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WEBFinding your Happy Place: How play and experimentation unlock inner calm. To mark the launch of Inner Piece, a brand-new partnership between It’s Nice That and the LEGO® Group, we delve into the ways that creativity and wellbeing can be set free by rolling your sleeves up and getting hands-on with a playful hobby or activity. Brand Partnership.
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WEBIt's Nice That Newsletters. Fancy a bit of It's Nice That in your inbox? Sign up to our newsletters and we'll keep you in the loop with everything good going on in the creative world. From comics to editorial spots, hand-drawn to digital, 2D to 3D, here we showcase fantastic illustrators and their inspiring work...
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WEBAug 15, 2024 · It's Nice That Newsletters. Fancy a bit of It's Nice That in your inbox? Sign up to our newsletters and we'll keep you in the loop with everything good going on in the creative world. It's Nice That's digital archive spans the projects and people leading the way in digital design, technology, and creative coding...
Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated …
WEBJan 31, 2024 · All oddities that share the same kind of infamous hate as Comic Sans.”. Thomas Steeles. The year was 1994 and Vincent Connare, a typographical engineer at the Microsoft Corporation, was reviewing a trial version of the soon-to-be-released program, Microsoft Bob. The programme was intended to be …
“No grid, no rules”: How the Spotify design team created the …
WEBNov 30, 2023 · This was an intentional move by the design team, and it was born out of a desire to reflect a certain atmosphere in 2023. “There’s something about this year that felt especially chaotic in terms of how people consumed culture,” says Rasmus Wängelin, global head of brand design at Spotify, who describes his team’s job as being “to make Spotify look as good as possible” outside of ...
Poupay on transitioning from street photography to snapping the …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · Nicer Tuesdays. Subscribe. Poupay began her career catching strange and wonderful moments on the streets of New York. Now, she’s the go-to photographer for some of the biggest celebrity events in the world, from the Oscars, to the Met Gala, to the Tony Awards. At June’s Nicer Tuesdays in New York, she shared just how she made such a …
Animation - It's Nice That
WEBAug 27, 2024 · It's Nice That Newsletters. Fancy a bit of It's Nice That in your inbox? Sign up to our newsletters and we'll keep you in the loop with everything good going on in the creative world. From stop-motion to claymation and all techniques in between, explore our archive of animation projects...
Michael Craig-Martin: a cool, clean and colourful riot of everyday …
WEBNov 25, 2015 · Over the last 30 years Michael Craig-Martin has repurposed the most quotidian of objects for his cool, decidedly impersonal brand of art. Whether it’s his monochrome wall drawings from the 1980s, or the vibrant, garish acrylic works that followed in the mid-1990s, the Dublin-born artist has always looked to the humdrum products of material culture for inspiration.
Power and originality: the iconic print designs of Lucienne Day
WEBJan 5, 2017 · One of her most famous textiles, Calyx, was originally shown at the Festival of Britain in 1951, and is considered her breakthrough design. Then an emerging star in textiles, Lucienne collaborated with Heal’s to create Calyx, a stylised floral design mixing muted and acid colours, that represented a radical new aesthetic in pattern design.
POV: Is the ‘brand namer’ the new graphic designer?
WEBSep 4, 2024 · In May, word spread that an “AI-infused platform” would accept a flat fee of $5,000 in return for 20 brand names, delivered to you in five days. Monika – that’s the name of the platform; unclear whether the bot helped name itself – guarantees 20 trademark-ready names of high creative calibre. “It’s one of the hardest parts of the ...