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Poster Cult: the latest works of Swiss printmaker Dafi Kühne

Creative Boom

Kühne's latest book, Poster Cult - published by Lars Müller - offers a detailed insight into the evolution of his poster printing techniques since the release of his first publication, True Print, which launched seven years ago. Whatever the method, his goal is always to push the quality and the boundaries of his designs.

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Alan Kitching: London's Building Blocks brings letterpress mastery to Madrid

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Curated by Andrs Oliva, the exhibition positions letterpress as the unsung "building blocks" of modern London - both literally, in how type helped shape the city's publishing history, and metaphorically, in how design and print continue to define cultural identity.

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April 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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2025 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award Featured Booooooomand Bookmobile are teaming up for this popular open call supporting artist publishing. Winners receive $1,000 cash, their work published in the magazine, and press coverage. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. There is a $35 entry fee.

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Arcimboldo-esque Portraits Emerge from Tools of the Trade in Early 19th-Century Aquatints

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Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful—if occasionally unsettling—tradition of composite portraiture in a series of aquatints depicting a florist, a baker, an armorer, a tailor, and several others, made from the sum of their tools and wares. .” Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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

Its Nice That

My work often delves into themes of solitude, movement, time, and imagination”, the illustrator says, “I draw inspiration from printmaking artists and the structured aesthetics of Constructivist designers, as well as the beauty found in everyday life.”

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

Its Nice That

The illustrator has developed a particular love for print over her career for all of its mystery and imperfection, finding in it a rather complete way of communicating all the nostalgic nuances of her drawings in editions of self published books and illustrated comics such as her zine Aloo Kachaloo.

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Photos as a living organism: Riya Panwar reinvents the photographic canvas

Its Nice That

But what London-based photographer and printmaker Riya Panwar does goes even further – she asks the question “can photography become a living organism?”. Drawn to processes that feel alive, Riya chooses canvases in the forms of apples, leaves and soil.