Will Broome/ Bill Woodrow

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.

Rupert Meats

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.

Inca Starzinksy, 'Slice'

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 issue 5/City Abyss (Beata Szczecinska)

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’.

András Baranyai & Detail, Printa

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

Lindy Yeates, Resist, RMIT

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”.

Batutçu, Rosie Irvine

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 [...]

The Strange Adventures... & Detail; The Man with a New Idea is a Crank until the Idea Succeeds, Lorenzo Petrantoni

The quality and variety of the work on show at Pick Me Up, the new Contemporary Graphic Art Fair at Somerset House is a big element of its success. Decorative, bold, delicate and surreal pieces are all included in the great mix of styles on display – there really is something for everyone. One of [...]

Brecht Vandenbroucke; Landfill/Manymono

Landfill/Manymono brought its Risograph printer to Pick Me Up Graphic Art fair, creating limited edition prints for an affordable £12.

Woodblock printing, Peepshow

Alongside a selection of work from its designers, the East London collective Peepshow has brought its £3 create-your-own wood block print to the Pick Me Up graphic art fair.