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 | 22 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 | 23 days ago

Pablo Delcan allows everyone to become a non-AI artist with community project Prompt Brush 2.0

This artist took on thousands of prompts that would otherwise get fed to AI generative models and turned it into a hit book. Now, he’s opened it up to everyone to get behind the cause – together, artists across the web are showing that anyone can draw, you don’t need a robot and … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 23 days ago

A tobacco factory turned restaurant, Nikotin’s logo takes the shape of a cigarette

A lesson in making something instantly cool and recognisable, Davy Denduyver’s design system uses typography as a clever nod to the restaurants past. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 23 days ago

Zander Raymond’s improvised collages are made from daily debris and things you might find in the bin

“Gentle nudges, notices and gestures” bring the artist’s wonderful pieces into being. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 28 days ago

Max Lancaster’s Bunny And I is a delicate documentary on schizophrenia that swaps spectacle for sensitivity

In this quiet photo series, the viewer meets Bunny, a sharp and alert fellow who day-drinks, fills his notebooks to the brim and hears the voice of God. But movie cliches of mental disorders are thankfully absent, instead favouring the lovely likenesses between family members. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 28 days ago

Technical readiness and creative bravery: Instrument agency’s formula for leading the charge in design

Instrument’s CCO Nishat Akhtar speaks to the company’s 20 plus years in design and technology, and its history of being one step ahead of the game. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 29 days ago

The Click’s clever university branding puts the ‘I’ in identity, individual and Imperial College London

UK branding studio The Click know that universities don’t compete on logos, but on belonging – that’s why they’ve designed a visual identity that is braver, not louder. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 29 days ago

Jeremy Liebman’s debut Apartamento book traces family life as language begins to disappear

After a decade shaping the publication’s visual identity, the New York-based photographer turns inward with a five-year photobook exploring family and mortality. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 29 days ago

“Evolving your career into a position of influence is a natural next step”

Your career is starting to feel stagnant and you know you’re staying in your comfort zone – how do you take steps to progress to the next level? Kat Wong offers her advice in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Epidemic Sound gives agencies faster soundtracking and greater creative control

Human at the core, with powerful AI-assisted features, the soundtracking platform isn’t afraid of new technology, but understands the responsibility in harnessing it. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

How Bayeux Tapestry inscriptions and folklore brought handcrafted warmth to the Hastings Castle branding

Clare and Charlie Noon shed light on Conqueror Sans, and why their welcoming identity for one of the UK’s oldest historical sites makes a “decisive break from heritage convention”. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Hyejin Song’s sushi utensils book archives the tools behind Tokyo’s most famous kitchen

An intimate view of craft and culinary culture, this film-to-book translation of David Gelb’s Jiro Dreams of Sushi takes a closer look at what’s on the world sushi masters work bench. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“What aesthetic is this?” Elizabeth Goodspeed on the push to categorise visual culture

Online, images are increasingly treated less as singular works than as pieces of a broader aesthetic puzzle – each with a distinct label. But what gets lost when creativity is compressed into searchable categories? | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

DEMO Fest 2027, starring… you? Submit your motion design for a chance to be screened worldwide

Showcasing the best in class for cutting edge motion design, the festival founded by Studio Dumbar/DEPT® is back for 2027, with submissions free and open now. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The designers injecting DIY charm into Pigeons & Planes’ annual mixtape

Jean Pierre Consuegra and Leo Horton muse on the beauty of long timelines, the power of the Instagram DM and why creative partnerships are best when you’ve got different specialisms to bring to the table. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Meet Louie Zong, Pixar storyboard artist and Blender illustrator who can tell a story about anything

Inspired by 90s edutainment, Final Fantasy, renaissance paintings and editorial illustrators, Louie Zong believes that sitting in the intersection between the past and present is the key to making thought-provoking stories. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Matilde Viegas’ sun-soaked photo series captures the cacophony of Portuguese markets

A way of confronting the frictionless, highly automated nature of modern life, Dia de Feira (Fair Day), is a series that honours the bustling bodies and clashing senses of the local market. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

More of the same: how creative rituals can help you break free from the idea echo chamber

Why inspiration feels harder to come by and how three types of creative ritual could be our strongest defence against the slow erosion of taste, attention, and intention. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Melt into Steph Hardy’s soft illustrations of sweet treats and “bad day” snacks

Pulling away from a focus on plants, the artist has turned her brush to a number of tasty visual treats of late, all in her signature fuzzy style. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Most creative work is made to a brief – so is fake art in film actually ‘fake’?

The Christophers, a new Ian McKellan-starring film includes 16 ‘fake’ artworks by painter Barnaby Gorton. Our culture columnist Gary Grimes argues that this body of work isn’t so different from the pieces that hang in our galleries. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Why a 53-year-old travel brand is going back to guerrilla print: Lonely Planet on its pocket-sized zine, Artifact

Despite everything existing in the digital, the world’s most popular travel guide publisher is sticking close to its roots with a new DIY print offshoot that seeks to connect us with what it truly means to escape. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

What makes a branding system sustainable? For Stoëmp, it’s rooting it in something deeper than style

“What really matters is personality. Not a fixed identity, but a living one. Just like people, brands evolve. The key is to evolve without disconnecting from your core.” | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

What makes a branding system sustainable? For Stoëmp, it’s rooting it in something deeper than style

“What really matters is personality. Not a fixed identity, but a living one. Just like people, brands evolve. The key is to evolve without disconnecting from your core.” | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

How can I make my clients take me seriously?

