These sculptures unravel the hidden meanings behind material belongings

Working with a range of materials, John Saint Michel’s experimental practice engages with the symbolic and emotional weight of objects. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 4 days ago

James Willan’s charming animations have a melancholic undercurrent

Combining analogue and digital techniques, this Middlesbrough-born, London-based creative embraces an enchanting interplay between medium and message. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 4 days ago

Clement Cases’ typeface Base Pixel slowly turns to “trash”

Each weight of this variable typeface degrades in resolution until its letterforms are an abstract mass of pixels. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 4 days ago

“The opportunity for invention”: Pentagram New York welcomes its first product design partner, Piotr Woronkowicz

A first for the international design agency’s New York office, Piotr’s arrival suggests not only a shift in the design industry but one in public behaviour. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 4 days ago

Athletics’ identity for GOCA references traditional Japanese script and incorporates “infinite” patterns

Centred around championing Asian creatives, GOCA’s wordmark opens up to spotlight art and artists. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 days ago

Vic Bakin is documenting Ukrainian youth in Kyiv’s de-occupied territories

Focusing his lens on queer communities and subcultures in the region, the artist’s images are a war-torn account of adolescence. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 days ago

When culture is cut, everyone suffers – not just the creative industry

Our Berlin correspondent lays bare the realities of recent funding cuts to arts and culture in Germany, and what Berliners are doing about it. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 days ago

Creativity in the Big Content age: welcome to Stocksy’s Curation Paradox

Available to download now, the premium stock creative media platform’s latest report breaks down how creatives and clients are losing out due to the homogeneity of curated imagery we consume. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 6 days ago

Sander Coers uses photography, ceramics and AI to explore familial history and loss

A shocking photograph of the artist’s grandfather in a newspaper triggered a deeply personal journey to unearth hidden family histories | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 6 days ago

Days old bread built Super Studio’s new brand identity for Rose Bakery

With a potato print-like technique and a logo inspired by lines scored into fresh dough, this identity pays homage to all the artisanal techniques of a traditional small town bakery. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 6 days ago

Take a seat! This online magazine is dedicated to the wackiest chairs out there

Challenging the chair’s conventional form, Chair of Virtue features furniture from emerging and established designers that sits at the intersection of art and design. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 6 days ago

“It doesn’t diminish its value”

Not every great idea makes the final cut... but does that mean it has to disappear? Katie Cadwell shows you how to repurpose rejected work and fuel your creative growth, in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Don’t get between Bill Rebholz and his love of signs

The LA-based artist finds his greatest inspiration across his state’s local cityscapes, drawn to janky, busted-up signage and never pretty or pristine plaques. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Kaishui Yikai Lui’s tender series is a window into self-discovery and belonging at art school abroad

The photographer’s portraits of Chinese international students in London uncovers the complexities of finding a new place to call home. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

A Friend of Mine’s brand for Suupaa is a masterclass in eclectic yet restrained typography

A creative cavalcade of type, tactility, illustration and interiors, the brand’s whimsical yet temperate identity shows the impact of restraint. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 7 days ago

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs

Designers are burnt out, disillusioned, and constantly joking about quitting – but underneath the memes lies a deeper reckoning. Our US editor-at-large explores how irony became the industry’s dominant tone, and what it might mean to care again. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 10 days ago

What does British craft mean today? New Balance and Hip explore

New Balance’s latest Made in UK campaign explores British craft through the lens of those who make it happen. With a poem by John Joseph Holt at its core, the project brings together the voices, landscapes, and skilled hands behind the brand’s Flimby-made footwear. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 10 days ago

Algae or underwear? Mandy Barker documents the fast fashion waste polluting our seas

Collecting 200 fabric samples of clothing across several thousand miles of coastline, the artist has created a typology that traces the tangible effects of the world’s most environmentally damaging industry. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 11 days ago

Font Spectrum is making futuristic typefaces that shift to make new forms

At this Amsterdam-based foundry, things go from readable weights to “decorative extremes” with imaginative methods of integrating motion. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 11 days ago

The illustrator and knitter Annie Hall sees wool as the perfect tool for drawing

With hundreds of jumpers under her metaphorical belt (including 45 different cat designs) Annie embraces knitwear as her illustrative medium of choice. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 11 days ago

How Warby Parker turned its flagship SoHo store into a living gallery

With custom installations by the likes of Geoff McFetridge and Andy Rementer, and a renewed creative vision, the eyewear and lifestyle brand aims to prove shopping can be a fun and creatively enriching experience. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 11 days ago

A new book documents over two decades of Rocket Recordings’ independent album artwork

Out of the Void curates the entire back catalogue of the record label’s releases. The limited edition book is a time capsule of a fascinating era for independent artists. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 11 days ago

POV: You’re a pedigree dog – Jack Kenyon captures Crufts on a wide fish eye lens

From this angle, the furry competitors in the world’s largest dog show appear all the more adorable and comical. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 12 days ago

Massoud Hayoun’s political paintings are seeped in symbolism and shades of blue

The painter’s surreal portraits merge past and present figures – the familiar and fantasy – to connect stories of “exile, love and resistance”. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 12 days ago

One philosophy underpins designer Ji Park’s eclectic practice – “fuck around and find out”

