It has been thiry years since Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven co-founded the Amsterdam-based design studio thonik. This many years is in itself a testament to their success as collaborators in using visual communications to… Read More »The Daily Heller: Thirty Years of Thonik’s Collaborative Tonic
The Gloucestershire textile artist gives a ketchup sachet or a tin of pilchards hours of free-motion embroidery, turning the packaging we’ve almost forgotten about into “little care labels”, as she puts it, “for the soul”.… Read More »Emma Giacalone turns retro food packaging into stitched reminders to be kinder to ourselves
After moving from Taiwan to London at the age of 18, the photographer spent his formative years navigating two different environments while questioning his relationship to masculinity, home, and family. “My journey so far has… Read More »Adam Lin’s intimate series documents male family members in Taiwan and London
Table d’écoute, CitizenK Depicting subtle, quiet scenes where “nothing dramatic is happening”, the illustrator wants to keep her drawings wide open for interpretation. “I don’t usually start by trying to make a beautiful image,” says… Read More »‘I’ll keep finding new ways to tell stories’: Meet chronicler stroke illustrator Sun Bai
Wallace Chan by Giacomo Cosua © 2025 More than the sum of its parts, this sprawling dual-site exhibition across Shanghai and Venice tackles time and scale with ambition and verve. The poet and painter William… Read More »From gemstones to 10m giants: Wallace Chan’s Vessels of Other Worlds spans Venice and Shanghai
Last Friday The Daily Heller post was a reprise of an earlier notice on Steve Brower’s last book, Roy Kuhlman: The Reluctant Modernist. I was expecting to hear from Steve about the surprise posting instead… Read More »The Daily Heller: It Was Great Working With You, Steve Brower