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 | 3 days 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 | 3 days 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 | 3 days 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 | 3 days 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 | 4 days 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 | 4 days 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 | 4 days 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 | 4 days 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 | 4 days 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 | 5 days 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 | 5 days 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 | 6 days 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 | 6 days 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 | 6 days 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 | 10 days 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 | 10 days 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 | 10 days 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 | 10 days 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 | 11 days 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 | 11 days 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 | 11 days 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 | 11 days 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 | 11 days 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 | 12 days 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 | 12 days 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 | 12 days 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 | 12 days 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 | 12 days 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 | 16 days 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 | 17 days ago

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 | 17 days 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


@itsnicethat.com | 18 days ago

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 | 18 days 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 | 18 days 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 | 18 days 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


@itsnicethat.com | 19 days ago

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 | 19 days 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 | 20 days 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 | 20 days 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 | 20 days 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 | 23 days 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 | 24 days 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 | 24 days 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 | 25 days 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 | 25 days 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 | 25 days 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 | 26 days 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 | 27 days ago