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With image-based media sinking a little bit further down the AI-slop slope every day, we find ourselves yearning for the analogue simplicity of our childhood drawings. Blow pens, which allows for rand

Based between LA and Montreal, Wedge Studio joined Nicer Tuesdays in one of its home cities to present its “seemingly unsexy” projects – such as designing the visual identities for dental floss, beans

French art director and illustrator Anaïs Odoux’s practice is entirely analogue. The artist creates collages by hand with just two tools: coloured pencils and paper. Upon a first look at Anaïs’ works

Every Monday, Pitchfork releases its recurring playlist: Selects – a staff-curated list of the best new tracks from the previous week for music lovers to dig into, and it’s in-house senior designer Ch

A-Corps promise to prioritise IP protection and creative mission over corporate profit – but they’re not a quick fix for a creative industry in turmoil.

The cult favourite Swiss brand is built on inventive ideas and a healthy dose of Dada-esque humour. To find out more about why its marketing has never missed,

Work from home or hybrid setups have become the norm, especially since the pandemic. So, when the experience of getting started IRL has been diminished, how do

How do you visually represent something that’s been around for over seven centuries? Bob Design teamed up with the young creatives of Croydon School of Art to

The weekend guide you didn’t know you needed – have a peek at what Rene Matić is getting up to and what you could be too!

Spanning the hidden Polish design pioneers of modern history, to the next generation of visual innovators, we report back from our visit to this expansive even

After almost a decade returning to Venezuela, the Silvana’s long-term series is now published as a book – a home for a beautiful project that’s helped the phot

Cyberfeminism Index creator, designer, researcher and educator Mindy Seu joined us on the Nicer Tuesdays stage in Los Angeles to introduce us to A Sexual History of the Internet, a compendium-cum-perf

Artist and designer Ben Sanders joined us on the Nicer Tuesdays stage in Los Angeles to talk about his absurdist airbrush paintings with frames made out of salt, pool noodles and art objects of enlarg

After a late-in-life autism diagnosis, the photographer is using image making to map his sensory experiences through the use of “distortion, blur and light”.

Built from delicate tones, typography and ornamentation, this visual system swaps the clinical world of beauty for something more enchanting and whimsical.

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Photographer and filmmaker Da’Shaunae Marisa took the Nicer Tuesdays stage in Los Angeles in the form of a flower to take us through her creative journey, from an early interest in photography to a st

When they reach a certain level of stardom it’s commonplace for Main Pop Girls to commission a cover painted by a fine artist. Here, It’s Nice That’s culture c

By drawing imagined textiles, these artworks come so close to reality they appear constructed from threads rather than lines on a page.

In these screenshot-realistic paintings, the artist depicts the aesthetics of late-2000s video games – except not quite the way we remember them.

Tiquismiquis Club’s founders, Roberto Espartero and Juan Martín, explain the experimentation and coordination required to design Odda’s 29th issue.

When White Blankets is a collaboration between the artist, her grandfather and her father: “a story told across three generations, reflecting on memory, loss,

Cord: Album ‘91 (Copyright © Cord) INT: When did travel start seeping in as a key theme?PG: Travel was always a very important part of building Cord because wherever Neha and I travelled, for those fe

Creative work is – rightly or wrongly – a romanticised field. The artist, the work, passion, expression. There’s plenty to fall for. But equally, that can be m

The New York Times Book Review art director speaks about reading every manuscript he designs for, embracing bad ideas, and why collage remains one of his go-to

Ibeyi are the coolest twin sister music duo filling everyone’s ears with an etherial fusion of alternative R&B sounds and Afro-Cuban jazz. The double act, Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, have release

Founded in London in 2004 by Simon Mottram, Rapha has been a cornerstone of the cycling landscape over the past 20 years and defined much of the culture that surrounds it. “Rapha changed the way peopl

The Madrid-based graphic designer David Heofs sits at an interesting creative crossroads, straddling both graphic design and production. In 2010, he founded Bandiz, a creative studio dedicated to cont

Moldovan-born visual artist and illustrator Ana Terral understands your pain. Chapped lips, blisters on the back of heels, bite marks, pin-pricks, sun-burns (and those annoying tan lines). Using alcoh

If you’ve been to Bristol you’ll know that there is a piece of history hiding in the historic floating harbour – Britain’s very first great ocean faring steam ship. Since its triumphant return to Bris

Seth Akkerman and Talia Cotton explore the disruption of design and technology, asking how co-creation has dissolved disciplines, what sandboxes do for creativ

The illustrator has had quite a few run-ins with vultures in the creative industry, but he’s had enough. After an altercation with lousy quasi-capitalists, he

The renowned album art auction in support of War Child UK is back with an extraordinary line-up of world-renowned artists, including artworks for vinyl by Anth

Welcome to It’s Nice That’s second In Depth edition – our editorial series going beneath the surface of topics at the top of the creative agenda. The Fandom EditionNobody cares more than a fan. Cultiv

You’re generally advised not to zigzag and move around a lot in the creative industry, but is it really that bad? In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums, Ka

This independent documentary from Back Market, directed by Zack Grant, dives into the mystery of novelty Garfield landline phones appearing on the French coast and asks what it says about our consumer

It’s so hard to recreate a time that doesn’t exist anymore, but everything about this new photo-book is surprisingly effective. From its warm hues and kitschy

“Watching and playing football makes me feel alive in a way that nothing else does,” Freddie Fraser Forsyth, director of creative studio and publisher Topsafe tells It’s Nice That. It’s safe to say he

There’s been a lot to catch up on since we last spoke to Nguyen Gobber, the collaborative practice between ​​Hoang Nguyen and David Gobber. Not only has their graphic design practice evolved into a fu

“There is probably a digital way to recreate many of these textures, but having the pieces exist physically and have a life beyond the screen makes the work feel more real to me,” says Mumbai-based an

In an excerpt from Taschen’s The Elements of Brand Design, Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller chart the genesis and evolution of modern branding and visual ident

Paris-based comic book author Louise Laborie’s illustrated worlds ooze with quiet sadness. The creator of the graphic novels Rock‘n’roll Suicide and Morgane Fox is an expert in adapting a familiar, co

This speculative fiction online magazine is all about “soilpunk”, the aesthetics of resistance on planet Earth. The website takes unique, imaginative stories a

When writer, filmmaker and documentarian Elizabeth McCafferty met Trevor Cunningham, she knew she was meeting one of the most interesting people she had ever met – and that’s saying a lot. In Elizabet

Threads has been seen as an extension of Instagram since it launched. As the site has organically grown, however, it sought a more individual identity. This is where London-based design agency Studio

If you’re finding the impacts of AI and the relentless demands of algorithms are draining your team’s creative ambitions, you’re not alone. In this week’s Crea

If you’ve ever queued up at a KFC, or walked past one of its branches, or just switched on your TV and seen one of its ads, you’ll know the visual language by heart – even if you’ve never consciously

Have you ever heard of an open-source restaurant? No? Well, that’s because this is the first one. BFF, which stands for Bao Fast Foods – or Best Friends Forever, take your pick – is an entirely new co

An army of over two dozen craftspeople, led by production designer Liam Moore, worked for a month on a gargantuan undertaking that bridged the worlds of practi

We caught up with artist and designer Yinka Ilori MBE as his colourful new solo show Joy Through Resistance opens at Cristea Roberts Gallery in his home city, London. A display of the artist’s most pe