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While we’re constantly surprised (and pleased) by the oddly-elongated bout of sunny days we’re experiencing here in England, long days of sun are a regular occurrence for Spanish illustrator María Ramos. There’s nothing better than a picnic on days like this, and María agrees, illustrating a lunch full of character in her latest book, _Picnic,_ published by "Fulgencio Pimentel.":http://www.fulgenciopimentel.com/

Specht Studio, founded by the Belgium designer, features an array of playful designs inspired by her architectural past.

Every year, in May, hoards of publishers and book-obsessives flock to the Tate Modern in London to ogle over the tasty publications and prints that people have been producing over the previous 12 months at "Offprint":http://offprint.org/. This year, one of the featured publishers manning a stand was "Kiosk":http://shop.k-i-o-s-k.com/, where it used the occasion to launch several zines, one of which, was created by It’s Nice That fave, Tim Lahan.

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Deep Throat Studio is a Prague-based graphic design studio founded by Jozef Ondrik and Zdenek Kvasnica. We’ve long admired the studio’s output across print and web design, creating a broad output for a range of clients from large firms to non-profit organisations since they started out five years ago. Despite the fact that Deep Throat Studio have several brilliant projects to highlight, the studio was actually borne out of a “total fail from start to finish” when the pair were first…

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These new D&AD posters reference some of the most iconic promos.

With “no bias” towards the type of media its studio produces, U-P, founded in 2004 by Paul Marcus Fuog and Uriah Gray in Melbourne, creates work in the format of publications, environment design, installations, and pretty much everything in between. No matter the format, the projects U-P turns its attention towards are usually those which “further interrogate ideas about design and its possibilities.”

Residing in Semarang, in Indonesia’s Central Java region, illustrator "Fatchurofi":https://www.instagram.com/rooovie/?hl=en is a long way from the big cities of the contemporary art world. Working remotely as an art director for a design agency in Jakarta, he also spends much of his time doing freelance illustration. “I’ve been drawing for the past decade, mostly for clothing and album covers,” he says. “After suffering from a panic attack disorder a couple of years ago, however, I began to…

Manchester-based illustrator Caroline Dowsett’s colourful shape-based work serves as a gentle reminder to be optimistic.