London Printworks Trust has launched an imaginative initiative to raise vital funds. The campaign, called Counter Feat, was launched at an event at their Brixton base on Tuesday November 29. The Trust is currently threatened with closure if funding cannot be raised in time – to fill the huge gap left following the shock withdrawal of Arts Council funding earlier this year.

The Printa Academy has a reputation for bringing the best international graphic designers and illustrators to Budapest. For this year’s Design Week, Printa exhibited a series of brand-new silkscreen prints created by none other than Rupert Meats of British design label Rude.

Located in the Brompton Design District, this pop-up exhibition showcases the most recent work of three Royal College of Art, London design graduates, Inca Starzinsky, Henny van Nistelrooy and David Weatherfield.

Popshot magazine, a bi-annual UK publication championing contemporary poetry and illustration, was founded by Jacob Denno in 2009. His goal was simple – to reclaim poetry from the ‘clammy hands of tweed jackets and school anthologies’.

This years Pick Me Up Selects exhibition includes 24 new rising stars in the graphic design and illustration world. Each exhibit has something unique to offer and all demonstrated a real skill to their art, these are a few that demonstrate what was on offer this year. Kate Moross, a london based designer and illustrator, [...]

Moving its East London studios to Somerset House this week, members of Print Club have been using a selection of artist’s prints and printing beds set up on site to produce prints live for the visitors of Pick Me Up.

You heard it right! The most talked about graphic art fair at Somerset House is back with an exciting line up of artists, collectives and galleries for this year’s Pick Me Up!

Running from 17-27 March 2011, the art fair will bring you the UK’s most original and cutting edge graphic design talents to galleries along London’s Embankment.  This year’s exhibition, Pick Me Up Selects consists of 24 rising stars of the graphic/illustration world, who will showcase their work in a selling exhibition curated to reflect recent themes within the field.

This past year has been an exciting one for Printa. Since opening in January 2010, the Budapest based screenprinting studio has exhibited numerous works from the likes of the Swiss Urban Salon and Supalife. To celebrate their first birthday, Printa is exhibiting a collection of limited edition serigraphs produced by some of Hungary’s finest contemporary artists

RMIT’s 2010 Printmaking graduate exhibition, Resist, presents a diverse range of seventeen students’ work which focuses on the concepts of “process, materiality and politics” as well as debates surrounding “gender, globalisation, identity and sustainability”.

ARTS THREAD continues its look at the studios at Pick Me Up, Contemporary Graphics Fair at Somerset House. Rosie Irvine’s work has an intriguing, nostalgic charm that hints at stories just below the surface. She has had considerable success with her editorial work and her designs for book jackets. We loved her distinctive pieces, created [...]