Journal

Drawing the way home: Illustrator Pauline Pete on her artistic process and the creation of ‘Homesick House'

Sometimes you have to go out into the world to find your way home — Pauline Pete on creating ‘Homesick House', a tender story of departure, longing, and return.

The Colors of Life - Early Color Photography

The past did not happen in black and white. Photo enhancer and contributing editor of The Colors of Life, Stuart Humphryes, picks his five favorite early color photos from our latest book.

Ukraine Rising

We spoke to one of the artists in Ukraine Rising, the photographer Artem Humilevskyi, about shared identity, Ukrainian culture and how his work has changed since the start of the invasion.

Turning Over a New Leaf

In the past century, smoking weed has become a symbol of the 1960s counterculture movement, been public enemy number one in America, and conjured colorful images of morally-corrupt delinquents. Fro...

Francesca Gavin on the History of Collage

Curator, writer, and artist Francesca Gavin delves into the humble beginnings of collage and details how this form of art became a defining creative expression in the past century. A brilliant read...

Jessie Makinson's Mythical Femininity in an Aberrant World

Gaze into the fictitious, mythological spectacles created by the exuberant Jessie Makinson and you'll be ensnared by a disruptive narrative of femininity. Seeming disarrayed at a glance, when studi...

A Time Capsule of Mexican Tradition

A Brutalist structural beauty that feels like a time capsule of the Mexican lifestyle and tradition, this home is fitting that sculptor Pedro Reyes and his wife Carla Fernández, a fashion designer....

The Zestful Art of Japanese Craft

From woven barkcloth craftsmen in the northern island of Hokkaido to longbows specialists on Kyushu-the southern reach of this slender collection of masses on the Pacific-Japan has a rich heritage ...

A Story of Numbers

Moving between the fantastical world of numbers, science, and expressive artistry—Daniela Olejníková has an illustrative style that was informed by her creative youth in Bratislava, Slovakia. Scien...

The Great Bustling Bookshops of Britain

Between 1995 and 2016, almost 1000 independent bookshops across the UK closed, meaning less than 870 currently exist. Often an industry living on the line, shops had to get creative for customers a...