“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


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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 | 27 days 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 | 27 days 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


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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 | 1 month 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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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“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


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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


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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 | 1 month 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


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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


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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 | 1 month 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


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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 | 1 month 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 | 1 month 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


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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


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“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


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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


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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


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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


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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 | 1 month 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 | 1 month 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 | 1 month 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 | 1 month ago

Elisava’s Master’s in Graphic Design is about what design can do for others, and what you can do for design

The graduates of Elisava’s Master’s in Graphic Design epitomise the programme’s approach to practice and the institution’s perspective on education. | Continue reading


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California Dreaming: The latest issue of A Rabbit’s Foot is about the inventors and innovators of our movie-making culture

We’ve all seen films, read books and heard music about California, the centrepiece to issue 14 of A Rabbit’s Foot, but within these colourful and inventive pages, we see an alternate vision of the place where dreams are made. | Continue reading


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Liang-Hsin Huang’s comics sketch soft paths through nature

Swapping lengthy hours of painted animation for comic strip snapshots, the artist has recently turned her hand to a number of illustrated zines set in the outdoors. | Continue reading


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Oilinwater approaches branding like an investigator, to build visual systems from rigorous research

The Brussels-based design studio is taking a scientific approach to research, ideas and observation in order to build identities for cultural clients that have a sensitivity to space and context. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Good magazines copy, great magazines steal: The Fence on mining the archives to create one of the UK’s best periodicals

With its purely illustrative approach and ever-changing masthead, The Fence feels far from run of the mill, but here founder and editor Charlie Baker and designer Mathias Clottu explain why they’re not scared of embracing tradition. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Humans only! This website invites artists to animate anti-AI disclaimers for everyone to use

After being accused of using AI, artist Ori Peer wanted to set the record straight. In the process, he created an open call for artists to prove their work is strictly human-created. | Continue reading


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“Not too design-y”: Third Place Zine is a playful publication about city life that’s built for everyone

Xander Opiyo and Gala Mendoza’s collaborative publishing project is about the places that aren’t work or home, where people are finding belonging. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The Royal College of Art is offering two new courses focused on critical skills for a changing world

Experience direct guidance from renowned designer and typographer Professor Neville Brody, or get stuck into an introductory course to animation. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

“You may need to step down in order to segue”

You been in the game for over ten years but now itching to switch to the creative side. Katie Cadwell shows ways to leverage your experience and knowledge in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

The loveable line drawings of this dog hotel identity take cues from The New Yorker’s illustrations

Led by Crown Creative, this premium hotel for pooches uses a sans and serif typeface to represent two voices: the dog and it’s owner. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Gideon Tsang’s blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you’ve never seen it before

Flowers are the distorted main character in the photographer’s new series, Because We Fall, which pays tribute to grief through pictures that are more like paintings than photographs. | Continue reading


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Break out of the simulation with Isle of Any and Oscar Hudson’s new video game-inspired advert for Coinbase

This cinematic, low-polygon ad looks digital but is in fact live action, with choreographed NPC characters and hand-painted costumes. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

If Francesca Melis’ illustrations are “slightly imperfect”, she’s done her job well

Working with a plethora of clients like Hermés and Society Mag to deliver densely packed editorial illustrations, this artist’s love for the botanical and trippy shines through. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Conor Kehelly puts a silly face on just about everything in these lively animations

This animator’s work is a dizzying mix of 2D and 3D, so much so that it feels almost 4D. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Spillll is a queer culinary zine series that’s crafted with a decentralised design model

The Spillll collective sees what’s served up at the table as fertile ground for radical discussions. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Lan Truong’s pen plotter paintings are making us way less wary of art made by machines

The illustrator has been experimenting with tools outside of her usual sketchbook, tablet and computer – with fascinating results. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Untouched since the 1980s, Jordan’s Furniture gets a sleek rebrand with ergonomic icons

Jordan’s Furniture becomes just Jordan’s – and in the process, distills everything about the homeware brand down to dots and lines, making it minimal in presentation but loud in playfulness. | Continue reading


@itsnicethat.com | 1 month ago

Wedge Studio, Mindy Seu, Da’Shaunae Marisa and Ben Sanders: Get tickets for April’s Nicer Tuesdays in LA!

Nicer Tuesdays is landing in Los Angeles once again! We’re back with a spring edition and this events line-up promises to bring some fresh inspiration with talks on all things branding, design, publishing, photography and paint! | Continue reading


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