Rising star, Luke Dray
LUANDA, ANGOLA - JANUARY 29: A lady watches water droplets land on her hands inside the Povoado slum on January 29, 2020 in Luanda, Angola. Every year, through our Print Futures Awards, we give talented young people grants of up to £1500 to go towards their career...
Rising Star, Sanna Zahoor
Our support in championing rising stars spans across a range of industries in the sector, from packaging to paper. We love finding out more about the roles our award winners are excelling in to demonstrate the wealth of career paths the sector has to offer. Sanna...
Inside the world of papermaking
Paper is one of the most widely used products in our sector, and outside of our sector, something that touches most of our lives everyday. There are many different kinds of paper and endless uses for it. Even more so, there are numerous processes that take place to...
Anna’s story
"The Printing Charity has been a lifeline". Anna discovered The Printing Charity when an injury stopped her from doing her job, working as a freelance photographer in the print and media sector. With her savings quickly running out, Anna found The Printing Charity...
Rising star, Sam Wallis
Sam Wallis, photographer and digital artist based in the northwest of England, has a passion for surreal digital manipulations. His latest project, Questionable Inedible, creates a visual link between mass produced, polymer-based sports equipment and the food that we...
Do Young People think Print has a Future?
As part of the IPIA’s #Punchbackprint virtual event, we heard three of our Print Futures Awards winners discuss what they think about the future of print. George Rumball, Hamza Loonat, and Jessie Sullivan, joined Richard Pepper, founder of Funky Pigeon and Lucy...
Rising star, Benjamin Wareing
Every year, through our Print Futures Awards, we give talented young people grants of up to £1500 to go towards their career development. This year we had 44 very deserving winners with promising careers in the print, publishing, paper, packaging and graphic arts...
Designer Bookbinders take summer exhibition online
Due to the ongoing pandemic, Designer Bookbinders are sharing their summer exhibition ‘Art Book Craft’ (ABC) as an illustrated online directory for everyone to view, allowing a wider audience to engage with book arts. ABC is a collection of work produced by Fellows...
Rising Star, Hilary Bell
Our support in championing rising stars spans across a range of industries in the sector, from packaging to paper. We love finding out more about the roles our award winners are excelling in to demonstrate the wealth of career paths the sector has to offer. Hilary...
Rising Star, Cameron Myers
Our support in championing rising stars spans across a range of industries in the sector, from packaging to paper. We love finding out more about the roles our award winners are excelling in to demonstrate the wealth of career paths the sector has to offer. Cameron...
Featured Posts
Lightboxes and Lettering: the importance of east London’s print industry celebrated in new National Lottery-funded exhibition
The Malvern Press, Dalston Lane, dates as on photos, courtesy of Les and Peter Wynn Lightboxes and Lettering | 17 January – 29 March 2020 at the Nunnery Gallery E3 A new exhibition at Bow’s Nunnery Gallery is set to celebrate the fascinating and important...
Designer Bookbinders’ Transferring Design initiative funded by us gains momentum
Following Designer Bookbinders’ launch of its Transferring Design initiative and four successful introductory pilots promoting the craft of bookbinding, Designer Bookbinder Fellow, Mark Cockram, recently ran a follow-up, three-day workshop at Lincoln College of Art...
Kayleigh Munn scoops the 2019 BBD&PA Best Student Book Award
Congratulations to Kayleigh Munn, a Graphic Design student at UWE Bristol, for winning the 2019 British Book Design and Production Awards’ Best Student Book category for her book, Vegas Baby. As well as being presented with a trophy at the awards event in London on 21...