather Zhou creates a vibrant digital illustration series of sea creatures with distinct personalities, building a fantastical underwater world full of odd charm and childlike wonder that draws from marine biology, fairytale and the people around her. There is a friendly and childlike octopus. A lobster…
Dublin-based graphic artist Eva Vitkute gathers a series of drawings of slightly distorted everyday objects into a limited edition risograph zine, using the logic of tattoo flash sheets and the information loss of reproduction as conceptual tools. The zine was not planned. Eva Vitkute draws objects, scans them to document…
German graffiti artist DADU Werkstatt and Manchester-based street photographer Milica merge real urban photography with illustrated geometric characters, turning static city scenes into living environments where structured reality meets playful, character-driven intervention. The collaboration began with an open call. Street photographer Milica posted on Instagram inviting artists to fuse their…
Port Harcourt-based documentary photographer Chukwudi Nwachukwu follows fishermen on the Andoni River waterways through repeated visits, capturing the quiet labour, physical effort and dignity of lives built on fragile wooden canoes and deep familiarity with the water. Each morning, a fisherman unties his canoe. He paddles out onto the Andoni…
South Korea-based designer Hwain Jie translates musical sampling into a typographic system, building each letter of the word SAMPLE on a 5×5 grid and running it through four cycles of iterative exchange until every character contains traces of the others. Sampling in music means taking something, changing it and passing…
Independent brand designer Izzy Poirier leads a large-scale editorial project between the Ottawa Design Club and New York Design Club, building a story-led publication with silver and clear inks, lenticular inserts and a typographic system that mirrors the project’s core idea: meaning that is not immediately visible but revealed through…
Minneapolis printmaker Amanda Huber launches a grassroots block printing initiative from a spare bedroom during the ICE occupation, block printing on reclaimed apparel and raising over $32,500 for mutual aid across Minneapolis communities affected by ICE. The first print was a reclaimed sweatshirt that already said “PLANTS” across it. Amanda…
Athens-based design studio Sputnik reimagines the printed brochure as a puzzle for a physical rehabilitation practice, cutting four typographic layouts in half, mixing the pieces and placing them inside each other so patients can experience the satisfaction of reassembly. The idea is precise in its logic. REHAB is a physical…
New York-based Thai graphic designer Supatida Sutiratana develops an experimental risograph poster series that transforms emotional entrapment, regret and affection into fragmented typographic compositions that sit between language and feeling. The word trap tends to carry a single meaning: something bad. Supatida Sutiratana is more interested in the ambivalence. “TRAP…
London-based artist Alfie Wright uses analogue photography to connect queer histories with queer futures, exploring cruising as sacred ritual and the subversive power of sexual deviance as an act of resistance. The public toilet as promised land. The park at midnight as sanctuary. Alfie Wright is interested in the spaces…
California-based South Asian visual artist Sneha Gindodiya paints a woman reaching toward a fading Persian and Kashmiri rug, building layered acrylic surfaces that dissolve as deliberately as the cultural memories they hold. Textiles are portable histories. Persian and Kashmiri rugs carry stories of labour, geometry and devotion across generations and…
Art director Sergey Zhigarev brings the printed matchday programme back to a Russian football club, pairing a strict typographic identity with a season-long series of illustrated posters that have grown from club publication into a recognisable visual language in their own right. The printed matchday programme has been quietly disappearing.…
Moscow-based illustrator Pashoot Ka creates a series of Procreate illustrations about Peter the Stone, a character who never moves while the world around him constantly changes, drawing from a found stone and a period of personal anxiety to build something quietly philosophical and quietly funny. In 2023, Pashoot Ka found…
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…
Brighton-based printmaker John Parkinson, known as Parky, brings colour and community spirit to a new junction in East Brighton, incorporating Edward Bawden-influenced angular forms and the graphic plant language of Angie Lewin into a spray-painted celebration of local life. Where Whitehawk and Kemptown meet, the road layout has changed. Through-traffic…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Croatian graphic designer and visual artist Ivan Križan develops a series of digitally printed art photographs that isolate details from natural forms, placing them on the boundary between abstraction and figuration and rethinking what abstraction actually means. The word abstract is commonly used in art to mean something unreal, something…