Printed matter

William Luz makes up one-third of the much loved Nous Vous Collective and has recently released a brilliant publication, _The Shape It Makes_. Over the past few years, William has accumulated sketchbooks full of abstract forms. These drawings usually act as the starting point for more significant projects, but the illustrator felt that they “had a quality of their own”, which he wanted to expand on. “I’d been trying a few methods to replicate the quality of coloured pencil drawings in print…

Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects

Jen Shear, an artist based in New York City and California, created these black and white newsprint collages for a publication produced by Heavy Time. The images are usually of sexualized bodies or scenes from outer space, and often surrounded by small cut-out icons common to weed culture, r...

Balmer Hählen is a Lausanne, Switzerland based creative studio focusing on #GraphicDesign and #ArtDirection. For the Rendez-vous des créateurs 2017 invitations, the studio has created a series of printed matters based on unique typography and surprising forms that push the limits of current printing technology. The creative people of Balmer Hählen have created the invitation with the idea in mind: “What’s going on if the impression took over the graphic design?” #typography

Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and other artists' publications.

Random illustrated mini zines from the Mini Zine Box Set published by Bananafish Books (Shanghai). A Mini Zine is a palm-sized, flash fiction, handmade artist's book, with many lovely names and monikers like little monster zines, micro books, Mame-hon (Japanese: bean-books), and more. Inspired...

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Melek Zertal guides us through a fragment of _The X-Files_' famous FBI agent Dana Scully, in which the clerical banal tangles with the paranormal. We find ourselves sharing a walk with the brilliant scientist-cum-agent, where loneliness and weariness allow us to glimpse moments of fragility. List...

"This show is fourth in a continuing series begun in 1969 with '557,087' in Seattle, Washington. (The others: "955,000" in Vancouver, B.C.,1970; '2,972,453' in Buenos Aires, 1971.) The titles are the population of the cities in which the shows took place; in this case, Valencia, California, where...

Depending on who you ask, _19 in 2021_ is a nonlinear sci-fi serial about aliens and time travel, queer brown teenage angst and surveillance capitalism, or specters and spectrums. - Martian Press