From Olivetti to Instagram: a short history of modern brand design

In an excerpt from Taschen’s The Elements of Brand Design, Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller chart the genesis and evolution of modern branding and visual identities, from the 19th century to how we experience them today. | Continue reading


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Like a sad Lana Del Rey song, Louise Laborie’s comics illustrate a quiet, neon Americana

Collecting visual references from film and music, the artist’s tender drawings are like a road trip across an empty America, where transience is never-ending. | Continue reading


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Studio Nari wordmark gives Threads a voice of its own

Studio Nari’s new wordmark for Threads helps the platform step out from Instagram’s shadow, with a flowing – yet chiselled – design that reflects the momentum and immediacy of IRL conversation. | Continue reading


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Sicko is a book that celebrates the design of airline sick bags and the man who’s collected them since 1989

What else is there to say? This book is sick. | Continue reading


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Tractor Beam is a “soilpunk” sci-fi magazine with psychedelic design that teleports you to another world

This speculative fiction online magazine is all about the “soilpunk”, the aesthetics of resistance on planet Earth. The website takes unique, imaginative stories and goes even further with them, turning the entire web experience into a rabbit-hole of trippy visuals and seamless n … | Continue reading


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“Our power has always been in the ability to curate”

If you’re finding the impacts of AI and the relentless demands of algorithms are draining your team’s creative ambitions, you’re not alone. In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums, Katie Cadwell offers some much-needed motivation. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 days ago

Enter the Bucketverse: KFC’s finger-licking rebrand turns an icon into an entire world

Created with agency JKR, the next chapter for the chicken giant spans a new 3D logo, custom typefaces, restaurant design and serious amount of sauce. | Continue reading


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Bao’s BFF branding embodies the best of fast food and convenience stores

Designed in collaboration with Hato, the brand design for the Bao founders’ new restaurant represents fast culture – and is also entirely open-source. | Continue reading


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Inside the handcrafted world-building of Olivia Rodrigo’s The Cure music video

An army of over two dozen craftspeople, led by production designer Liam Moore, worked for a month on a gargantuan undertaking that bridged the worlds of practical effects, stop-motion puppetry and miniature art. | Continue reading


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The Weekend With Yinka Ilori

You’ve landed on some cultural recommendations for an even better weekend: flick through Yinka Ilori’s rundown of what to read, watch, listen to and eat! | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 days ago

Daisy Chain, Jazz Grant, Lily Kong and Alfie Whiteman: Tickets now available for July’s Nicer Tuesdays!

At July’s event in London, expect talks from a motion design studio, an illustrator of beautiful rural scenes and an ex-Tottenham goalie-turned-photographer! | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Priscilla Saada’s photo series Moons is a cheeky snapshot of modern motherhood

Styling intimate and relatable slip moments, the series is an ode to everything a mother juggles with little ones under her arms. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Fancy a fresh set of nails? Caitlin McCarthy’s animated acrylic body horror might make you think again

Inspired by Japanese gore films and the body horror of self-manicures, this animator navigates the trials and tribulations of cosmetic chaos. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

From the dancefloor to the afters, this hedonistic book is an unfiltered photographic history of queer nightlife

Sex, Clubs, Dissent is a fantastic foray into queer image-making that defies “easy categorisation or legibility”. Instead, it revels in its multiplicity. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Lily Li uses watercolour paint “like snow” to translate the illusions and struggles of immigration

This illustrator’s new story project Northbound is about how people are shaped the persistence of struggling within a system. The results are bleak and beautifully painted. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Meet the iconic printmakers that shaped half a century of the UK’s contemporary graphic art

In this deep dive into 50 Years of Print, the exhibition celebrating art from the archive of Harvey Lloyd screens, we go behind the scenes on the studio’s remarkable legacy and its imprint on design and illustration today. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Mamdani’s NYC World Cup campaign is inspired by sports memorabilia, city signage, the subway and the five boroughs

Working with designer and illustrator Arsh Raziuddin, Mayor Mamdani’s City Hall campaign aims to build community by being rooted in local visual culture. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 8 days ago

