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Natalie Mady pictured in a garden

Celebrating the women leading community business

A conversation with Nat Mady, Hackney Herbal

community, community business, herbal, herbs, international womens day, leadership, mental health, nature, social enterprise, women

A tourist at home

Spending a week pretending to be a tourist in your hometown might seem a bit boring, but it’s not when Cornwall is your stomping ground.

35mm, blackandwhite, bw, cornwall, film, holiday, home, ilford, journalism, life, pentax, photography, travel

Entering Sophie’s World with duotone print

Adding to its long list of beautifully reproduced editions, The Folio Society has brought Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder to life

books, design, duotone, edition, font, illustration, jostein gaarder, journalism, novel, philosophy, print, sophies world, the folio society
Joe Coleman. Photo: Sadie Osborne

Sign-writing: a lick of paint

It is where the industry started – painting letters and symbols by hand. Summer Brooks speaks to the artisans of traditional sign-writing and some new faces about why they love it

art, better letters, design, gilding, graphics, handpaint, history, lettering, print, signage, signpainting, signwriting, traditional, typography

Print powers a digital experience in art galleries

Warhol Women is a new interactive exhibition that uses a combination of print and digital technologies to bring the work to life

art, digital, experience, galleries, NFC, photographs, print, warhol, women

Liquid fire: the masters of neon

From its heyday in America during the ’50s and ’60s to its present day renaissance, it seems that neon has come full circle. Summer Brooks discovers why the world hasn’t fallen out of love with neon just yet

art, bespoke, craft, design, hand crafted, history, neon, signmaking, signs, traditional

Fashion designer continues to pioneer 3D print

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen has pioneered the use of 3D printing technology in fashion design since the start of her career, and her latest collection continues to push the boundaries

3dprint, 3dprinting, additive manufacturing, engineering, fashion, iris van herpen, printing

Printed memories tool helps tackle dementia

Ricoh has partnered with Alzheimer’s Research UK to launch an innovative digital postcard tool to bring families closer together with personalised, printed images

alzheimers, charity, dementia, family, memories, postcard, print, research

The Human Printer challenges a digital world

A 36-hour print marathon at the Art Tank in Selfridges saw the minds behind The Human Printer create their latest large-scale artwork – by scaling back the printing process

art, central saint martins, design, digitisation, graphics, human, print, selfridges

The Philadelphia bookshop printing its own books

Shakespeare & Co. rose to fame after becoming one of the only bookshops in America with an Espresso Book Machine that can print a title in the same time it takes to make an espresso

books, bookshop, coffee, espresso, feature, philadelphia, print, printing, publishing, self publishing, shakespeare & co

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