The United Nations issues an open brief to designers to help fight coronavirus

In its first open brief to the creative community, the United Nations is asking for designers to help produce concise and impactful visuals to help share life-saving information on Covid-19. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 years ago

Tokyo 2020 unveils first ever animated pictograms used in Olympics’ history

The 73 kinetic icons designed by Masaaki Hiromura and animated by Kota Iguchi each show their sport in motion, representing 22 Paralympic sports and 33 Olympic sports. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 years ago

t¥p3w0rld

Indulge in a dose of Windows XP desktop nostalgia with t¥p3w0rld, a new collaborative digital project that Dinamo says is “doing something completely different to what’s out there”. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 years ago

The Strokes’ At the Door animated video

Drawing inspiration from Heavy Metal, Watership Down and The NeverEnding Story, Mike Burakoff and Benjy Brooke’s epic film plays with nostalgia and reality. | Continue reading


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Patryk Hardziej explores a modernist approach to design in Communist Poland

CPN: Logo, Identity, History charts the pioneering visual identity and branding of Communist Poland’s only network of petrol stations. | Continue reading


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It’s Nice That on the snail art of Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland

Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland combine the banality of every day with elements of the strange and fantastical in these snail-centric joys. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 years ago

Daniel Keogh’s maximalist illustrations

The Australian-based illustrator starts each project on paper, before moving on to hundreds of layers in Photoshop for his incredibly detailed images. In his Where's Wally?-style illustrations, he encourages the viewer creates their own stories. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 years ago

Greta Grotesk is a typeface in homage to the teenage activist’s handwriting

Tal Shub is a designer based in New York who co-founded Uno, a company with a mission to eradicate single-use plastic bottles by offering a reusable alternative. Alongside the team with which he runs this venture, he has also produced an ode Greta Thunberg in the form of a typefa … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 years ago

How a feminist approach to design is the key to tackling bias in AI

_Dr Charlotte Webb is co-founder of Feminist Internet, a non-profit organisation on a mission to make the internet more equal for women and other marginalised groups through creative, critical practice. She was nominated last year by the Evening Standard as one of the most influe … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 5 years ago

A former Finnish military island is to play host to Europe’s latest biennial

The inaugural edition of the Helsinki Biennial will take place on Vallisaari in 2020. | Continue reading


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Decoding Dictatorial Statues untangles the agency of sculpted bodies

_Decoding Dictatorial Statues_ explores the visual language of statues. The expression, representation and historical context of statues have all been under scrutiny in recent debates. Though some statues mark a significant point in history, should these statues still stand in ce … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 6 years ago

Standards Manual celebrates the original emoji from late 90s Japan with new book

With their string of publications including republishing the detailed graphic standards manuals for Nasa and the New York City Transit Authority, Hamish Smyth and Jesse Reed’s mission has been to “preserve and archive design history”. Their "publishing imprint’s":https://standard … | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 6 years ago