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…
Times New Roman Classical Illustrated
The social-financial crisis that Greece is facing nowadays and the love of typography, lead designer Alexandros Papantoniou to design a typeface based on Times New Roman with a reconstructed grid,…
A festival celebrating Brazilian street culture with street arts, urban music and film
Few days ago, the wonderful festival LATA Street Culture Festival took place celebrating Brazilian street culture with street arts, urban music and film. Brazilian street culture is embedded in the…
Grégory Fages’s New Album Cover Design for The Sleeper Wakes Serie
Jeff Mills and Axis Records present FREE FALL GALAXY, The 9th Chapter of the Sleeper Wakes Serie. For the cover of this new release Jeff Mills has collaborated with the…
3rd Poster Battle 2016
Within the framework of Toolkit Designers Meeting 2016 (www.designtoolkit.org/en/toolkit2016), in association with Poster Poster (www.posterposter.org), Design Toolkit (www.designtoolkit.org) is announcing this year’s 3rd Poster Battle, which is open to design…
Serif vs Sans-Serif
text by Aggeliki Michalopoulou-Karra Adrian Frutiger was a Swiss font designer that influenced the design of fonts for more than half a century. He passed away in September 2015. During…
Posters with letter #A
Those amazing images that follow are Evdokimov Gosha’s first steps of making posters! Few prints based on the letter A. He used various materials to create them including dyes, felt-tip…
Planning An Art Show Event
by Matthew Long Although you may have deeper motivations for being an artist, it never hurts to expose your work to a wider audience and get some positive feedback! If…
Derek Friday, an Environmental Graphic & Integrated Branding Designer | Interview
Derek A. Friday specializing in modern, yet appropriate integrated brand solutions and environmental graphic design. In 2007 he founded Finndustry, a graphic design and brand development company, based in Boulder,…
Wonderful Conceptual Illustrations by Andrea Ucini
Andrea Ucini is an Italian musician currently living in Denmark. Andrea has a classical music degree from the Conservatory of Florence but also a passion for illustrative drawing which he…
2016 RIO Summer Olympics illustrations for HERSHEY’S by Matt W. Moore
Matt W. Moore had the pleasure of working with HERSHEY’S designing a range of athlete illustrations for their 2016 Summer Olympics campaign. Last week Matt was in NYC painting a…
Redesigning Tichu Card Game
The Tichu Redesign is a personal (fictional) experiment project of Greek Designer Dimitris Chatzelas, where he redesigned the card game Tichu. Dimitris Chatzelas loves typography, logos, branding and Illustration. He…
Gearing up for the International 2016 Cartoon Contest
The 2016 Cartoon Awards to be presented in Denmark, Saturday, May 28, 2016 at the Hotel Niels Bugge, Viborg. Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg, Conservative People’s Party leader Søren Pape…
The Art of Reggae Exhibition at Liverpool’s Festival of Reggae
The International Reggae Poster Contest (IRPC) and Positive Vibration, Liverpool’s Festival of Reggae, are to host The Art of Reggae Exhibition, featuring 100 reggae-inspired posters designed by artists and illustrators…