Central Illustration

London commercial art agency looks to US market with limited edition prints

Reaching the ripe old age of 30 this year, London-based illustration agency Central Illustration is reaching out to American clients with two limited edition screen prints and a brand new US-focused website to represent a host of its illustration talent stateside. While they regularly work with advertising agencies such as Wieden + Kennedy, JWT, M&C Saatchi and Ogilvy, and with editorial clients including New Scientist, …

Do Book Company

New publishing house from Do Lectures produces pocket-sized guides to inspire and instruct

“The idea is a simple one,” says Do Lectures founder David Hieatt, “people who do things can inspire the rest of us to go and do things too.” This is the premise of the small yet mighty Ideas Conference, held annually on eco-tour-worthy farms in West Wales and California. Now it is also the mantra for a new arm of the Do brand, the Do …

D.I.Y. by Richard Woods

The artist's latest site-specific installation traverses art and design for a look at the ubiquity of modern renovation

by Andrea DiCenzo Seductively simple and impishly clever, Richard Woods‘ signature exaggerated wood grain takes new shape in a site-specific show at London’s Alan Cristea Gallery this month. “D.I.Y.” sees the artist simultaneously mock and pay tribute to “the cult of renovation” sweeping the modern world by covering the gallery in his block-printed parquetry, which is exacerbated by “Offcuts” and “Remnants”—two new series of woodcut …