Feeling like you and your work are overlooked is demoralising. Katie Cadwell demonstrates how you can prove your capabilities in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Hellcare Regular is a typeface that parodies the cryptic chicken-scratch of doctor’s handwriting

The American health care system is mind-bogglingly cruel and cryptic. When Parker Jones found herself trying to read countless medical documents, she teamed up with Rajshree Saraf to reverse-engineer the infamous illegibility of doctor’s handwriting. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Alexander Coggin challenges the “stock-still” with the ephemerality and quiet sadness of life in NYC

As the photographer returns to new York City to live and work full-time, he’s finding serendipitous moments, strange beauty and visible liminality following him all around. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Stink Studios’ identity for Saturday Night Live UK is a patchwork of London’s signage and type design

Stink Studios got the hefty (and top secret) design brief to give an identity to Saturday Night Live UK. To face up against the gigantic US reputation, the global creative studio chose to literally carve it out of London itself. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Harry Grundy’s new works on sandpaper are drawn at 3,000RPM

Working with the everyday hardware to create “something sensitive and slow from something biting and fast”, these abstract compositions pull the colours of rare wood varieties over the grit at full pelt. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

How Alfie Whiteman – pro footballer turned photographer and director – shows the turbulence of change through his vulnerable work

The ex-Tottenham goalkeeper speaks to It’s Nice That about tackling loneliness with creativity, being inspired by the work of Nadia Lee Cohen, and his new exhibition: A Loan. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Think London’s just grey and boring? Rob Flowers’ 90s crime comedy pilot Thames View will change your mind

Seeking to subvert the boring cliches of city-life, the acclaimed cartoonist Rob Flowers takes us back to his East London childhood with a colourful collage of Loony-Tunes shenanigans and crime boss grannies. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Reset is a gaming magazine for the first generation that grew up taking games seriously

You may accidentally take Reset for a fashion mag or an art piece, but it’s all of those and more. It’s for the first generation that grew up taking games seriously as an art form, and it’s here to subvert IP-slop with thoughtful journalism and cutting edge design. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

4Creative cuts out visuals from the UK’s most iconic TV shows to make its new identity

From The Great British Bakeoff to Peep Show and Educating Yorkshire, 4Creative nods to the creativity behind the nation’s 24-karat TV gold in this fresh new look – with 130 logos to boot. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Gary Grimes decodes the angsty cultural references within Romain Gavras’ Yung Lean-starring epic, Storm

More Bully, less Busted: It’s Nice That’s culture columnist breaks down the film on everyone’s feeds, and how it’s already earned a place in the teenage rebellion history books. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Uncommon’s mouldy identity for Offf Barcelona is grown from biological traces of creatives

Working with a wildly unpredictable process under time restraints, creative studio Uncommon has taken inspiration from ‘culture’ itself. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Jake Machen’s charming bubblegum comics transport us back to the anime magazines of yore

These comics feel fresh and authentically retro, nodding to video games and 90s Sonic The Hedgehog picture books. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“I don’t want to just observe, I want to participate”: Ollie Babajide Tikare on immersing himself in the cultures he photographs

Ollie Babajide Tikare is a multi-hypenate in the very definition of the word: he’s a photographer, writer, music curator and DJ who touches topics from socio-political essays to fashion, but Ollie maintains that it’s quite exhausting! The artist took to April’s Nicer Tuesdays to … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Benjamin Tuttle spent years designing for a Brooklyn microcinema – it all led him to Netflix’s Beef

The typeface and graphic designer breaks down his process and historical reference points for creating the second season titles of A24’s hit show. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Samar Maakaroun’s visual identity for The Mosaic Rooms challenges reductive narratives around Arab identities

The new brand represents an entangled, messy cultural identity filled with “often fraught history” – but through clever abstractions and inspired Arabic scripts, breathes hope into political upheaval. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Albert Elm captures our world at its most absurd through a photographic autobiography

With half-buildings, alien-esque icebergs, dismembered animals and giant snow castles, Albert Elm’s newest photo project is a nomadic odyssey across the strangest sights on Earth. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Addison Copas doesn’t want “freedom” – he thrives under the limitations in his wordmarks and brand identities

This designer rebels against the artistic liberty he had in school, instead opting for a focus on technique and an allegiance to physical materials. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“Find poetry in the simple things”: The acclaimed Marina Willer on her stacked design career

Brazilian graphic designer, filmmaker, Pentagram partner and D&AD jury judge Marina Willer, who has worked on major brand identity projects for clients such as Rolls Royce, Tate and Southbank Centre, joined the Nicer Tuesdays stage in April to deliver a talk on her expansive desi … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“Take the chance on yourself”

Taking a chance on yourself can be hard when considering a leap. Shanice Mears gives much needed encouragement to go for it in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Jaša Müller’s pastel portraits of our biggest stars are personal, playful and imperfect

This photographer does whatever it takes to get to the final product; he embraces accidents, draws colour digitally and physically, rephotographs over, and over, and over... | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Hotel Retro revives graphic luggage labels from the golden age of travel

Reproduced as 330 peelable stickers, these original designs from the Letterform Archive’s collection haven’t just been republished for reference – they’re to put straight on your suitcase. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

POV: The creative industries are about to split in two

Despite the gloomy atmosphere in some corners of the creative industries, the sector is about to undergo a boom period. Whether companies fly or fall comes down to one choice, according to Ollie Scott: whether they are maximisers or replacers. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Intra on the rewarding process of recognising the art in obscure everyday life

Multi-format artist intra, who’s collaborated with the likes of Nia Archives and Nothing tech, specialises in the “discarded moments” – whereas many look at the art inside of the everyday, intra makes abstractions out of the things we don’t expect to be art. On the Nicer Tuesdays … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Anaïs Kugel’s portraits are unmistakably from the female gaze

The Paris-based photographer has made a visual world that weaves together themes of identity, intimacy and femininity. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago