Paperboy's Must Be Nice print collection to #StopAsianHate

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We recently worked with Paperboy, an app that lets you send artist-led gifts from your phone, to promote their inaugural Must Be Nice! print collection.

Featuring 19 international artists, the collection of prints shares what each contributor loves about Asian culture. Part of each sale will help support the artists with profits going towards various organisations working to combat the rise in Asian xenophobia and help the communities affected (Besea.n, End The Virus of Racism and Hackney Chinese Community Services).

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We’re super proud to have contributed a small part in helping get it into Design Week, It’s Nice That, Creative Boom, Collateral and Colossal.

A massive thanks and huge shout out to all the artists that contributed work: Matt Nguyen, Aga Giecko, Amy Phung, Arose Garden, Celine Ka Wing Lau, Christina Tan, Darcie Olley, Debbie Tea, Kimberly Morris, Jessie Wong, Lena Yokoyama, Marie Larica, Marina Ayashiro, Melissa Mathieson, Subin Yang, Vivienne Shao, Wendy Wong, Yee Poon and Yuk Fun.

The prints are available to buy from the Paperboy App, downloadable from the App Store or Google Play. You can grab a print for £30 or treat yourself to a framed one for £60. They also have a bunch of wonderfully illustrated greetings cards locked and loaded for your next occasion.

Glasgow Print Fair 2021

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We couldn’t let another year in semi-lockdown pass without another Glasgow Print Fair at Home. We invited 25 artists from Europe and beyond to create a print for us on the theme of Travel. The theme of travel is something I think everyone can connect with as we slowly emerge from lockdown. Our eyes are on the horizon with the world opening up and feeling that we will soon be able to get out there and explore.

We ran for one week this year and featured work from DR.ME, Lou Rowland, Alice Dansey Wright, Tess Smith Roberts, Conor Nolan, Eleni Kalorkoti, Kieron Redmond, Linn Fritz, Thomas Hedger, Adam Higton, Sanna Hellikki Turunen, Supermundane, KMGYeah, Andreas Samulesson x Raclet, Katie Smith, Wild Press, Dominika Lipniewska, Ruan Van Vliet, Concrete Nature Studio, David Lemm, ploterre, Michael Driver, Lauren Morsley, Hollie Fuller and Risotto Studio.

Each artist explored travel in a different way from imagining time travel to daydreaming, to a summer full of sunshine as well as many other things that we’re yearning for. With the pandemic, many fairs have not been able to run. It was really important for us to do all that we could to continue to shout about print.

This year all proceeds went straight back to the artists with many of them sharing their profits with charities close to their hearts, like Glasgow-based Refuweegee. We’ve had huge support this year with features in It’s Nice That, Creative Boom, Design Week.

Big shout-out to co-organiser Jane McDevitt and her partner Peter Byrne for taking all the photography.