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…
In Williamsburg, New York, a new project is exploring what happens when chocolate and visual storytelling meet. The Chocolate Gallery transforms chocolate into an art-driven experience, where illustration, narrative and flavour come together as a single piece. Founded by Shahar and Anastasia, the project invites artists from around the world…
EYEYAH! has released Issue 09: Anger, an illustration-led publication that explores one of the most complex and often misunderstood human emotions through visual storytelling, science and interactive learning. Created for children, educators and curious adults, the issue approaches anger not as something to suppress, but as a signal that can…
Order/Disorder is the debut monograph of generative artist Tyler Hobbs, bringing his algorithm-driven practice into the physical world through a carefully crafted printed publication. Commissioned by Hobbs’ studio and developed in collaboration with Unit London and Hurtwood Books, the project documents the artist’s work from 2018 to 2023 while exploring…
Lisa Goebel, also known as The Naughty District, is a freelance communication designer and illustrator whose work blends analogue print processes with digital experimentation. Since launching her independent practice in 2022, her illustrations and printed works have been exhibited in cities including Berlin, London and Madrid. At the centre of…
Artist Chong Kar Lai’s project The Heirs Who Shouldn’t Exist begins with a contradiction. Raised in a pork butcher family in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country where selling pork has become increasingly difficult, Kar Lai grew up within a trade that was slowly disappearing. What was once a generational livelihood shaped…
London-based photographer Elle Godfree continues her long-term exploration of British youth subcultures with SCRAP 2026, an ongoing photographic project examining the contemporary skinhead scene and its evolving identity within working-class culture. Working entirely with analogue photography, Godfree documents communities connected to the skinhead movement across locations such as Camden and…
When The Virgil Reader Vol. 001 was first announced, it would have been easy to assume it was another tribute publication. A large-format book, a limited run, global pre-orders. The sort of release that often follows the passing of a cultural figure. But the first printed publication from the Virgil…
Welcome back to our City Series, a collection of conversations exploring creative lives through the places that shape them. For our second instalment, we travel across the Atlantic to Amesbury, Massachusetts, a historic New England mill town where brick factories, independent record stores and artist studios sit side by side.…
With Youm Wara Youm, multidisciplinary artist Yomna Mohamed transforms a familiar household object into a vivid exploration of Egyptian visual culture. Produced in collaboration with Makan Press, the 2026 calendar exists somewhere between functional tool and artist book, printed in five Risograph colours in a limited edition of 100. The…
For many years, Alberto Herrero’s creative identity revolved around letters. Starting with graffiti at the age of thirteen and later working for almost a decade in advertising, lettering became both a visual language and a professional path. It felt familiar and natural, a continuation of the marks he had been…