About the collective
Poly & Pixel is a curated collective of digital artists publishing modern poster art as one rolling edition. It was started by a small group of creatives with a few decades between them in animation, illustration, design, games and software, who had spent their careers making pictures for other people and kept making pictures for walls on the side. The wall is where those pictures go now, alongside the work of the artists we invite to hang beside them.
Why posters
Most of us spent years making images to a brief and on a clock: frames that pass at twenty-four a second, interfaces that get redesigned, storyboards that are thrown away once the shot is made. A poster is the opposite of all of that. One image, no brief, and it stays up for years. That is the appeal, and it is what the collective is organised around.
The collective
The wall is curated, not open. We invite artists whose work holds a wall and passes the same test ours does, and the edition grows as they join. Each artist keeps their voice. The edition keeps its standard. Everything is printed the same way, on the same paper, and sold the same way, so the only thing that differs from sheet to sheet is the picture.
The name
Poly for the faceted plane, pixel for the grid. The two atoms of digital images, one from 3D and games, the other from screens, and a reminder that the parts are supposed to disappear when you step back. The name says what the work is: digital art, made for walls.
How we work
Everything in the edition is digital art. It is made on screens, with vector and raster tools, 3D, and the software we write for ourselves; Midjourney is among the tools the collective works with. The styles borrow from paint, ink and print, because those are the traditions posters come from, but the work is made in pixels and polygons and printed once, to order. A piece is finished when it passes the wall test, not when the tool is done with it.
The wall test
- It reads from across the room and rewards a closer look.
- Portrait, or croppable to 2:3 without losing the idea.
- A deliberate palette. Two to five colors beat twenty.
- Quiet margins or a strong frame edge. Nothing critical near the trim.
- No text on the art. No signatures, no watermarks. The image is the poster.
What we publish
Modern styles, one rolling edition, all of it digital. Illustrative, low poly, pixel art, and digital takes on screen print, minimalism, abstract, pen and ink, Japanese watercolor and woodblock, cute, black and white, flat, vector, Matisse-style cut paper, watercolor, oil, and whatever the next artist brings. Some weeks lean dark. Some weeks are all fruit and cats. The edition is the collective's taste, not a category.
How it is made
Every print is made to order by our production partner on archival matte paper with pigment inks, framed or unframed, and shipped from the facility nearest you. Open edition, unsigned, unnumbered. Nothing is printed until someone wants it on a wall.
Poly & Pixel is new. The people behind it are not. We speak as a collective, and the work speaks for itself.