Discover the unconventional design details hidden between the pages of Neat Rodanant’s publications

The designer and sculptor treats books as 3D tangible objects, not just vessels for text. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Air’s manifesto makes one thing clear: AI will never replace human creativity

With a new report, a full-page handwritten letter in The New York Times and time-saving product Canvas, Air is planting the flag: that “AI won’t replace creative work.” | Continue reading


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This little book is a design archive of the most delicate memento – the Spanish napkin

For the past ten years Felipe Hernández Duràn has been collecting napkins from bars and tables across Spain. His new book shows how meals are memorialised in these small graphic moments. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

London’s Ours! Celebrating the posters, billboards and publicity stunts that put two fingers up to Thatcherism

A book from Four Corners reflects on the creative legacy of The Greater London Council, a radical political body that revolutionised the intersection of art and politics. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“I love love”: Charlotte Winkler’s comics are all about care, connection and belonging

The soft smudges and spiky lines of the artist’s illustrated worlds carve out a space for us to grasp at larger ideas about living and sharing. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The grid system in Praktika’s new architecture identity takes inspiration from Lithuanian floor tiles

The National Institute of Architecture’s folkloric floor tiling influenced the strict grid and mosaic-like logo that underpin this visual identity. | Continue reading


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Reda Adi Pratama’s illustrations are punky, imperfect visions of a fantastical future

This illustrator’s art works look like they’re from a fanzine in an alternate reality for a nightclub filled with sound system androids and freaky figures. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“Junior talent will always be necessary in business”

It feels like there’s a greater need than ever to future-proof your career. Alex Bec assures this final-year product designer that experimentation is the key especially in your early days in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Yee Hawr: horsegiirL is the new face of Dinamo’s half sans half serif experiment in type design

The foundry’s first OOH print campaign is a hay fever dream that stretches across streetside billboards and fold out posters – it even includes some variable font karaoke. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Welcome to artist Yunbomu’s sticker-bombed dream worlds, complete with strange symbols and eye floaters

This artist’s inventive and intriguing collages merge the rawness of photography with the digital sheen of artificial paint and sticker-esque overlays, capturing the unseen between awake and asleep. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Kelli Anderson, Parallel Press, Noble Signs and Angela Lian: Tickets now available for June’s Nicer Tuesdays in New York!

Join us for our second Nicer Tuesdays event of the year in New York, where you can catch brilliant talks on publication design, paper engineering, Tiktok dances, video collage and the age-old craft of sign painting. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The magic of self-publishing and lo-fi production comes alive in Eloise Aitken’s printed matter

Using a cut-and-paste approach to image and type, the designer is inspired by radical print design and the early days of the Xerox. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Daniele Castellano’s vivid drawings are the stuff that dreams (and nightmares) are made of

This illustrator borrows from the tried-and-true symbology of fantasy, but imbues subjects such as dragons and Tim Burton-esque creatures with detailed penmanship and sensitivity. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Blaze Type’s 10th birthday celebration kicks off with new website design

Celebrating ten years in type design, Blaze Type’s founder Matthieu Salvaggio looks back on the biggest lessons he’s learned and why audience experience is everything. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Templo’s brand identity for climate non-profit Casi draws on the pragmatic mark making of hieroglyphics

This deliberately imperfect design system is a living, breathing thing, and takes a humanist approach to the topic of climate action. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Ben Rayner’s Mud, Sweat & Tears is a photographic tribute to long distance running

400 teenage athletes meet at one of the largest cross country events in America – and this photographer caught every moment of the pain, pleasure and glory of pushing the limits of the body. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Introducing It’s Nice That In Depth: The Everyday Edition

For our first In Depth edition, we explore the techniques and rituals you can use to find great ideas within mundanity and routine. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Murugiah, Type01, Delali Ayivi, Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson: Tickets now available for May’s Nicer Tuesdays!

At May’s event in London, expect talks about animated homunculi, typography mags and photography on Togolese identity! | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“You don’t have to be the loudest person in the room”

You consider yourself the quiet impact type but now there’s feedback on your personality. Katie Cadwell shows how introverts can take up space in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Hiding in plain sight: how do creatives find inspiration in everyday life?

What if your next great ideas aren’t waiting somewhere new, but are already sitting in your junk drawer, your kitchen, or your commute? We speak to three creatives across disciplines about how they train themselves to look again and find beauty in the ordinary. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Miggie Bacungan’s graphic design challenges the artificial flavouring of pop culture imagery

Working within organised chaos, this multidisciplinary designer builds dense, street market-inspired worlds rooted in everyday visual culture. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Riz Ahmed’s new show Bait has a spy-spoof title sequence masterminded by Pentagram partners

Designed by Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell, the intro riffs on James Bond iconography while threading in nods to British and Pakistani culture. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

A classic John Lennon and Yoko Ono track gets a mesmerising music video made from never-before-seen home movies (exclusive)

Super 8 film grain and rare glimpses of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on holiday in Greece are unearthed for this music video created for an app designed to allow people to meditate to music (sounds like something John would approve of!) | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

The algorithm erodes the travel recommendation: what comes after?

