The press

I used newsprint, vintage typewriters and other mementos to tell our love story. I love how personal and meaningful these Valentine's Day decorations are.

In 2010 I made a five-month trip from Sydney to Beijing. During my travels, I met so many great artists and designers that I knew that as soon as I returned home to Germany illustration would be my new path.

In this article we're going to break down which types of microphones professional filmmakers use. We'll go over the difference between shotgun microphones, boom mics, lavalier microphones, reporter mics, and more.

The printing press is one of the most wonderful inventions that ever graced this earth. It helped to bring us all these wonderful books we can't get enough of. Here's what you need to know about this incredible invention that changed the world for the better.

Press illustrations for the Newsweek Polska by Patrycja PodkościelnyArt Direction: Magdalena Mamajek-Mich

For the compulsive list makers like us in the crowd, you know the power of putting words on paper. Jotting that task down takes it out of our active brain space, freeing our gray matter up to focus on the work at hand. We no longer worry about recall; the printed word remains unalterable whenever we need to check the list. So it is with our collective human memory, it seems. “Before the printing press, memory was the main store of human knowledge, “notes the article “Memory and the Printing…

Climate change, the pandemic, politics, and social unrest: these are just a few of the topics artist Eiko Ojala (previously) has been asked to depict for some of the world’s largest and most respected publications. Using his immediately recognizable style of paper and shadow, the Estonia-based illustrator wants the viewer “to have a feeling that they would like to touch the illustration with their fingers.” As the world has grown in complexity over the last decade, so has Ojala’s work. More

Small-press zines are the perfect marriage of design and digestible content, with heaps of pretty publications widely available to suit all interests. Just as the print press revolutionised the spread…

Cover for Interstellar Dust, a comic written by C.J. Hudson I'm doing interiors for. It's an older piece, but the comic only recently started coming out as a series.

william hone, referring to the press as “the thing,” illustrated with an impressionistic stanhope by young george cruikshank, in his pamphlet the political house that jack built, 1819 (51st edition, 1821), one of the earliest representations of a stanhope press. #printing #printingpress #stanhope #stanhopepress