RETOUCHERS DIGITAL ARTISTS
YOU ARE INVITED
THE LONDON POST CLUB SUMMER PARTY
THURSDAY 9TH JULY 2026
SPEAKERS
RANKIN
FAIK: “Taste is the new talent” (thats you)
An interrogation of AI’s impact on creativity.
Figma Weave
DEMO: bridging the gap between AI capabilities and human creativity
After two packed events, The London Post Club is back!
THURSDAY 9TH JULY 2026. 6.30pm - 11.30pm
7 Dials Club - Covent Garden
42 Earlham St LONDON WC2H 9LA
The Lineup
Rankin
PHOTOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR & ICON
As one of the most influential forces in British photography, Rankin has spent decades redefining commercial and editorial imagery.
He will be diving deep into FAIK—his groundbreaking AI magazine project that remains the absolute high-water mark of creative, personal work in this space. While it launched over a year ago, its execution and insights are still completely relevant. For image-makers, Rankin basically nailed it.
We’ve invited him to discuss the journey of making it, what he learned at the time, and now—having lived with it for a year while watching the industry creak forward—where he feels we stand today.
Figma Weave
AI PIPELINE INNOVATORS
Known for pushing the technical envelope, Figma Weave sits at the intersection of high-end visual AI pipelines and digital artistry. The team will be presenting their platform and showing how retouchers and digital artists can leverage their existing technical language to work intuitively with powerful AI tools. They’ll demonstrate how to seamlessly bridge the gap between traditional high-end compositing and cutting-edge generative technology, streamlining complex pipelines without sacrificing the meticulous detail our industry is built on.
Music
DES MORGAN
Art director, musician, DJ and Vinyl junkie, Des Morgan will be playing a listening set - that will fill your ears with Honey and soul, or fill your body with dance - Lets see what happens..
We have a sponsor
We are incredibly proud to have Stanley’s Post sponsoring our event; they are a world-class post-production studio renowned for bringing commercial campaigns to life with exceptional artistry, hand-crafted retouching, and cutting-edge CGI. By masterfully blending human intuition with advanced AI-led workflows, they consistently deliver stunning, high-end visuals for global brands from initial concept all the way through to final delivery.
“We are proud to be associated with The London Post Club. We love the idea and ethos of collaboration, and getting together, and sharing ideas, and just catching up with old friends over a beer. We are stronger together as an industry.”
FAQs
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Get you tickets here: Ticket Taylor
Only £15 and goes towards putting on the night.
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A community of practice.
In an AI-driven landscape and an increasingly remote industry, the art of post-production can feel like a solo journey. The London Post Club is an independent movement built to change that.
We bring together the creatives shaping the final frame—from high-end retouching and VFX to CGI, compositing, and precision grading. No ego, no gatekeeping. Just an industry-focused space to collaborate, share technical workflows, and build a stronger local network.
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A community of practice is a group of people who share a common interest or profession and come together to share knowledge, present ideas, solve problems, and improve their skills through regular interaction. We learn from each other by sharing experiences, discussing best practices, and Hearing about whats ‘going on’.
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Good question. The reductive answer would be: sitting in the dark, drawing over other people's pictures all day. But in reality, we create work that is intrinsically perfect. The skill and craft involved means the label "Digital Artist" holds more meaning for us. It’s not just about wielding Photoshop like a magic wand; we also use CGI, compositing, and grading tools to create stunning images.
If anyone has a better one-liner for this question, let us know!
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There are several reasons:
- As the industry changes, sharing information, contacts, and ideas can help us all navigate it more easily.
- These meetings will feature short, engaging talks to support and inspire our practice.
- Since the "blip," many of us no longer work in studios or offices. We're isolated in our home offices and need to get out, meet everyone, put faces to names, and start conversations that can continue into the future.
- Many of us know each other, having followed similar career paths and worked together in the past.
- Some of us continue to work together on projects but only meet on Zoom or Slack. It's time to bring it back to IRL.
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Probably. We have quite specialized jobs. There aren’t that many of us, and we’ve all likely seen each other’s work and know who did what. So there is only a few degrees of separation. We’ll make introductions….
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Kind of, but in an understated way. This event is about meeting and sharing ideas with your peers. The goal is to enhance the group's expertise by exchanging knowledge, sharing ideas and improving our business. In practice , this could mean proping up the bar for a few hours having a laugh.
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Yes. Having talks that inspire, inform or entertain are part of the ethos of a successful community of practice.
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If you describe yourself as a commercial artist, retoucher, or digital artist and you have a portfolio of work and clients, then yes. If photography is just a personal interest, then probably not.
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Many! Join us, and you’ll never get banding again, and your Photoshop will never crash. (Just kidding, but we can dream, right?)