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…
Austin-based artist Veronica Ceci continues to push the scale of relief printmaking with Weaving Logic, a new site-specific work currently on view at Icosa Gallery in Austin as part of the exhibition Perception Technique with Erin Cunningham. Measuring around 7 x 10.5 feet, the piece is built from six interlocking…
Italian illustrator Claudia Manola, known professionally as artoodolss, explores the growing influence of artificial intelligence in education through a bold editorial illustration that asks a simple but important question: is AI helping students learn, or quietly reshaping the way they think? Created as part of an illustration course focused on…
Copenhagen-based artist Jeppe Knudsen Ringsted merges science, design and cartography in Mappa Animalia, a visual project that reimagines the evolutionary relationships of animals as detailed map-like landscapes. Instead of political borders or geographical territories, Ringsted’s maps are structured around phylogenetic trees, translating the scientific classification of species into navigable visual…
PrintFC is a personal project by UK-based designer Harry Dowlen that celebrates the tactile history of football print culture. Built from vintage magazines, annuals and matchday programmes sourced from charity shops, the work transforms printed ephemera into one-off collages that honour the physical character of pre-digital printing. At the centre…
For artist Murphy Stamp, making work often begins with confronting the things that are hardest to describe. Their piece There Are Monsters Nearby explores childhood trauma through a language that many people recognise from early life: the invention of monsters. When frightening experiences are difficult to process, children often give…
Romanian illustrator Andra Badea recently collaborated with Teach for Romania, part of the global Teach For All network, to help schoolchildren understand social-emotional skills through character design. The project forms part of a nationwide educational program that supports teachers in introducing topics such as self-awareness, emotional regulation and decision-making in…
Paris-based illustrator and designer Rafaelle Fillastre was among the artists selected for Protect the Protest, a public art initiative organised by Shado Mag responding to increasing restrictions on the right to protest across Europe. Five artists were chosen to create works addressing the theme, with the selected pieces later installed…
Illustrator Hoan Phan welcomes the Lunar New Year with Year of the Fire Horse, a vibrant illustration that celebrates the energy, symbolism and traditions of Tết in Vietnam. Created using dip pen and marker for the line work before being coloured digitally, the piece combines traditional inking techniques with contemporary…
Canadian artist Matthew Gagnon creates bold landscape images that feel as if they have stepped out of a print workshop, yet every piece is made entirely by hand. Using acrylic paint and technical drawing pens, his work explores how the visual language of graphic design and printmaking can exist within…
Armenian designer and illustrator Nvard Yerkanian explores the legacy of Armenia’s modernist architecture in Fragile Concrete, a picture book built from a series of 30 detailed illustrations that document some of the country’s most distinctive architectural landmarks. The project began long before the book itself. Yerkanian created the first illustration…
For the fourth edition of Cairo Art Book Fair, the organisers and Cairo-based creative agency NTSAL introduced a playful new approach to visual identity. Instead of producing a single fixed poster, they sent out poster kits to artists across the city, inviting them to reinterpret the materials and return their…