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As Channel 4’s in-house creative agency, 4Creative plays a pretty big part in launching some of the UKs most iconic shows from Bake Off to Educating Yorkshire. The team are also the creative mastermin

The secondary school setting has long been seen as a fertile ground for visionaries of the music video format. Perhaps it’s because schools are a natural hotbed of teenage angst, or that the teacher/s

What’s more cultural than mould? Offf Barcelona has recently partnered with Uncommon Creative Studio to create the campaign for the 2026 festival, bringing together some of design’s most influential p

These comics feel fresh and authentically retro, nodding to video games and 90s Sonic The Hedgehog picture books.

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 mai

The typeface and graphic designer breaks down his process and historical reference points for creating the second season titles of A24’s hit show.

The new brand represents an entangled, messy cultural identity filled with “often fraught history” – but through clever abstractions and inspired Arabic script

With half-buildings, alien-esque icebergs, dismembered animals and giant snow castles, Albert Elm’s newest photo project is a nomadic odyssey across the strang

This designer rebels against the artistic liberty he had in school, instead opting for a focus on technique and an allegiance to physical materials.

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,

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 Conu

Reproduced as 330 peelable stickers, these original designs from the Letterform Archive’s collection haven’t just been republished for reference – they’re to p

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 dow

This photographer does whatever it takes to get to the final product; he embraces accidents, draws colour digitally and physically, rephotographs over, and ove

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

The designer and sculptor treats books as 3D tangible objects, not just vessels for text.

French photographer and filmmaker Anaïs Kugel was deeply influenced by cinema growing up. “As a child, I was fascinated by The City of Lost Children by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and as a teena

The designer and sculptor treats books as 3D tangible objects, not just vessels for text.

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 creati

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 t

Illustrator and author Charlotte Winkler’s work sits somewhere between painting, drawing, writing and comic making. The artist often explores the connection between critical theory and visual storytel

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 an

In Jakarta-based illustrator and product designer Redi Adi Pratama’s work, the viewer is immediately hit with a hammer of punk spirit. In each illustration, which are created in Photoshop using a Waco

Praktika is an architecture and branding studio based in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania led by Rokas Sutkaitis and Julius Seniūnas. Collaborating since 2022, the pair’s joint practice brings together R

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 e

Ever wondered what it would be like if you could put stickers all over your eyes? Of course you haven’t, but Tokyo-based artist Yunbomu has gone ahead and shown you what that looks like anyways. In th

A pretty revolutionary collaboration occurred between type foundry Dinamo and designer Elias Hanzer in 2021. ABC Arizona was the first typeface to merge multiple genres into a single unified font fami

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

Looking at London-based graphic designer Eloise Aitken’s work, we’re reminded of all the fun and freedom of self-publishing – of cutting, pasting, scanning, reprinting and having complete agency over

Illustrator Daniele Castellano’s vivid drawings are many things: spooky, hyper detailed, fantastical and never boring. With imagery based on the mysteries of memory, psychology and “bodily sensations”

2026 marks ten years of Blaze Type, the renowned, celebrated foundry founded by Matthieu Salvaggio in 2016. From fairly humble beginnings, having launched with three typefaces, the journey of Blaze Ty

Casi (Climate Action Service International) is a climate non-profit driving sustainable practices in the visual arts. Unlike a lot of the impenetrable data-driven narratives surrounding the state of o

New York-based photographer Ben Rayner’s work may live in between documentary and advertising, but in Mud, Sweat & Tears – a 58-page zine documenting the 2025 Nike Cross Nationals (NXN), America’s pre

Welcome to It’s Nice That’s first In Depth edition – a new editorial series, going beneath the surface of the topics at the top of the creative agenda.Through these themed editions, we will explore su

Tickets are now available for Nicer Tuesdays London, on 5 May at EartH Hackney, featuring another selection of brilliant creatives curated just for you!We’ll be welcoming artist Murugiah, whose debut

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 creat

Creative Career Conundrums is a weekly advice column from If You Could Jobs. Each week their selected panel of professionals from the creative industry answers your burning career questions to help yo

Bait is the newest project from one of Britain’s favourite actors Riz Ahmed, whose new show has been called “petty, narcissistic… and excellent” by The Guardian. The autofictional premise follows an a

Miggie Bacungan is part of It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch 2025 – a curated list of next generation creative talent from across the globe. Discover all 65 creatives in our directory, here. Miggie Bacun

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 s

This opinion piece was first published in The Tiny Tourist Report from It's Nice That's Insights team. Against a backdrop of overtourism, the report explores how we might downsize our approach to trav

Often in graphic design, whether consciously or not, we learn to make things match, to keep things uniform enough to look like they all come from a cohesive whole. But Nao Lee (a.k.a undefinedtomato)

Coming out of high school, I decided to pursue my BFA degree in Digital Design at the University of Colorado Denver, against the expectations of my family to major in a more lucrative STEM subject. I

Readymag’s new editorial collects candid stories from Erik Kessels, Harriet Richardson, Raissa Pardini, Zipeng Zhu and more, reflecting on their wiggly career

With visuals injected with Kubrick’s meticulous symmetry and Irving Penn’s essentialist approach to still life, the studio’s minimalist identity pulls on nosta

In West Midlands-based photographer Robert Barrett’s work, you’re at the gig of a lifetime. It doesn’t matter who it is, whether it’s the chillaxed Mac DeMarco, the riotousness of Turnstile or Confide

Dave Bowers hails from Sacramento, California. He used to draw a lot, but today his practice has some limitations: his drawings are now fitted around the routines of his new daughter. When she naps, h

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

While researching this column, I came across The Matchbook Book on It’s Nice That, a project that documents the visual legacy of matchbox labels in the UK - one of many such initiatives around the wor

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 th