Weekdays redesigns everyday pleasures in living colour

This Naarm/Melbourne-based creative studio combines typography, illustration, and space to revitalise the worlds of food, drink, and hospitality. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 26 days ago

Pencil power: the Indian creatives provoking change through illustration and design

Our Mumbai correspondent speaks to creative people using their skills and networks to rise up against political oppression across the subcontinent. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 26 days ago

Ioana Petcu’s work in the cultural sector explores linguistics as a lens for graphic design

The Paris-based designer is investigating how our ideas about language and its structure can shape the visual vocabularies we develop in our design work. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 27 days ago

Soho Radio’s rebrand features a bespoke tech tool to create custom DJ profiles

Wonderhood Design is expanding visual freedom for every DJ that comes through the stations doors for it’s ten year anniversary. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 27 days ago

“Most CDs don’t have any management training”

What to do if you're a creative director... but you’re a one-person creative team? Katie Cadwell explores the definition of a creative director and how transferable your skillset is in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 28 days ago

Issue 8 of sweet-thang zine is all about dreaming of new worlds

We sit down with Zoë Thompson to talk about the inspiration behind the latest issue of her zine and the DIY ethos that runs throughout it. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 28 days ago

Sierra Montoya Barela’s paintings are a tribute to interior design, plants and birthday cakes

This artist’s paintings border on the surreal and the mundane with clashing patterns, vibrant colours and stunted angles. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 28 days ago

Vasilis Marmatakis on the strangely traditional ways he creates Yorgos Lanthimos’ film posters

What goes into the poster and title design for films steeped in human anxieties and fever dreams? For the Greek graphic designer, it’s all worked out through water play, thousands of images mutilated and spliced together, and an acute understanding of the canvas that is the human … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 28 days ago

Mouthwash Studio, Clay Hickson, James Junk, Thalía Gochez: Get tickets for November’s Nicer Tuesdays in LA!

For the first time, Nicer Tuesdays will be landing in Los Angeles to share ideas, creative processes and stories from some of the best artists working today, with fun and candid talks set to become a source of inspiration for all. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Video artist Ramin Rahni uses an analogue synthesiser to create glitchy “paintings”

This creative polymath is drawn to the scientific formula of synthesisers and the endless visual possibilities they withhold. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

POV: Could Claude or ChatGPT be the next Apple?

With two leading chatbots getting major ads this September, AI companies are sprinting to be adopted culturally as well as technologically. But can anyone do for chatbots what Apple did for personal computing? | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

This typeface answers a key question: What if Indian typography refused to play ‘catch-up’ with the west?

Kshitij Gotiwale’s research into Indic digital numerals interrogates “who’s voices are represented in technology and whose are ignored.” | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Ba’ndo’s identity for Japanese matcha brand Nippon turns to tradition, not trends

The agency’s refined design system draws on the slow, intentional magic of the matcha making ceremony. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Porto Rocha, Jennie Baptiste and more to come: Tickets now available for November’s Nicer Tuesdays!

Our monthly event is back for talks about visual systems, globe-spanning agencies and taking photos of some of the UK’s biggest music stars, with more speakers still to be announced. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

At Adobe MAX LA 2025, creativity is still the name of the game

The three-day creative get-together – starring James Gunn, Gemma O’Brien, Meg Lewis and more – welcomes LA locals and those further across the globe to be the first to see the latest and greatest from Adobe. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The Casca Archive is a treasure trove of vernacular design from Northeast Brazil

Turning his creative obsession into something to collaborate on and be shared, designer Victor Yves has created a “living organism rather than a static repository”. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

OpenAI’s series of ad campaigns are 30 second odes to movie endings

With increasing rates of AI-usage in everyday life, OpenAI’s new ad campaign takes the shape of mini film endings – that moment where an emotional connection finally happens just as the credits roll. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The Pit is a cartoon-filled newspaper about swamps, mommies and ice fishing

After becoming disillusioned with the mainstream publishing landscape, Jules Sharp set themself on creating a free newspaper that was illustrated, optimistic, eccentric and full of heart. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Antalis and Design & Practice reimagine Keaykolour with a hands-on tool for exploring colour

The relaunch of Antalis’s premium Keaykolour range introduces a refreshed 45-colour palette and a playful new tool designed with Design & Practice, inviting creatives to compose with colour in tactile, experimental ways. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Raw, radiant and rebellious: the best bits of Us By Night 2025

Insight and highlights from one of the best creative events out there. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

If print is not dead, who’s keeping it alive?

Shifting our focus from the designer or artist, and putting a spotlight on the printmakers and presses behind their projects, we spoke to some of the people crafting our tangible visual worlds about what the next generation of printmaking might look like… and if there is one. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The Hot Air Factory is a mini computer that turns hidden AI energy costs into a physical reality

It may look utopian, but its implications are dystopian – the creative company oio subverts silent technology with a little machine and a twee pinwheel, all designed to make you acknowledge energy usage. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

How this one-man VFX team built a 4-minute-long CGI cyberpunk music video

Hear from creative director Dan French on his recent CGI work for rapper Jianbo’s music video For The Honour – built entirely from self-taught experimentation. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Harriet Richardson and F37 build a typeface made from three ages of the artist’s diary confessionals

