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,…
Abigail and Phebe Cameron transform shared childhood memory into bold, layered screen print, sculpture and installation, asking how much of the inner child survives the journey into adulthood. You’re walking into a room full of toys and sweets, and suddenly, you realise you are not entirely comfortable… That is the…
There is something quietly contradictory about Appear Offline. A one-man creative studio that takes its name from a state of deliberate absence, yet produces work that is impossible to ignore. At the centre of everything is typography, not as a tool for communication in the conventional sense, but as raw…
Shifting Waterscapes is a multi-sensory exhibition at THG in Devon that brings together sound, storytelling, film and printmaking to explore the fragile ecologies of wetlands and waterways. Conceived by multidisciplinary artists Ellen Wiles and Arun Sood, the project immerses visitors in the landscapes of the nearby Otterhead Lakes nature reserve…
What begins as a scribble can sometimes grow into something much bigger. For Bub, it became an entire world. Created by Nitya Bellani, Be A Bub is a character-led project that sits somewhere between illustration, storytelling and personal mythology. It is playful, chaotic, self-aware and deeply human. At its core…
After a decade of growth, the French type foundry rebuilds from the ground up. After a decade of shaping contemporary type design, Blaze Type has launched a completely rebuilt version of its website. More than just a visual refresh, the new platform is a considered response to the realities of…
Tucked into the landscape of the Lake District, just outside Kendal, sits something extraordinary.James Cropper has been making paper here since 1845, on the same site, powered by the same surrounding environment, and driven by the same obsession with craft, colour, and innovation. And once a month, they open the…
Insights from People of Print member Maxim Print It’s often the finishing touches that make people stop, pick something up, and take a second look. A sharp edge, a precise cut, a surface that’s been etched, engraved, or sculpted into something unexpected. At Maxim Print, they’ve always believed that print…
For Greek/British artist and illustrator Ornella Xarikleia Akrivopoulou, creativity begins not with a finished idea but with curiosity and experimentation. Her project Collagraphy to Clay traces the intuitive process behind her work, showing how simple materials and playful exploration can evolve into unexpected forms. Based in Thessaloniki, Akrivopoulou approaches making…
Founded in 2024 by writer and editor JAKE MIKE BOY, GUTS Magazine is a new independent print publication exploring offal, food culture and the people who work in hospitality. The first issue brings together 33 contributors from around the world, creating a wide-ranging look at how interior organs appear in…
London-based artist Laura Mipsum uses collage to reclaim the visual language of fashion and commercial imagery, transforming female figures into powerful protagonists rather than passive subjects. Through surreal compositions that draw from film posters, religious iconography and dreamlike symbolism, her work places women firmly at the centre of the narrative.…
Designer Yaheng Li’s project Quarantine Tales explores how human emotions repeat across history. Presented as a newspaper-style graphic narrative, the work follows two fictional storytellers living through two different pandemics: Elissa during the 14th century Black Death and Panfilo during the Covid pandemic. Their voices run in parallel across the…
We are fascinated with furniture that doesn’t behave like furniture… That’s exactly why we’re excited to welcome Paper Lounge as a sponsor partner for Department Store & Co, supporting our growing programme of talks, workshops and events with their beautifully designed, sustainable seating. It folds, it flexes, and it appears…
German analogue photographer Jan Remschnigg has spent the past two years documenting a subject most people rarely notice: CCTV cameras. His ongoing photographic project, Observation, turns the lens back toward the devices that constantly watch us, framing them as curious, sometimes ironic protagonists within the urban landscape. “We often overlook…
Designer Yazmin Salgado approaches typography as something that can live beyond the page. In her ongoing self-initiated project Embodied Typography, language becomes material, spatial and reflective, turning a simple word into an object that exists within the physical world. The project began as an exploration of how design can operate…