Risotto collects 400 joyful risograph postcards into a newspaper

Glasgow-based risograph studio Risotto has brought a global postcard project – featuring 400 illustrations by over 100 artists – together for the first time in print.

Gathering nearly a decade of monthly mail, the midi newspaper celebrates the joy and versatility of risograph printing. 

Originally developed in Japan in the 1980s for low-cost photocopying, the risograph printer has been embraced by artists and designers for its rich spot colours, layered textures and affordability. “It looks like a photocopier, but works as a screenprinter,” says Risotto founder Gabriella Marcella.

Gabriella Marcella, founder of Risotto, in her Glasgow studio. Photos by Richard Gaston.

Gabriella first encountered risograph as an exchange student at the Pratt Institute in New York. Back home in Glasgow, she tracked down a secondhand machine on eBay for around £200 and set up Risotto in 2012.

“As soon as the auction was won, my dad drove me round to the house to collect it from a pair of pensioners who used it to print their grandsons’ football gazettes,” Gabriella told The Guardian.

Today Risotto offers risograph printing services alongside its own line of explosively colourful stationery (including an annual wall calendar that’s a fixture in the Newspaper Club office.) Gabriella has also worked on public art projects and commissions for brands including Apple, Puma and Pinterest.

Riso Club: Archive, a collection of 400 risograph postcard designs, printed as a midi newspaper. Photo on the left by Alix McIntosh.

In 2017, Risotto launched Riso Club, a monthly postcard subscription highlighting work by illustrators from around the world. Each issue is dedicated to a different city and includes artwork from four artists based there, with all postcards printed by Risotto in Glasgow.  

"The newspaper marks a huge milestone. It’s so satisfying to see all 400 artworks as one colourful collection!" –Gabriella Marcella

The non-profit project has now produced 100 issues and more than 400 postcards by artists from over 45 countries, from Korea to Venezuela to Italy. (Gabriella has recently set up a digital atlas of all the cities.)

Artists who have designed postcards over the years include Atelier Bingo, Ana Popescu, Sebastian Curi and Morag Myerscough. For the special 100th issue, released in November 2025, Gabriella invited three influential figures who have shaped her practice – Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Peter Shire and Natahalie du Pasquier – to contribute a new artwork.

A visitor reads Riso Club: Archive at Risotto's retrospective exhibition in Glasgow. Photo by Alix McIntosh.

We’ve admired Risotto’s work from the very start, and were delighted to work with Gabriella to bring the whole Riso Club collection together in print for the first time. Riso Club: Archive gathers all 400 postcard designs, and an index of the featured cities, into a single midi newspaper.

Riso Club: Archive, a collection of 400 risograph postcard designs, printed as a midi newspaper.

The newspaper launched alongside a free exhibition, Riso Club 100, at Glue Factory Galleries in Glasgow this spring. The show, which ran from 11-19 April 2026, presented the full Riso Club archive in a wall-to-wall installation.

The Riso Club: Archive newspaper was launched at Risotto's exhibition in Glasgow. Photo by Colin Mearns.

"This is a huge milestone for Riso Club and a newspaper felt like a lovely way to celebrate and archive the project to date,” says Gabriella. "It’s so satisfying to see all 400 artworks, side-by-side as one colourful collection." Here's to the next 100 issues!

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