This messy and lived-in typeface nabs glyphs from pages upon pages of diary entries, making the project “part archival, part performance”, with an ‘auto-yearn’ feature to boot. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The art of ‘wasting time’: Inside the book that documents Tehching Hsieh’s year spent in a cage

It’s Nice That speaks to the celebrated performance artist about the first of his One Year Performances, uncovering the ways his work dissects the significance and value of time. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“We’re working for a future that normalises diversity”: BIEN on their approach to inclusive character design

The motion studio walks us through its bespoke process, explaining how we can move away from tokenism and towards a more authentic representation of humanity. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“We don’t need to rely on AI to break up the monotony”

Your boss is proud AI adopter but you think it’s resulting in just plain tacky work. Katie Cadwell explains an approach for better design where everybody wins in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Magazine C is an ergonomic study of iconic chairs as cultural touchstones

You’ll want to sit down to read Magazine C, a collection of interviews and visual essays documenting singularly important chairs – offering readers a second take on what is glossed over in everyday life. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Hannah Robinson illustrates celebrities entertaining essays on what makes Britain ‘great’ for GQ

Illustrating the words of Adam Curtis, Emma Thompson, Jordan Stephens and Adolescence writer Jack Thorne is no easy feat, but this artist’s whimsical style melds them into a curious investigation into Britain’s so-called greatness. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The cooler, elder sibling of the selfie turns 100: Celebrating the centenary of the photobooth

A new exhibition at The Photographers Gallery in collaboration with Autofoto pulls back the curtain on the magical history of the machine, tracing its first rise to fame all the way to its new found resurgence. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Perfectly Imperfect is the ‘social magazine’ (and nerd’s paradise) remodelling the online sphere

Split between a platform to profile figures from Charli XCX to Francis Ford Coppola, and a social network that refuses to serve the algorithm overlords, this magazine is breaking necks. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Ant Hamlyn’s tactile and deflated sculptures depict the warm nostalgia of frozen memories

Both luxury and pedestrian, Ant Hamlyn’s recent portrayals of flattened everyday objects and scenes are featured in a new exhibition. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

MindTheGap explores how nightlife can dazzle off the dancefloor

The creative rave collective connects twin rave capitals London and Seoul for the ultimate dance experience, with its curious mascot M at the centre. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Evan Gendell’s brand identities are love letters to the rich texture of Detroit

The graphic designer works closely with local clients, and is fast becoming a go-to visualiser for the city’s entrepreneurial spirit. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

A Life Among Letters unearths an unseen chapter of Czech typography

The book gives Clara Istlerová’s revolutionary contribution to design the attention it deserves, and takes a radically personal approach to making a monograph, questioning: “what does a designer’s story look like when it includes a life?” | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

POV: Are client briefs getting worse?

As briefing documents become longer, more collaborative and more ambitious, it’s unclear whether they’re functioning as more blueprint or blindfold for creative teams. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The Clash’s Mick Jones shares his Rock & Roll collection for the ages

The punk band’s co-founder and lead guitarist shows his collection of pop ephemera – decades in the making – forming the Rock & Roll Public Library. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Yuka Hirac stretches and distorts photos to create uncanny worlds born from teenage subcultures

Reality is pushed to the brink in search of the surreal in Yuka’s fourth diary book, jajaja... 瞑想散歩 | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Ceramics and tattoo imagery come together in Adam Shrewsbury’s exercise in fragility

“I believe there is a historical connection between tattooing and ceramics. The earliest human remains ever found all have tattooing, and other than stone age tools, the oldest handmade objects we have are ceramic. The connection of course is people.” | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Applications open for the It’s Nice That x DROOL Artist Open Call

Your work could be on DROOL – the go-to store for unique contemporary art prints. For the second year, we’ve teamed up with the curated shop, which offers a place to discover and buy artworks created by the world’s most exciting up-and-coming creatives. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“I do think for the industry right now staying relevant is key”

Torn between upskilling your creative eye or adopting new technology. But wait... you’re also short on time? Shanice Mears explains how to pull in the focus in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

This collaborative typeface made from coloured tape is called... (you guessed it) Tapeface

The projects initiator, Varada Rege explains how the “fast, tactile, and unruly” nature of tape made it the best medium to disrupt typographic tradition. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Collins identity for a new climate movement emulates the healing feeling of sitting in the sun

An interchangeable and incomplete logo is an invitation for individuals to “finish the sun” and join the cause for clean energy transition. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

What kite flyers can teach us about craft and community

Step into a world of joyful and genius design, and pals spending their weekends chasing the breeze. Is kiting due a comeback? | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Shelley Horan’s otherworldly shots of everyday objects are a spectacle in styling

The Melbourne-based photographer has found endless possibilities for making familiar things look supernatural in her exploration of the still life medium. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Jasper Golding creates a metaverse protest in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians

Inspired by PlayStation 1 graphics, old video games and 3D modelling, Jasper Golding creates a safe digital space for peaceful protest to take place. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Ruslan Abasov says designing typefaces is like “dancing” with his arm

Inspired by films, geometric forms, shape and photography, this type designer is keen to experiment, even going as far to draw with a 90s computer mouse. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Rui Wang’s ambient take on holiday photography is about moments just out of reach

“I tried to choose fragments that felt like notes to the self rather than postcards, moments that suggest a story without explaining it.” | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago