When PRINT was a printed magazine I wrote a brief column dubbed “Separated at Birth” (the title was ripped off from a regular feature in SPY magazine). My purpose was to make distinctions between influence… Read More »The Daily Heller: Return to Separated at Birth
The artist behind the Substack In The Filing Cabinet is on a mission to preserve her family’s table. From her mother’s homemade chutney to her late father’s lentil daar – one appetising artwork at a… Read More »How illustrator Azra Hirji turns the family table into an archive of food, migration and memory
Two years, five characters, and 42 pairs of creative hands were behind the London studio’s most ambitious project, and also its most honest. We sit down with Vicky Ghose, Mike Moloney and Stephen Middleton to… Read More »Art&Graft’s In Pursuit of Magic is a reminder of why we do this at all
From a custom typeface for a fictional field of “therolinguistics” to a book that 3D prints its own instructions, the Singapore-based designer explains how research and language shape his work. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s… Read More »Darius Ou on building type systems from sci-fi, linguistics and G-code
The artist on quitting the client-pleasing grind, sticking to a regular drawing habit, finding vitality in art-making, and building enormous, hand-cut paper flowers on the floor. “In an age when almost anything can be copied,… Read More »Why Ayong Son left agency life in Seoul to draw five things a day
A retrospective of iconic work by the English illustrator/designer George Hardie will be mounted during the London Design Festival, Sept. 12–20, at Wiedemann Lampe Gallery. Hardie is well-known for the memorably surreal album covers he… Read More »The Daily Heller: Five Decades of George Hardie’s Design in London