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News & interviews
- "8 Must-Know Chinese Illustrators Blending Tradition and Innovation"
Creative Boom · Oct 14, 2025
Creative Boom’s feature 'East Meets Everywhere' spotlights eight Chinese illustrators represented by Caper Illustration, a London–Shanghai agency bridging Eastern and Western visual cultures. The article highlights how these artists blend traditional Chinese art forms with modern digital techniques, working with major global brands. It celebrates the diversity, innovation, and global reach of contemporary Chinese illustration.
- Hayley Wall: Mastering Complex Ideas Through Illustration
It's Nice That · Jul 29, 2025
The article profiles illustrator Hayley Wall, exploring their decade-long career creating work centered on queerness, disability, gender, and mental health. It highlights their editorial commissions for outlets like The New York Times, LA Times, and Sick Magazine, and delves into their process of translating emotion and identity into richly textured, symbolic illustrations. Written by Sudi Jama, the piece emphasizes Hayley’s belief in hope, community, and storytelling through visual art.
Sick MagazineLA Timeseditorial - Spreeeng Rethinks Design with Cooperative, Collaborative Approach
It's Nice That · Jul 2, 2025
The article profiles Spreeeng, a transnational graphic design cooperative operating across New York, Paris, London, and Stuttgart. It explores their horizontal, non-hierarchical model and collaborative approach to editorial, exhibition, and identity design for cultural clients like the V&A and The Design Museum. The piece highlights their emphasis on shared authorship, pedagogical projects, and self-publishing initiatives such as Dispatches.
SpreeengV&AThe Design Museumbranding|editorial|exhibition - Migrant Journal No.5 Micro Odysseys by Offshore Studio
BP&O · Nov 20, 2018
BP&O reviews Offshore Studio’s design for Migrant Journal No.5, titled 'Micro Odysseys'. The issue explores microscopic and invisible movements through a tactile and conceptual editorial design, featuring sandgrain embossing, metallic inks, and vivid fluorescent red. The review praises the continuity of type, material play, and thematic depth across the Migrant Journal series.
Offshore StudioMigrant Journaleditorial - Migrant Journal by Offshore Studio
BP&O · Sep 26, 2018
BP&O reviews Offshore Studio’s design for Migrant Journal, a six-part publication exploring migration in all its forms. The article examines the journal’s material richness, custom typography, and provocative use of metallic inks, noting how its design both seduces and challenges readers. Richard Baird highlights the project’s conceptual depth, its slow journalism ethos, and its commitment to a total design vision.
Offshore StudioMigrant Journaleditorial - Migrant Journal No. 1–3 by Offshore Studio
The Brand Identity · Feb 7, 2018
The Brand Identity features Offshore Studio’s design and art direction for Migrant Journal No. 1–3, a publication exploring global migration and the circulation of people, goods, and information. The Zurich-based studio handled both the editorial design and co-editing of the project, which uses a bold color palette and sans serif typography.
Offshore StudioMigrant Journaleditorial - New Brand Identity for Gustav Almestål by Bedow
BP&O · Oct 2, 2017
BP&O’s Richard Baird reviews Bedow’s brand identity for Swedish still life photographer Gustav Almestål. The identity features a sculptural monogram, multi-coloured foil printing, and contrasting typefaces Portrait and Heimat Mono, reflecting Almestål’s interplay of light, shadow, and craftsmanship. The design balances historical art references with modern material expression to mirror the photographer’s distinctive visual style.