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  • PositiveNegatives
    Visualising Human Rights with Benjamin Dix’s PositiveNegatives
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    The UK-based nonprofit produces comics to educate the masses. >
    8 May 17
  • Permanent Alien
    Permanent Alien focuses on stories from the Asian American diaspora
    Design Frontiers > Art & Photography
    “What if we made a comic featuring people who looked like us for people who look like us?” >
    14 Mar 17
  • Blue Forest Collective
    Blue Forest Collective
    Blue Forest Collective is a multitalented group of creative people based in South Africa. >
    31 Jan 17
  • Ordinary Superheroes
    The comic book uncovering new perspectives on heroism and storytelling
    Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration
    The Ordinary Superheroes celebrates the everyday heroes of South Africa's resilient communities. >
    23 Sep 16
  • Bitch Planet
    Reimagining feminism on Bitch Planet
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    The patriarchy becomes a literal prison in this refreshing, feminist comic series. >
    1 Sep 16
  • Chip Kidd at AGI Open 2013.
    Chip Kidd: I’m obsessed with Batman
    Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration
    In an exclusive interview at AGI Open 2013, Chip Kidd tells us about designing book covers and his foray into comic books. >
    16 Oct 13
  • Who's afraid?
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Vampires in the desert and sightings of Kurt Cobain in the Karoo? Could it be? Who's afraid? Van Coke Kartel's latest graphic novel investigates. >
    3 Nov 11
  • Crime unleashes a reptile
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Cape Town illustrator and graphic novelist Luis Tolosana has unleashed the first episode of his self-drawn, written and funded Iguana-Man. >
    19 Aug 08
  • Between the covers with Chip Kidd
    Profiling > Graphic Design & Illustration
    There is really only one book jacket designer with a comparable profile: Chip Kidd. >
    1 May 05
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