The Nottingham-born photographer and director builds still lifes from a colour, an object and a good joke – with subjects including a watch squeezed into a stack of onion rings and a crocodile that wants… Read More »Sam Nicklin turns eBay finds into small, funny worlds
The Tokyo-based designer and video artist lets us in on their journey and the process behind making music videos, posters and 3D-printed figures. There’s no right or wrong way into the industry. Some may land… Read More »Tamura Ikuho on skipping agency work and diving straight into freelance graphic design
At a time when our modern culture is dominated by finished products and outputs (cough, cough—generative AI—cough, cough) the German lettering artist who goes by the nom de plume Snooze, is all about the exact… Read More »The “Calligraffiti” Artist Snooze is a Master of Type Experimentation and Process
For his new solo show, the Utrecht illustrator invented an entire after-dark city and barely slept in the process. What can an illustrator make in less than a fortnight? Quite a lot, I would imagine.… Read More »Philip Lindeman builds a slightly haunted Sofia of night shops and stray cats in less than two weeks
Banned Books Week is a contradiction, since the outrage against censorship runs year-round. But for purposes of motivational optics—and lest we forget it continues to occur in libraries and schools—this special week shines an annual… Read More »The Daily Heller: Banned Books Week, Oct. 4–10
Emma and Andrew Groves have spent the last 15 years building a creative life in the Lake District. Now Fjällräven has commissioned them to hand-sew its event banners from leftover outdoor gear. I don’t know… Read More »Fjällräven bets on the handmade with giant stitched banners by Miscellaneous Adventures