Dave Towers
Designer and artist Dave Towers boasts a pretty cool CV, taking in a placement at The Face back in its heyday, and working as inhouse graphic designer at lava lamp…
Designer and artist Dave Towers boasts a pretty cool CV, taking in a placement at The Face back in its heyday, and working as inhouse graphic designer at lava lamp…
Recent Yale graduate Orysia Zabeida has had an interesting journey: currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, she grew up on the island of Montreal in Canada, and was born in…
We’ve no doubt that everyone who’s been to art school will see more than a few familiar tropes in Walter Scott’s Wendy, the titular “lovable but messy post-college hipster” of…
Of all forms of visual art, collage makes perfect sense for director Jim Jarmusch. Known for his distinctive brand of darkly comic, staunchly genre-avoidant filmmaking; the works that stand out…
Ken Carbone is a designer, artist, musician, author and teacher. Along with Leslie Smolan, he formed independent branding agency CSA (Carbone Smolan Agency) in 1976 in New York City, working…
We’ve been following the career of Indian-born designer and art director Simoul Alva for a few years now, and her tenacity and talent never fails to impress us. Now based…
It goes without saying that a huge number of those who know their way around a printing press (or Photoshop) are also often pretty handy on decks, too (or indeed,…
Michel Rabagliati’s PAUL AT HOME has been described as “the perfect pandemic antidote – the opportunity to dive into someone’s anxiety and loneliness.” Pandemic or no, it’s an unputdownable read…
Barcelona-based Raquel Quevedo describes her practice as a “living, changing, ephemeral organism; an entity with an ambiguous existence that transits between the frontier of reality and fiction.” Her stunning, strange…
Generally speaking, we’d guess PoP readers to be design-nerd-types, into zines, counterculture, music etc etc—and so we’d wager that there aren’t many who haven’t heard of David Carson, the man…
It’s likely most of us have heard of Johnny Cash, Fidel Castro and Nick Cave, but Emile Griffith? Not so much. Perhaps that might change, however, thanks to German graphic…
Creating work that revolves around female characters, Manjit Thapp is something of an Instagram sensation. Having only graduated from her illustration course at Camberwell College of Arts in 2016, she’s…
Beloved by everyone from punks to grebos, indie filmmakers, grungers, viral meme dog-celebrities, Avril Lavigne and a large percentage of suburban teenagers, skateboarding has had a hugely significant impact on…
We’re big fans of the vibrant, psychedelic-leaning visual identity for this year’s Central Saint Martins Graduate Showcase, which is currently online showcasing work from across the London art school. Taking…
Two companies that we’ve got a hell of a lot of time for—type foundry Dinamo and Native Instruments, which makes audio production software and hardware—have come together, at last, creating…
While traditional in-person degree shows were still off-limits this year, the beauty of having them all online was that it opened everything up to all of us to have a…
D&AD rounded off last week’s New Blood Festival by announcing the winners of the 2021 New Blood awards. A total of 187 pencils were awarded to recent graduates and emerging…
While exotic beach holidays are unlikely to be on the horizon for a while yet, a lot of us are planning “staycations”, or at least a little bit of time…
Chau Luong’s work merges contemporary impulses and traditional influences to create work that’s striking, beautiful and refreshingly original. Focusing on cross-discipline collaboration, the Berlin-based artist applies her superbly crafted illustration…
Working under the name Mary Universe, Mary Ponomareva is a visual artist, multidisciplinary designer and researcher based in Amsterdam working across graphic design, visual art, research and hybrid media. She…