Crack a cold one and enjoy Glenn Kitson’s noisy love letter to British colloquialisms for Strongbow

The Streets-soundtracked campaign, directed by Glenn Kitson in collaboration with Otherway, is a belter! This ode to Britishisms and the nation’s number one cider brand puts authenticity first. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 8 days ago

Unpack how Amanita Design created an entire game out of cardboard, paper and 3D programmes

The newest game from Czech games studio Amanita Design doesn’t just think outside of the box, it’s literally made from the box. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 8 days ago

“Make your work as easy to find as possible”

Creative Career Conundrums is a weekly advice column from If You Could Jobs. Each week their selected panel of professionals from the creative industry answers your burning career questions to help you navigate the creative journey. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 8 days ago

Sebastian Curi, How&How, Minute Shorts, Canva: Tickets now available for Cannes Nicer Tuesdays!

We’re teaming up with Canva to bring Nicer Tuesdays back to Cannes for 2026! Join us for an inspiring line-up of talks on analogue illustration, short-form filmmaking, genre-defying branding and creative direction. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 9 days ago

From Moomin to Heartstopper: How comics have told real queer stories since the 1940s

Now open at the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London, Queer as Comics is the UK’s first major exhibition on the subject. We speak to curator Paul Gravett about its rich archive of work, and why this format deserves more recognition. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 9 days ago

Meet Nice Groceries, the creatives shaking up the production agency model with the slow craft of analogue film

From camcorders and Super8 to 16mm, the emerging studio is creating commercial campaigns that hold the nostalgia and charm of indie, amateur movie-making. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 9 days ago

A24 creative director Liam Hamill embraces brainrot with his monthly music venue posters

The associate creative director behind A24’s biggest hits is trading blockbusters for Brooklyn brainrot, internet satire and tongue-in-cheek energy for venue Baby’s All Right. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 9 days ago

The Weekend With Julia Schimautz

For The Weekend With, creative people share cultural recommendations across food, film, fashion, literature, music and more, to help you make the most of your time off. This week, Julia Schimautz offers up her top picks. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 12 days ago

Mark your calendars for New Designers 2026

Between 1-4 July 2026, New Designers 2026 takes over Islington’s Business Design Centre, London, in an entirely new four-day programme celebrating and showcasing creative graduates. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

Anthony Wilson’s Mawmaw is a tender photobook on the grandmothers who became mothers again

Mawmaw is as much of an education as it is an absorbing narrative on West Virginia’s grandfamilies – families in which grandparents become primary caregivers again. Photographer Anthony Wilson shoots them in all of their complexity. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

James Stuart is railing against boring design with techniques inspired by the spirit of Arabic hardcore music

From reconfigured American flags to decimated collages, James Stuart is a graphic designer, filmmaker and musician whose work has the riotousness of independent rock music as well as the craft of careful calligraphy. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

“Music venues are the engine of the creative industries”: what we can learn from the graphic ephemera of our lost clubs and pubs

The V&A’s newest display memorialises and preserves the visuals of a vanishing live event landscape. But not all is doom and gloom, as curator Harriet Reed and her team prompts visitors to cherish the ones still standing and perhaps even envision what the future could look like. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

“There is no formula for art”: Murugiah on why you should make art about things you love

What has Murugiah, the multi-disciplinary British and Sri-Lankan artist, not done? He’s an artist, illustrator and designer in London, and his recent talk on May’s Nicer Tuesdays stage took us through just about everything he’s done with his boundless imagination, from exhibition … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

Koto dug into the archives and revived an 80-year-old wordmark to rebrand Norton Museum of Art

The new branding system pays homage to the institution’s history while bringing it firmly into the future, with colours inspired by Florida’s landscape and a redrawn seal. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

Daryn Roongrawewan doesn’t design logos, she crafts “ornamental icons”

The designers’ visual systems often find their start in off-piste vintage design references and explorations off screen – that’s why they don’t really look like anything else you’ll see today. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

How does contemporary type design translate into the wider world? Type01’s Amber Weaver shares her wisdom

Amber Weaver, the founder of Type01 (a type-led creative media platform as well as font market Type Department and type magazine Typeone) joined us on stage at London’s Nicer Tuesdays to take us the through the Type01 universe, from its feminist origins and creation of the magazi … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 15 days ago

A peek into how Pinkpantheress’ new noughties-infused music video was created with a 21-year-old VFX visionary

This emerging Polish voice in the editing community shows how Gen Z is bringing forth an exciting and innovative visual attitude to contemporary pop music videos. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 15 days ago

Why design studio OnePlus treats branding like cultural excavation, not invention

Vintage references are reconfigured into inventive visual identities for bars and books alike at this Milan-based practice. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 15 days ago

Why minimalist aesthetics (smuggled in as the language of progress) are stifling truly Arab design

Our Cairo correspondent looks at how the absence of design criticism in the Arab world has weakened the field’s ability to assess itself, and uses the branding of the Grand Egyptian Museum to ask who really gets to define ‘good design’ in the region. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 15 days ago

“At 28, you are absolutely not too old for this industry”

You don’t love the work your agency produces and you’re starting to feel like the clock is ticking on finding your way into something new. But hold your horses! In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums Kat Wong explains why its never too late to roll the career dice again. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 16 days ago

“I try to dream collectively”: Photographer Delali Ayivi on creative projects as catalysts for communities

Delali Ayivi is a Togolese-German photographer based in London and Lomé, recognised for her work exploring identity and authentic storytelling, and in her Nicer Tuesdays talk she asked: who gets to decide what’s possible in art? She also reflected on how image-making has allowed … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 16 days ago

This candy-filled photo series takes corner shop staples and turns them into luxury items

Commercial Candy explores how something mass market can be turned into rare treasure when under the right lens. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 16 days ago

Ey Studio avoided ‘gourmet’ trends for something more authentic to rebrand Italy’s most iconic panettonne

In this refresh on the brands classic packaging, The Italian studio struck a balance between re-establishing the Milanese confectioners contemporary relevance and honouring the modernist heritage of a household name. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 16 days ago

Catalyse your creative leadership with UCL’s new master’s degree

The answer for those too creative for traditional business school, the new MSc in Creativity, Innovation and Leadership is backed by an advisory board drawn from Adobe, Ogilvy, IDEO, YouTube and more. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago

Trevor Small works through his brain injury with the ultimate art therapy: embroidery

After a brain injury that disabled his left arm, Trevor Small went from mechanic to full-time embroidery artist – and found art therapy in the process. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago

How do you design youth? The Young Vic’s new logo uses motion blur to flip dated theatre branding

The Young Vic is at the cutting edge of modern theatre. Now, the world-renowned institution is flying into the future with it’s recent visual overhaul from venturethree. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago

“Lots of creatives have a password-protected part of their portfolio”

NDAs are rife in the creative industry but you’ve started to feel like they might be halting your progression – so how can you work around them? Katie Cadwell offers insight in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 21 days ago

Los Campesinos!’ 20-year archive of silly band T-shirt designs is a sweaty journey through indie rock aesthetics

The classic UK emo band has reached its 20th birthday. For the special occasion, the seven-piece outfit has created an archive of every piece of T-shirt they put out, charting the aesthetic values, political attitudes and sometimes football madness from 2006 until now. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 21 days ago

Vinca Petersen’s new photo series on the Isle of Skye is “an invitation to imagine an alternative future”

Nearly three decades after her landmark series No System, the photographer uprooted everything she knew and moved to the Isle of Skye to build a new life for herself – both physically and metaphorically. A meditative new series depicts this transition with raw beauty. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 21 days ago

Plug in! Michael Romanowicz’s Outlet Atlas is a gorgeously designed guide to power adapters and outlet types

If your special interest is outlet types and power adapters, then boy do we have the online archive for you. Lovingly created by a designer who was frustrated with boring SEO-optimised websites whilst travelling, this community-based website seeks to make a guide that is as hands … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 21 days ago

The revolution will not be optimised: on frictionmaxxing and the creative virtues of inconvenience

In a culture obsessed with seamlessness and instant fulfilment, inconvenience is starting to feel strangely radical again. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 22 days ago