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…
Krakow-based graphic designer and creative technologist Mikołaj Pyka uses custom p5.js code to slice photographs into rhythmic, layered fragments, dissolving the familiar into something the eye has to feel rather than read. The brain is fast. Show it a photograph and it categorises before it truly sees: tree, face, street.…
Greek illustrator Nasia Stylidou, aka Decomposition, brings a six-year-old vision to life as an 85-piece holographic screenprint, placing a spiked-armored woman knight at the centre of a collapsing nebula through a collaboration that merges conceptual image-making with meticulous craft. The image of a knight riding into battle is almost always…
Beijing-born, New York-based artist Yuchen Lu designs a contemporary interpretation of the Tibetan tiger rug, produced by hand in Gyantse County, Tibet, reinterpreting one of the region’s oldest motifs through a fluid composition that honours tradition while carrying the emotional complexity of the present. The tiger has been present in…
At OFFF Festival 2026 in Barcelona, the conversation around creativity felt charged this year. Among the standout voices was Nils Leonard, co-founder of Uncommon Creative Studio, whose talk cut through the noise with a mix of honesty, intensity, and conviction. Uncommon has built a reputation as one of the most…
London-based graphic designer and illustrator Višnja Ostojić has been building an ongoing illustrated portrait of the city since 2019, drawing pubs, streets and statues in vibrant, detailed iPad illustration that captures London as she has come to know it. When Višnja Ostojić moved from the Netherlands to London in 2019,…
Berlin publisher TOC marks its tenth edition with a letterpress Tenth of December that pairs Zuzana Licko’s Filosophia with a deliberately chaotic set of chapter heading typefaces, combining optical illusion bookmaking with a typography that honours, then gleefully disrupts, Saunders’ own narrative spirit. Tenth of December is the tenth edition…
Multidisciplinary visual artist Omisha Gandhi builds a cartoon world around a girl stuck inside her own mind, using the perceived lightness of the form to hold complex questions about perception, identity and lived experience. Cartoons make people lower their guard. That is, for Omisha Gandhi, precisely the point. “Cartoons are…
For their 2026 festival campaign, OFFF Barcelona partnered with London and New York creative studio Uncommon to develop Cultured, a living design identity literally grown from the biological traces of the creative community it represents. The premise is quietly audacious. Uncommon invited members of the creative community into their London…
Photographer Nicola Davison Reed turns studio downtime into a 13-year archive of black and white conceptual work, using light, shadow and form to document internal structure made visible. Between clients, when the studio goes quiet, Nicola Davison Reed turns inward. The phrase she uses for it, a photographic rocket ride…
Belgrade-based illustrator and visual storyteller Kristina Jovanovic, aka kiikii.jova, transforms a wine label into a small emotional narrative about love, pressure and the resilience of a heart that keeps opening itself regardless. A wine label is among the most constrained canvases an illustrator can work with: small, functional, expected to…
Brighton-based freelance graphic designer Dan Smith creates bold, skate-led apparel graphics for one of London’s oldest and most storied skate shops, drawing on half a century of heritage and the resilience embedded in the culture itself. Slick Willies has been a cornerstone of the London skate scene since the 1970s.…
After a decade of commercial illustration, UK-based visual artist Claudine O’Sullivan found her way back to paint through running, building an abstract, process-led studio practice that captures energy rather than form. Claudine O’Sullivan started running just under two years ago. It had nothing to do with her work. Then, gradually,…
Somewhere between Zürich’s cultural pulse and a quiet Alpine valley, Dafi Kühne has spent sixteen years building one of the most formidable letterpress studios in Europe. Working under the name Baby Ink Twice from a 450-square-metre factory floor in Näfels, he designs and prints large-format posters using six functional presses,…
Few studios operate with the clarity and consistency of Stockholm Design Lab. Founded in 1998, the Stockholm-based practice has built a reputation as one of Europe’s most respected design studios, shaping brands through work that spans identity systems, packaging, typography, environments, and print. At the centre of it all is…
After a tumultuous move forced by rising rents, Salt Lake City’s Riso Geist marks its new beginning with a collaboratively made risograph calendar that lets the medium’s particular strengths do exactly what they are meant to do. Riso Geist has been Salt Lake City’s flagship risograph studio since 2017, but…