“Nicosia, the city of Utopia” International poster competition by Graphic Stories Cyprus Create and view your own printed postal card. Participate in the poster competition. Graphic Stories Cyprus invites higher…
Digging the Past… Charley Harper (1922-2007)
Charley Harper (August 4, 1922-June 10, 2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. Born in Frenchtown,…
New Facsimile Edition of Fortunato Depero’s “Bolted Book”
Designers & Books Launches a Kickstarter on October 18 to Publish New Facsimile Edition of Fortunato Depero’s “Bolted Book” The First Artist’s Book of the 20th Century A 1927 Masterpiece…
Wonderful sticker packs by the best artists
A new frenzy trend has come with the Apple latest operating system iOS 10. The stickers on iMessage App and an App store that lets you download stickers and install…
Call for Entries | 5th International Reggae Poster Contest, 2016
The 5th International Reggae Poster Contest, 2016 Theme: Toward a Reggae Hall of Fame: Celebrating Great Jamaican Music. CALL FOR ENTRIES: The 5th edition of the International Reggae Poster Contest…
Free Fonts for commercial and personal use
Free Fonts for everyone by Gatis Vilaks and Evita Vilaka! Fonts are 100% free for commercial and personal use and all of them high quality, with a lot of work…
The American Bystander Comedy #3
The American Bystander is an all-star print humor magazine edited by the legendary Brian McConnachie (National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live, SCTV). It’s just like the classic humor magazines you remember……
Jamaican Artist Cecil Cooper
Four years ago, in September 2012, I had the honor and pleasure to meet in person the Jamaican artist Cecil Cooper at one of his exhibitions in Kingston, Jamaica. His…
Sweetbread Project by Ugo Gattoni and Mcbess
Sweetbread is the result of a week of artistic residency with Ugo Gattoni and Mcbess at the URDLA print shop, located in Villeurbanne. For seven days, the two artist friends…
Atmospheric Illustrations by Coen Hamelink
Coen Hamelink works as a freelance illustrator & graphic designer from his studio in this wonderful old building at Duin en Bosch, Oude Parklaan 111-119, Castricum, near Amsterdam, The Netherlands,…
Dreamy Black and White Illustrations by Vasilis Grivas
Vasilis Grivas is a Greek illustrator who has undertaken a wide variety of illustrated projects. He has illustrated many children’s books, novels, book covers, brochures, magazines and more. The use…
Missing a Wonderful Artist and Friend Michael ‘Freestylee’ Thompson
Some of you may know, some of you may not, that I partnered with Michael Thompson, aka ‘Freestylee’, to develop the Intl. Reggae Poster Contest and to support Freestylee, a…
De- CODE the chocolate | Branding
CODE (fictional brand of chocolate) CODE is a fictional brand of chocolate designed by Mina Bakliža. Mina took inspiration from cryptography, secret language and puzzles – from Morse code and…
Anthony’s Jenkins inspiring Caricatures
Anthony Mars Jenkins was born in Toronto and spent a happy childhood there. He attended the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo from where he graduated with a…
Polish graphic designer Marta Ikanowicz
Marta Ikanowicz was born and living in Warsaw, Poland. Graduated in fields of Landscape Architecture at Warsaw University of Life Sciences and Graphic Design at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts…
How to spot dodgy clients and deal with them
If you’re a designer, especially a freelancer then it’s inevitable that you’ll be dealing with a dodgy client at some point in your career. This dodgy client might be a…
Drawing the Reggae People, Beat and Spiritual Message
Darren Smith is an artist who grew up in Bedford England and who graduated with a degree in Fine Art Painting from the then Polytechnic Wolverhampton in 1989. Although he…
Photography that bends and breaks the rules of reality
As a child Hayley Roberts was enchanted with the fairy tales her parents read to her, believing the world was full of magic and mystery. Through photography Hayley brings to…
Elizabeth Resnick speaks about her poster exhibition “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”
Designer, design educator and curator Elizabeth Resnick is no stranger to successful socio-political poster exhibitions. This year she launches her next poster exhibition on the theme “Women’s Rights Are Human…
ERASED. A new series by AIWS
AIWS presents a new series called ERASED that not only draws upon the subject of searching for the meaning of the existence at the very end of life, but as…