This is a must-see for all type and letterpress fans out there: The veteran and influential English printer Alan Kitching is one of the few figures in the trade who has made the transition from a time when letterpress printing was an essential part of mass media to a current moment in which much of the appeal of this technique lies, on one hand, in the exploration of its plastic limits and, on the other, in the preservation of printing heritage. Kitching represents, at the same time, the tradition and the modernity of letterpress. He will open an exhibition, London’s Building Blocks at GRAGRA Gallery & Letterpress Studio, Madrid on March 28,…

Modernica and longtime collaborator and Juxtapoz friend Cleon Peterson have teamed up for a collection to support Cleon’s own family’s relief efforts after losing their home in the Eaton Fire in Altadena in January. In response, Modernica is releasing a special collection—The Divide—to directly support Cleon and his family. This limited-edition series features nine unique Upholstered Side Shells on Eiffel Tower Bases and an Upholstered Arm Shell Rocker, each hand-signed by Cleon. The collection embodies his bold and uncompromising artistic vision, transforming devastation into a testament of survival.

We love a good custom car design here at Juxtapoz, and this one caught our eye this past week. DART Car, the Driven Artists Racing Team, debuted their team and unveiled the look of their race car designed by Summer 2024 cover artist, Mickalene Thomas, the inaugural commission being a custom wrap for the McLaren Artura GT4 racecar as well bespoke driving suits and hand-painted helmets. DART Car’s first race of the 2024 season is the SRO GT4 America at Sonoma Raceway from March 28-30, 2025.

How is already the end of February? Because you know what February 28, 2025 means? It is the last call for entries in the 2025 edition of the A’ Design Awards & Competition. A few weeks back we asked you to enter the new 2025 A’ Design Awards. also known as the worlds’ largest design competition awarding best designs over a given year based on entries. What have you come up with? What are you thinking? Have you looked around the world and seen what is going on and not thought about making the world a better place? We think you should. 

What a time to be alive and what a time to have a good, if not better idea, on how to live. We need this, we need you and your designs. At the beginning of this year, we showed you who and where in the world some of the best designs were coming from, and now its time for you to ready your designs for the annual and prestigious A’ Design Awards, the worlds’ largest design competition awarding best designs around the world, year in and year out.  Are you ready? Because its time to enter this year’s competition! You can register to submit here. Deadline for submission is February 28th, with results announced to…

Our friends at Slowtide have just launched a Limited Edition Artist Series Collection in support of fire relief efforts in Los Angeles. The LA-born brand began the launch today with a limited-edition pre-sale of quick-dry towels featuring exclusive artwork from renowned artists and Jux friends Cleon Peterson, Geoff Mcfetridge, Jen Stark, Thomas Campbell, Robbie Simon, Ty Williams, Daren Thomas Magee, Anna Fusco and Dabs Myla. 

Wow, 2025. We are halfway to 2050! Instead of a year-end list, how about a year kick off list? The annual A’Design Awards compiles the yearly World Design Rankings, to start the year off with an overview of the  countries where innovative and revolutionizing design stems from. China often finds its way on top, with the USA, Japan and Italy being really strong. This year’s list is consistent as it was last year!

Jillian Mayer is a versatile Miami artist making public artworks, film projects, and sculptural oddities with an inventive, serrated edge. Her latest experiment is an Object Shop, where creative tributes to jerks she’s met on the internet are awaiting your company, staring at you in shiny glass visage. We relate to Phill, described as, “Clever, can’t make a decision, and works all the time.” And then there’s Nacho, who is “Quitting smoking and is sucking candy all day. Now his teeth hurt.” Mayer calls them jerks but notes, “It is important in life to have friends, some are flat little weird glass ones.”

Is it basketball season? Yes it is. And we are just busy painting in the studio and aching to be wrapped in a warm, cozy blanket. Whether watching basketball at home or working in a cold art studio, trying to outrun winter’s fading daylight, this joyful blanket with artwork by Afro-Futurist artist David Huffman will up your game in either situation. Huffman is a Bay Area legend, oscillating between dimensions. This soft 100% cotton blanket features the painting Faciazzle in his signature basketball motif. Proceeds will support the iconic Berkeley Art Center, nestled in Wild Oak Park since 1967 — a great place to visit followed by a picnic on…

Our friends at Art Helps Heaps have curated a new project of artist designed t-shirts with 100% of the net profits from the shirt sales will go directly to Children’s Medical Research Institute/Jeans for Genes. From Barry McGee to Cody Hudson, this is a great collection that goes to a greater and needed cause. Go get them now.