From premium lay-flat albums and fine art portfolios to fast, app-driven keepsakes, these are the ten photo book companies worth knowing if you live in the UK. Whether you’re a working photographer looking for gallery-grade output, a designer assembling a portfolio, or someone who simply wants family memories off a…
There is a moment every artist knows… The work is finished, photographed against a white wall or laid flat on a studio floor, uploaded to a shop or a portfolio, and then silence. The piece is good, you know it is good. And yet it sits there. The frustration is…
Texas-based founder and editor Chris Brown has spent decades building Refueled into an independent magazine, creative agency and think tank, drawing from the cultural energy of the 1960s to create a publication built on community, heritage, authenticity and a lifelong belief in the power of the printed page. Chris Brown…
Designer and typographer Kritika Dhariwal draws her fellow commuters on New York City’s A train as letterforms, building a typographic portrait series that uses shape, proportion, weight and gesture to capture the personalities and stories of everyday subway life. Kritika Dhariwal had a vision on the A train: what if…
New York-based director, designer and illustrator Daniel Savage publishes Something Savage with Vetro Editions, a book of pen-plotted geometric animations built from bleeding marker lines and layered colour, with each page paired with augmented reality content. Daniel Savage’s background is in percussion and graphic design, and that combination shows. The…
Posterheroes 15 asks what’s still human about us in the age of AI. The catch: it won’t accept posters made by AI. Entries close 31 July. There’s a rule buried in the Posterheroes 15 terms worth knowing before you start. Fully AI-generated posters are not accepted. A contest about artificial…
Minneapolis-based interdisciplinary artist Essence Enwere designs a variable typeface rooted in the textures of Mississippi’s Black Delta, combining it with an artist book, archival research, original writing and a physical installation to explore African American ecomusicology and the use of type as cultural preservation. Essence Enwere began with a question…
Bespoke furniture studio Cappa e Spada combines ink transfer printing, layered paint and period distressing techniques to hand-build functional art pieces, with the Queen of Bohemia coffee table taking three to four weeks to bring to life from a 1613 oil painting portrait. Tony is peeling paper from a wooden…
When art, design and cycling come together, the results can be far more than performance apparel. They can become a celebration of identity, community and storytelling. That is exactly the spirit behind the latest collaboration between Rapha and Yinka Ilori, who has created a limited-edition collection for the Rapha Cycling…
Chicago-based photographer Kira Crugnale founded UNCLE in 2024, an independent publisher dedicated to photography in print, launching with FORTUNE, a text-free annual featuring fifteen photographers from around the world and a sequencing-led format designed for sustained looking. The name is a joke and a protest. “UNCLE is a tongue-in-cheek reference…
Transdisciplinary designer and professor Catherine d’Amours harvests clay from specific territories, 3D-prints it into ephemeral typographic installations, then returns it to the earth, working directly against a modernist tradition that cut language from the conditions of its making. The earliest known form of writing is a mark pressed into clay.…
London-based street photographer Mark Luke Grant brings together a year of 35mm colour film photography in a first edition of one hundred hardback copies, capturing the small details, odd moments and quiet humour of East London life that reveal themselves only if you slow down. Extra Ordinary did not come…
Lagos-based documentary filmmaker Kehinde Temitope Odutayo shoots an eight-minute observational film across three days in Dakar and Gorée Island, finding in the periphery of a gathering of Africa’s most significant artistic voices the real film that no programme could have planned. The logic of event coverage is familiar: find the…
Lisbon-based design studio Frau im Mond launches Alien Magazine, a publication built for people who feel other, with design decisions that enact the very dichotomies they describe: rough where you expect smooth, unreadable where you expect legible, strange where you expect welcome. Alien Magazine began as a question: what would…
Cheltenham-based illustrator Kai Dylan responds to the feeling of deep connection with nature with two risograph prints drawn from his own memories, printed in a carefully developed four-colour palette of aqua, red, yellow and purple that carries the warmth and nostalgia he was reaching for. Eutierria is a word for…
Leith-based photographers Ghost Bros Photo Co work primarily in 35mm double exposure, building crowded, layered images drawn from protest scenes and the streets of Edinburgh that find something unexpectedly beautiful in the density of it all. Double exposure is a technique built on collision: two separate moments brought together onto…
Climate-controlled, calibrated to the millimetre, and now Hahnemühle Gold certified, Greyscales is the kind of studio that exists for photographers who care about every variable between the file and the wall. We spoke to founder Craig about the long route from press photography to one of the country’s most rigorously…
Independent publisher Vetro Editions releases Pixel Rugs, the first full monograph by Rhode Island-based artist Travess Smalley, printed in fluorescent Quadrifluox inks that glow under UV light, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier situating the work within generative art history. Travess Smalley’s studio is, by his own description,…
Slovak-Canadian artist and designer Nicole Beno creates a poster series that places her father’s old analog automotive drawings in tension with the decorative excess of Slovak folklore embroidery, exploring immigrant liminality, cultural hybridity and the space between institutional order and artistic release. Nicole Beno’s father brought automotive drawings from Communist…
Nairobi-based photographer and visual artist Michelle Gatheca creates a series of styled portraits centred on sculptural headpieces handcrafted by jewellery artist House of Mutha, reframing adornment as storytelling, personal authority and a form of visual language. What we place on the head carries weight. Michelle Gatheca’s ADORNED is built on…