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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Working with a wildly unpredictable process under time restraints, creative studio Uncommon has taken inspiration from ‘culture’ itself. | Continue reading
These comics feel fresh and authentically retro, nodding to video games and 90s Sonic The Hedgehog picture books. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Paris-based photographer has made a visual world that weaves together themes of identity, intimacy and femininity. | Continue reading
The designer and sculptor treats books as 3D tangible objects, not just vessels for text. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
The National Institute of Architecture’s folkloric floor tiling influenced the strict grid and mosaic-like logo that underpin this visual identity. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This deliberately imperfect design system is a living, breathing thing, and takes a humanist approach to the topic of climate action. | Continue reading
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
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
At May’s event in London, expect talks about animated homunculi, typography mags and photography on Togolese identity! | Continue reading