Design & Paper

Paper is often celebrated for its versatility, but few artists have explored its possibilities as thoroughly, or as playfully, as Scottish paper artist Charles Young. Best known for his ambitious Paperholm project, Young has spent years transforming simple sheets of paper into an extraordinary world of miniature architecture, animated structures, and imagined landscapes that blu...

In a world where so much of our visual culture exists fleetingly on screens, there’s something uniquely special about receiving a beautifully printed piece of art through the post. It’s tangible, collectible, and often unexpected. It’s thoughtful, and it makes you feel special – and who wouldn’t like that? Few projects celebrate this feeling quite like RISO CLUB, the monthly pos...

There is a quiet ingenuity to life in the countryside. Far from the polished aesthetics of design magazines and carefully curated interiors, everyday solutions emerge from necessity rather than intention. A piece of wire becomes a repair, a weathered tarpaulin a roof, an old tyre a flower bed. These improvised objects are rarely considered design, yet they tell stories of resili...