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…
Texas-born and London-based interdisciplinary artist Paige Lee Miller, a Verified People of Print Member, confronts the overstimulated condition of contemporary life in her ongoing installation project, Archive of Rot. First presented as part of American Bacchanal (12–15 February, London), a group exhibition examining American identity through the lens of decadence…
This August, Bergen will host a rare opportunity to learn the traditional Japanese art of Mokuhanga in an intensive five-day course running from 10–14 August. Led by master carver Shoichi Kitamura and artist Miyuki Ninomiya, the course offers a hands-on introduction to centuries-old Japanese woodblock printing techniques. Open to all…
Welcome to the first instalment of our new City Series by People of Print, a collection of interviews exploring creative lives through the places that shape them. We begin in Koblenz and Gent with Lukas, Senior Graphic Designer at Canyon Bikes, whose work sits at the intersection of surface design,…
Somerset-based screen printer and Verified People of Print Member Hannah Carvell is stepping slightly outside her usual style with a new series of playful CMYK screen prints. Launching with Googly Eyes and soon expanding into a run of mini weather-inspired pieces, the series leans into clouds, sunshine and exaggerated eyes…
In a time shaped by rapid technological change and the growing presence of AI, Liz Payne’s practice returns insistently to the hand. Her work exists at the intersection of art, craft, design and technology, subverting traditional expectations of textile practice while embracing its labour and physicality. You Don’t Own Me…
Is there anybody out there? On February 17, premium cycling apparel brand MAAP and cult fashion label Perks and Mini returned with the fourth chapter of their ongoing collaboration. Titled Outer Terrestrial Space Travel, the new capsule pushes their shared language further into cosmic territory. Under astral light and guided…
There is something quietly powerful about a print that refuses to repeat itself. In Cascade (How will you know where to go?), Verified People of Print Member Aaron Pennington presents a series of two-plate aquatinted line etchings in a variable edition of twelve. Each print features the same architectural image:…
For Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Simone Ambu, known as Sambu Studio, Postcards From Nowhere did not begin as a formal project. It began as a way out. After a period of creative stagnation, Ambu found himself unable to move forward with new work. Even understanding the reasons behind the block did…
Microcore is a risograph-led project by Tanya Tang that takes a critical look at the rise of micro-trends within the fashion industry. Rooted in both personal experience and wider cultural observation, the project uses print and metaphor to question how quickly trends are created, consumed, and discarded, and what that…
The North Face has unveiled its latest collaboration with CDG by COMME des GARÇONS, presenting a Spring/Summer 2026 capsule that explores the territory between technical outdoor apparel and conceptual fashion. Rooted in the idea of freedom through exploration, the collection brings together The North Face’s performance-driven heritage with CDG’s stripped-back,…
Chaukor is a pixelated Devanagari typeface by Shivanshi Gupta, developed as part of a type design course at MIT Institute of Design Pune. Built entirely from four-sided rectilinear shapes, the name reflects both the visual construction and the conceptual intent behind the font: a simplified, bitmap-inspired system that combines playfulness…
Sergio Membrillas has gathered a year’s worth of concert posters into a single newspaper-format publication, creating what feels like both an archive and a snapshot of a specific moment in his practice. Produced under the name Office of Professional Illustration, the 24-page newspaper brings together posters designed for bands across…
Since 2020, Christopher Sperandio has produced more than 6,000 drawings, prints, and paintings under the name Pinko Joe. Combining text and image, his work operates as a sustained act of political resistance and social engagement. Through satire, slapstick, and the visual language of vintage comic books, Sperandio confronts contemporary power…
In early 2025, as restrictive US trade tariffs and renewed rhetoric about Canada becoming the “51st state” circulated south of the border, a wave of renewed national pride began to take shape across Canada. Illustrator, graphic designer, and printmaker Paul Dotey responded not with slogans, but with paper. Under his…
Signs structure how we move through the world. They direct, warn, instruct and inform. In semiotic terms, a sign is a site of representation, one thing standing in for another. Yet in the built environment, signs carry more than the words or symbols on their faces. For Nicholas H. Ruth,…
Dirty Laundry is a series of 53 intuitive illustrations by Shrivaani Poddar, a multidisciplinary graphic designer currently studying at the Glasgow School of Art. What began as a casual sketching exercise evolved into a quietly powerful body of work rooted in observation, repetition, and metaphor. The series started simply. During…