27 year old photographer Roberta Sant’Anna was born and raised in Brazil’s far south. “I was actually born in Porto Alegre, but I grew up in a very small city called Osório,” she tells us. “It’s one of the most windy cities in the country. We spent ten years there before going back to the big city. My childhood was surrounded by nature and we were free to explore our surroundings. The kind of freedom we had there definitely played a big role in the kind of people we became. I think the way I see the world is influenced by the memories I have. My deepest memories, the most image-filled ones, definitely come from there.”

Oval Space was packed to the rafters for a stellar Nicer Tuesdays this month, featuring four creatives that hardly need an introduction. A Practice for Everyday Life co-founders Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas took us through its serendipitous process behind the Tate Britain David Hockney exhibition book; Jon Burgerman caused mass giggling with his doodle stories; Anthony Burrill delivered some powerful statements for creative motivation; and Nelly Ben Hayoun blew the audience away with her energy and plans for reforming education. Here’s a few things we took away from this awesome evening.
h3. Yorkshire is a place of inspiration

Ben Grandgenett grew up in Wahoo, Nebraska, a small rural town in the Midwest.  Over 1,000 miles New York, Wahoo never received The New York Times Magazine, the publication Ben now works at as a designer. 

Strasbourg-based illustrator Amina Bouajila creates colourful, contained illustrations, which she mostly prints by hand in silkscreen. As well as editorial commissions for publications like French mags Kiblind and Retard, Amina also self-publishes her projects, fanzines and collaborations with independent publisher Matière Grasse Éditions.

Artist Rufus Newell creates illustrations that use curves and scribbles to create a creative chronicle. A Leeds School of Art graduate, studio holder at Assembly House and a member of Precious art collective, Rufus is an artist on the cusp of illustrational greatness.

“My first introduction to graphic design was through internet forums for the video games I played when I was younger,” says Amsterdam-based designer Sepus Noordmans. “I started making small signatures for other users that would be displayed underneath their posts on the forum. These ‘designs’ were very simple, often about their favourite video game, other requested subjects or just typography.”