On TikTok tourism, the slow striking out of local culture, and what trusted curation looks like now. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Nao Lee’s posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

To craft her noisy compositions, the designer is drawn to everything that is at odds with playing by the rules. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Graphic design schools are teaching tech, but are they teaching taste?

Graphic design courses have become trade schools – they should be so much more. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Meet Bon Elliot: the family-run, slow-crafted skincare label from Little Troop

With visuals injected with Kubrick’s meticulous symmetry and Irving Penn’s essentialist approach to still life, the studio’s minimalist identity pulls on nostalgic beauty imagery to bring a new model for skin health into the beauty space. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Jam out the post-gig blues with Robert Barrett’s sweat-soaked gig photography

Through a lens that incorporates lomography, gig documentary and attention to stage details, this photographer transports you right into the roundhouse kicks of the mosh pit. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Doubt is normal, detours are expected: Unlearned shares the personal career reflections of top creatives

Readymag’s new editorial collects candid stories from Erik Kessels, Harriet Richardson, Raissa Pardini, Zipeng Zhu and more, reflecting on their wiggly career journeys and what they had to unlearn after design school. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

“Nothing is new” to Dave Bowers, so he illustrates the familiar in his own style

These whimsical drawings range from plants turned into blobjects or tasteful collages where real life interacts with a cartoon joy. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

The Pet Shop Boys book Volume is a visual feast, exploring every inch of the icons’ creative legacy

The synth-pop duo synonymous with the 80s is celebrated thoroughly in this retrospective on their dazzling career, digging deep into every music video, record sleeve, legendary outfit and everything in between. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives

Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

“It seems to be something we can’t avoid”

It can be already tough being a junior creative and now you’re also contending with AI! Shanice Mears gives a much needed pep talk to those starting out, in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Every meal is a celebration in Maggie Cowles’ first picture book, Table!

An artist book for adults and a culinary hide-and-seek adventure for kids, the illustrator’s debut publication is a feast for the eyes. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

This collaged architect’s identity from Alexis Mark drew from departure boards and timetables

Layered and utilitarian, the approach to this visual system embodies Cobe’s sustainable, no need to start from scratch approach. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Lizzy Stewart’s The Wreck tells a messy love story like only an illustrator could

This genre-defying illustrated novel fuses comic panels, paintings and prose to create a “treat” for the reader. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Step inside Linda Merad’s whimsical and poetic illustrated universe for Hermès

Hats on legs and shoes having a smooch, the illustrator talks us through a whirlwind of recent commissions for the French fashion house. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

A new leaf: an exclusive look inside The New York Times Magazine redesign

Elizabeth Goodspeed speaks with creative director Gail Bichler about magazine’s first redesign in nearly a decade, and how the publication is adapting to a transformed media landscape. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Blurr Bureau gives us a lesson in how to brand something that’s been around forever: Apples

This colourful new brand identity for state farm fruit is packed with New York Pride. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

This unique photobook is an unexpected trip through Mexico City’s witchcraft markets and magical soaps

A visual archive of jabones esotéricos, (magic soaps) this publication bathes you in a world of liquid illustrations and saturated packaging designs. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

“Your current set-up may not be aligning with where you want to be”

You’ve just started working but somehow lost your hunger for making art along the way. Kat Wong guides this recent graduate on coaxing their creativity back in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Can a Tiny Tourist mindset rethink big travel? A new report from Insights

Badly behaved visitors, high-volume rental practices and algorithm-induced overtourism – in a landscape under strain, we make the case for downsizing how we travel and how it is marketed. We call it the Tiny Tourist approach. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

The joy and power of Risograph: Risotto showcases 400 printed postcards from artists across the globe

Print and design studio Risotto is marking 100 months of artist postcards, all printed by hand and posted worldwide, with an exhibition that puts the beauty and breadth of Risograph on show. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Sports mania meets small island life on Puerto Rican artist Joshua Nazario’s canvas

The self-taught painter and sculptor is depicting figures and jerseys from basketball to boxing with found local materials. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

The metallic graphics of Jump Jirakaweekul are rooted in the ancient but feel sharp and current

This designer’s work is infinity symbols of barbed wires, spirals of horned tails and witchy typefaces that sprawl across pages like codes from an ancient realm – but it’s his work’s flashy, modern textures that connects it to the present. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design writing needs designers writing

Without designers writing about their own work, design is easy to misunderstand. Writing helps designers work through what they think – and makes that thinking visible to others. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

“What if everyone started making out?” Andrea Marti’s horny photo series tackles Gen Z’s lack of intimacy head on

Everyone is Beautiful and No one is Horny, is the result of a sad realisation – if you want images of closeness and desire amongst young people today, they might have to be set up. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago

Bravas Graphix are the rave connoisseurs behind some of Brussels’ most explosive posters

Remixing, cutting, pasting, scanning and borrowing – this Brussels-based design duo love nothing more than crafting and bootlegging. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 2 months ago