Greek art studio 11 Modern Muses, founded by Alexandra Tiligadi in Patras, extends four years of planner design into an undated collection that blends psychology, poetry and structure for people who don’t use a planner every day but want somewhere meaningful to land when they do. Not everyone uses a…
Nigerian-born ceramic artist and founder of Terravia Ceramics, Umar Abdulrasheed reinterprets traditional African pottery through a contemporary sculptural language, working between Nigeria and the United Kingdom to create hand-built and wheel-thrown forms that carry cultural memory through material restraint. Clay in Nigeria is not a neutral material. It is connected…
Australian photographic artist and creative director Sarah Louise Kinsella takes gel plate printing, street poster scraps and spray paint to the track, creating five handcrafted livery designs for the Ferrari 296 Challenge race series across Australia. These Ferraris are not road cars. They exist solely to be pushed to their…
Berlin-based artist and spatial designer Sabine Kelka translates the visual language of electrical circuit diagrams into large-scale silkscreen prints on textile, turning engineering notation into something spatial, physical and quietly disorienting. Electrical circuit diagrams have their own rigorous visual grammar: standardised symbols, precise connections, a language designed for clarity and…
Book artist, designer and writer Ruchika Nambiar produces a limited edition of five artist books that make a therapy transcript fully available and entirely unreadable at the same time, using mirrors and a flag book structure to explore the gap between transparency and vulnerability. In 2018, Ruchika Nambiar recorded a…
Seattle print artist and art director Ren Riley launches Fable & Fame, an upcycled micro fashion brand that merges medieval manuscripts, tattoo culture and 90s grunge into garments that treat sustainability, locality and the people who wear them as part of the art. Ren Riley and Ryan Axxel met and…
For its tenth edition, the Independent Paper Show moves north for the first time, landing at Soho House Manchester on June 9 and 10, 2026, with the industry’s most important paper producers, suppliers and makers under one roof. Tickets are free. There is something fitting about the Independent Paper Show…
Chinese-American contemporary spiritual artist Fung Cheung paints dreams, visions and psychedelic experience onto found mirrors in a solo show at Nepenthes New York, making the invisible spiritual dimension directly visible in the physical world. Every mirror Fung Cheung paints on is a found one. The decision is deliberate: rather than…
Denver-based lowbrow pop surrealist Blood & Gold reverses the production process, creating digital designs first and working backwards into linocut block prints to make something no machine reproduction could replicate: evidence of human hands. Blood & Gold builds his designs on an iPad first. Then, instead of sending them to…
Manchester-born, internationally-formed designer Patricia Shea has spent a lifetime developing a colour-saturated, maximalist pattern practice that began with watercolour on paper in New York and now exists across fabric, wallcoverings and digital print on demand. Patricia Shea did not set out to develop a unique style. “Developing a unique style…
Designer and researcher Nathan Spainhour turns a decade of field photography across South Carolina barbecue restaurants into a collage-based book that treats hand-painted signs, improvised typography and roadside architecture as evidence of cultural memory, not aesthetic curiosity. South Carolina barbecue is not simply a regional food. “Careers are made by…
Finnish multidisciplinary artist and designer Superflinda has been building a limited-edition risograph alphabet since 2023, one letter at a time, each one hand-drawn from her background in hip-hop, sign painting and handlettering and transformed by the Riso process into something the design alone could never produce. The Riso Alphabet began…
LA-based graphic designer Shengjie Wu challenges the idea that golf is a sport for the wealthy with Birdie, a hypothetical branding and packaging project that makes the game feel genuinely approachable for a new generation of players. Spend a weekend morning at a public golf course and the crowd might…
Brooklyn-based artist PD Packard transforms flat printed kozo paper into three-dimensional pleated sculptures, combining printmaking, Japanese bookbinding and origami structure to create dynamic forms that expand the printed surface into space. A print, conventionally, stays flat. PD Packard’s work begins where that convention ends. Starting with original patterns designed and…
Mumbai-based illustrator Ayushi Saria redesigns a deck of Indian playing cards from 1922, reclaiming the format through a modern Indian lens that celebrates brown skin, architectural heritage and the royalty of contemporary India. In 1922, a deck of playing cards called the Dilkhus was printed in India. The artwork was…
Dutch artist Michel van Collenburg turns the ransom note, one of the most primitive forms of collage, into a series of paper-on-paper works that ask hard questions about love, expectation, and the patterns that bind us. It started with a breakup. Seven years of relationship ended, and Michel van Collenburg’s…
Chennai-based multidisciplinary graphic designer and art director Malavika Natesh builds a self-initiated zine from mixed media collage, typography and personal writing, creating a visual piece that carries meaning rather than just surface appeal. The title is an intimate address. Letter to the World borrows from Emily Dickinson, but Malavika Natesh’s…
Honduran artist and illustrator Hernan Ramos turned a side project for publishing drawings after work into a full career built on music festival posters, vibrant chaos and a daily ritual of picking up a random book and seeing what it wakes up. Gago Illustra began as somewhere to put the…
Printmaker, book artist and paper conservator Hannah Fray develops sculptural concertina books during her residency at the Regional Print Centre Wrexham, merging etching, screenprint, spray paint and drawing into hybrid cityscapes that debut at Bristol Artists’ Book Event in June 2026. The cities Hannah Fray builds in her books do…
UAL Animation graduate Erin Tilly sculpts small polymer clay creatures named Dream Weaver, Bat Prince, Precious, Dragonfly and Plepple, each one a strange, adorable reminder that life is play and magic is available to anyone willing to step into it. Observe the natural world long enough and the silliness becomes…