It's time for your weekly round-up of art and design tidbits, the Weekender

Date
6 February 2015

A lot can happen in a week. Riri and Kanye can get together with Paul McCartney to make music, a man dressed as a shark can become a firm feature in hearts across the world, a man can claim intimate relations with a dolphin, etc. and we feel it’s our duty to condense all of this down into a wholesome chunk digestible for you dear reader. So we have. Here it is. Dive in!

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Studio Audience: Illustration by Guy Field

– It’s bloody back! Studio Audience has had a makeover. Look at it come shimmying in, with a new jingle, a new identity and plenty of new art and design morsels for your malnourished ears.

– This week Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney got together to make some magic happen, and fashion photography duo Inez and Vinoodh caught the lot on camera.

– Founder and creative director of The Gourmand David Lane showed us his very favourite books in this week’s Bookshelf feature, and a right royal selection they are too.

– Digital design is a sprightly beast, racing along at a rate of knots and getting steadily cooler with every passing stride. In an effort to help you keep up we’ve gotten together with design recruitment specialists Represent to put together a series of articles about the most interesting digital design practitioners in London, New York and San Francisco, and popped them all on this delightful site.

This beautiful new game A Way to Go deserves at least ten minutes of your time in exchange for making you approximately 100% happier.

– Once a month we gather up all the amazing stuff we get sent, photograph the ten best ones and shove them all in a post. Here are the best bits from January.

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Tampon Run: Screenshot

– Remember Tampon Run, the game created by two teenage girls at coding camp to simultaneously promote equality in the tech industry and rid the world of the taboo around menstruation? Well they’re back and it’s now a downloadable app with a bunch of levels and a new soundtrack. Genius.

– Thank God for London-based photographer Bex Day. Without her, who’d have plucked these two wonderful hairy men from their motorbikes and had them model for a photoshoot about the iconic 59 Club?

– This week our online editor Emily Gosling went up to have a look at the Hepworth Wakefield’s new exhibition of work by Lynda Benglis, and discovered it’s not all just about cocks and confrontation.

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Paul Rand: Jazzways

NYC will be treated an exhibition of work by legendary designer Paul Rand later this month, but for all the rest of you we’ve put a bunch of it into a lovely post. Enjoy.

– Taste-makers and curators extraordinaire Haw-Lin are a dab hand when it comes to design as well as mood boards. Just get a look at the series of posters they designed for the Ministry of Sound.

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Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee, Blue Shoulder

– The brilliant Viviane Sassen opened a new exhibition at the ICA this week. Being enormous fans we popped down there to have a chat with her and see what all the fuss was about. Read our review here.

– This week Nobrow announced that they’re plunging themselves into digital with an exciting new app, so we pinned them down to get the 101.

– And this new survey claims that the four worst types of design agency can be classed in four simple categories. Rob Alderson isn’t so sure. What do you reckon? Add your comments below!

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The London Underline by Gensler

– Architecture firm Gensler reckons London’s abandoned tube tunnels should be repurposed as a series of subterranean pedestrian pathways and cycle paths. Judging my how happy these people look it’s not a bad idea: just don’t take any wrong turns.

– This week Dazed shared an interview with the inimitable Wim Wenders containing snapshots from his illustrious career. Including hiding out in the toilets at the cinematheque to blag four films for the price of one.

– Tavi Gevinson reflects on the subject of “Being a Woman Online”, and the whole world sits up to listen because if she’s got something to say on the matter then we absolutely want to hear it.

– Ever wondered what to avoid doing during an job interview? This guy did, online, and he got nearly 8,000 answers. Sharing is caring.

– It turns out that chap who was selling opportunities to ship glitter to your enemies was having us all on in a bid to get rich. It worked: he sold the company for $85,000. Here’s how.

– Pentagram has just unveiled $1.6 billion worth of branding for fast food joint Shake Shack. In an extensive and insightful look at the process, Fast Co reveal exactly how far that goes.

Emily Gosling

This video for Vessel, from everyone’s favourite witch-house label Tri Angle, blew my mind earlier this week. It’s a great track and a brilliant and terrifying and erotic video, directed by Pedro Maia.

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Instagram: Fun With Fruit

Maisie Skidmore

Bananas are not just for eating, as this Instagram account proves. It flew all over this week from TIME to Vogue magazine, proving that the media has an insatiable and not entirely explicable interest in fruit-that-looks-like-not-fruit.

Billie Muraben

Late last year this guy tried to raise $1,000,000 to purchase a McDonalds franchise and install it in a church. The idea was that combining the 70 million per day footfall at McDonalds chains with the community centre ideals of churches would benefit both parties. One spot for both a quarter-pounder AND a life-affirming sermon, can’t argue with that.

Somehow, it didn’t catch on. The fundraiser came down at a total of $77 but their flashy website is still up for all to enjoy – with a certain fast food chain’s brand name very discreetly hidden. Merry Mcmass!

James Cartwright

Two of these men are now great comedians and the other is a well-respected documentary filmmaker. Seriously, WTF?

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Patrick Fraser: Laura Marling

Liv Siddall

Snooping inside people’s homes is something I am a teeny bit obsessed by. My friend (a kindred spirit in the snooping world) commented the other day that people who do not have lace curtains are her favourite kinds of people. With that in mind, Patrick Fraser just went out to LA to photograph Laura Marling in her home and oh my LORD it’s great viewing. Her guitars! Rugs! Records! Knick knacks! I love it. What a beautiful set of photos, and how fantastic to shoot inside the abode of such a private, somewhat mysterious person…

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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