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Specht Studio, founded by the Belgium designer, features an array of playful designs inspired by her architectural past.

Manchester-based illustrator Caroline Dowsett’s colourful shape-based work serves as a gentle reminder to be optimistic.

Deep Throat Studio is a Prague-based graphic design studio founded by Jozef Ondrik and Zdenek Kvasnica. We’ve long admired the studio’s output across print and web design, creating a broad output for a range of clients from large firms to non-profit organisations since they started out five years ago. Despite the fact that Deep Throat Studio have several brilliant projects to highlight, the studio was actually borne out of a “total fail from start to finish” when the pair were first…

A couple of months ago I started putting together the bare bones of an article that was supposed to be about the graphic design scene in Paris. Since the Electro explosion of the mid 2000s, and all the music-based design and image-making it spawned, I’ve had this notion of the French capital being a hub of graphic creativity; of music producers and art directors rubbing shoulders with DJs and illustrators on a daily basis, concocting plans for mind-bending record sleeves and trippy live…

The Brooklyn-based illustrator went from being a RISD student obsessed with drawing accurately from life, to an editorial illustrator depicting subjects she wants to show others. Here, she discusses this transformative process.

“Illustration is a fundamental form of visual communication”, says Tokyo-based illustrator Hiroki Nishiyama. “I believe that the meaning and appeal of ‘expression’ is to act as a trigger to connect people and things, as well as people and people.” This is evident in the illustrator’s sweeping lines and bold use of block colours that carve out scenes taken from society.

Residing in Semarang, in Indonesia’s Central Java region, illustrator "Fatchurofi":https://www.instagram.com/rooovie/?hl=en is a long way from the big cities of the contemporary art world. Working remotely as an art director for a design agency in Jakarta, he also spends much of his time doing freelance illustration. “I’ve been drawing for the past decade, mostly for clothing and album covers,” he says. “After suffering from a panic attack disorder a couple of years ago, however, I began to…

If you were inclined, you could spend all day shouting ever more overwhelming plastic stats at passersby. For instance every day eight million pieces of plastic wash into the ocean, meaning that there are something like 5.25 trillion pieces floating in the sea, with a weight as heavy as about 20 Eiffel towers. Close to 700 species of marine life are facing extinction due to the increase in plastic pollution; while nearly half of all plastic ever made has been produced since 2000.

New York-based illustrator and artist Amber Vittoria’s work is focused on non-traditional, or non-idealised, representations of the female form. Her characters appear in elaborate poses, with jiggly limbs, big thighs and prickly body hair; as exaggerated but essentially more accurate portrayals of women’s bodies.

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