With a practice that challenges traditional definitions of disciplines, the creative’s approach is ever-informed by experimentation, thought and play. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

Buro Blits is tackling branding with a fun and fearless approach

For independent graphic designer Phebe Van der Meulen, self expression and creative freedom are at the heart of having a practice that feels like “a playground”. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

Wing Walkers: The daredevil performers that dance in the sky

Casey Steffens captures the athleticism, friendship and community behind the unique sport of performing stunts on a flying plane. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

I’m obsessed!: Why following fixations makes our creative work better

As creatives, when something grabs our attention, it has the potential to really take hold. Our obsessions might temporarily tilt us off balance between work and life, but they can take us to unexpected places creatively. So how do we know if we should follow them? | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

Koto on cooking up recipes for the future of branding

For our final talk of March’s Nicer Tuesdays Sam Howard and Dylan Young of Koto London took us behind the scenes of Seasoned; an initiative the studio started cooking up in 2023 to help up and coming creatives get into the industry. The pair walked us through the design process f … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 13 days ago

Studio Gruhl dives back into Berlin’s 1990s techno scene in an identity for Spellbound

For the newly founded female-led label, the studio developed a raw and adaptable design system, reminiscent of the heyday of techno. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

Georgia Semple’s contorted canvases mirror “the tension between perception and reality”

The London-based painter’s earthy palettes swirl through surreal scenes that merge family archives and fiction to create new and imagined realities. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

“An open door to our inner worlds”: Revue Maison is the magazine dedicated to interpretations of home

The biannual magazine is exploring the “universal yet deeply intimate” subject of the home through a range of inventive personal submissions. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

“You’re not doomed”

Loud noises, crowded commutes and endless bustle. Thinking of leaving the capital? Alex Bec explores how to keep your career on track when moving beyond London in this week's on Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 14 days ago

“In a time when it’s harder than ever to make a living from art, art gets made anyway”: The White Pube on their debut book

Co-founder of The White Pube Zarina Muhammad took to the Nicer Tuesdays stage to outline the narrative behind the duo’s debut book Poor Artists – a story about making art under capitalism. The writer and art critic gave us an insight into the early days of the The White Pube, and … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 16 days ago

Following the flow state: Stella Murphy on creativity that speaks to the soul

The illustrator and cartoonist took the Nicer Tuesdays audience through the development of her vibrant psychedelic style. From her early beginnings in graphic design and recent editorial briefs for the likes of The New York Times, to how she’s managed to develop a practice of “na … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 17 days ago

Mañana Mañana from photographer Tessa Ruger asks us to reconsider our relationship with time

The Dutch visual artist explores pace and place in her documentation of the autonomous Spanish community, Andalusia. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 18 days ago

Lose yourself in the cosmic world of 11:11 Collective’s Risograph animations

A hypnotising hybrid of imperfect prints and digital code – are these analogue animations the dream clubbing visuals? | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 18 days ago

At Stephen Barrett Studio, every project begins with typography

Still channelling the magic of mid-2000s Central Saint Martins, the studio’s founder champions the responsibility designers have in the act of making. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 18 days ago

Will Norman on crossing the world of grime with model railways for Jme

At March’s Nicer Tuesdays, the filmmaker and director talked us through the process behind his video for Jme’s track TMNT, which saw a miniature version of the grime artist take over a tiny model train village replica of London. Walking us though some of the city’s iconic grime h … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 18 days ago

“The bittersweet experience of revisiting a place that once felt like home”: Mon Jajaja illustrates London

Drawing out small details in the everyday, the illustrator shares a view of the city up close, in amongst all the entanglements of a nostalgic but imperfect trip. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 19 days ago

Indulge in the dreamy world of a chocolate factory in the Lithuanian woodlands

Some Films’ campaign for Chocolate Naive feels like a memory shaped by the factory’s woodlands and the family that lives there. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 19 days ago

POV: The physical design studio is waning. Could a residency model replace it?

Just recently, the major independent design studio Two Times Elliott closed the doors of its permanent studio space. Founder James Horwitz reflects on what’s been lost – but, more importantly, what could be gained from a more fluid working model. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 19 days ago

A love letter to the lost tradition of queer matchbooks

Darian Newman’s new book compiles a collection of 80 matchbooks – once a pocketable souvenir, now an artefact of the headier days of the gay clubbing scene. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 19 days ago

Shelby De Fazio’s experimental designs balance chaos with refinement

The designer’s retro-style portfolio celebrates a tactile visual engagement with the world of sound. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago

Time to lay the table: These animated still lifes are a satisfying sight

Spoons, bowls, candles and cups all fall into place in Anjali Kamat’s playful analogue scenes. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago

Vrints-Kolsteren’s design practice is ever-evolving

The Antwerp-based studio has moved beyond graphic design, embracing storytelling, brand strategy, and multi-sensory creative experiences. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago

The Hollywood Sign: a problematic symbol of fantasy and exclusion

Our LA correspondent digs up the history of those monumental letters, and why the site has been a platform for political statements and pranks alike. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago

What do architecture school, giant bouncy castles, and Post Malone have in common? PlayLab.

On the studio’s 20th birthday, we talk to founders Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeff Franklin about trust, inflatables, and the power of staying playful. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 20 days ago