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Poster Cult: the latest works of Swiss printmaker Dafi Kühne

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Tunnel IV, 2024 © Dafi Kühne Tipoteca 1–25, 2020 © Dafi Kühne After completing a bachelor's degree in Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts in 2009, Kühne opened his own poster design and letterpress printing studio, "Babyinktwice", in the Swiss Alps.

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'Storytelling and emotional connection matter more than aesthetics,' says illustrator Fangfang Han

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Fast forward to 2024, and she's recently won a World Illustration Award for New Talent in Animation. My style has been shaped through years of experimentation – printmaking, collage, hand-drawing, stop-motion, digital painting – I've tried it all. An illustration about creativity for Teen Breathe.

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Sergey Isakov’s illustrations create a “quiet tension” between clean constructivism and spontaneity

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Reading "Sergey Isakov’s illustrations." Words Ellis Tree — Date 17 July 2025 Work Illustration 2D Drawing Funny Food & Drink Animals You might have come across Sergey Isakov’s illustrations if you’ve been reading The New York Times or The New Yorker lately.

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Madeleine LeBrun’s uncanny clay illustrations are inspired by insects, folk art and 90s kids TV

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Words Ellis Tree — Date 14 July 2025 Work Illustration Sculpture 3D Drawing Funny Nature Animals The Toronto-based illustrator Madeleine LeBrun isn’t using the most conventional materials when it comes to illustration – the artist specialises in a mixture of bas-relief sculpture and digital photocollage.

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“What surrounds a brand shapes how it speaks”: designer Laura Beulens on the delicate art of building a visual identity

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She joined as a junior writer in April 2024 after graduating from Kingston School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design. Across her research, writing and visual work she has a particular interest in printmaking, self-publishing and expanded approaches to photography.

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Sana Bansal’s introspective illustrations absorb you into her wistful world

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Words Ellis Tree — Date 8 July 2025 Work Illustration Print Risograph Zine Drawing Process History Sana Bansal creates all kinds of characters, from potatoes to aubergines with faces to furry creatures large and small, with tactile, warm textures she makes with “wax pastels and a simple 6B pencil.”

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Designer Gabrielle Adam is finding inspiration in everything cheesy, kitsch and fun

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Old Americana ads, the kinds of prints and posters you’ll find rummaging in stacks at flea markets, and the movement of illustrations in Disney cartoons are all on the list of things that “elicit a really strong feeling within me, one of amazement, excitement, curiosity, like an electric shock in my gut and chest”, the designer shares.