Continuing the distinguished museum's year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s seminal work, Utopia, this year’s edition of the festival chose to explore the themes of community and interactivity. Alongside exhibiting a vast selection of work (the collection covered two floors), Pick Me Up 2016 further invited visitors to participate in workshops and hands-on activities such as Comic Book drawing with Mike Medaglia or Bookbinding with Hato Press, as well as offering up a series of show and tell sessions with those talented youngsters chosen as this year’s Pick Me Up Selects.
Furthermore, festival goers were also treated to a major retrospective of the work of noted British graphic designer, typographer, animator, printmaker and software developer, Alan Kitching. His spectacular work was shown alongside sketchbooks, proofs, artefacts and equipment from his studio.