Treat yourselves to our very sexy weekly digest – The Weekender!

Date
13 February 2015

“Mmmm,” she moaned, her eyes eating up the delectable design news across the It’s Nice That homepage. “I still want more…,” she purred. “Now.” Sorry love, you can’t have any more this week – it’s ruddy Friday, and we’ve only got eyes for the pub, stone cold mashup merchants that we are. But whatever you’re up to this weekend, be it romantic, be it Ikea or be it watching people say things as erudite as “I gasp, and I’m Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he’s the serpent, and I cannot resist” in Fifty Shades of Grey, have a blast, and treat yourself to this VERY SEXY INDEED digest of what we’ve been into in the art and design world this week.

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Stevie Gee’s Bookshelf

– This week illustrator and art director Stevie Gee made light work of the Bookshelf feature, using a skateboard, some silken panties and his docile cat Olive as props and choosing some killer titles too. Have a read!

– This week on Studio Audience we bring you the highlights of this week’s art and design news, and try to put our finger on just what it is which makes games like Swords and Sworcery and A Way to Go so very emotional (Sniff.)

– It’s Valentines weekend, and while we can’t get you a date or get you laid, we can get you all razzed up with our sexy love-themed mixtape! Like Cupid’s arrow in musical form.

– We just launched tickets for our annual creative symposium, Here London, with a seriously swanky new site. Check it out now to get tickets, or just to have a dribble over Jan Buchczik’s brilliant illustrations.

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Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project

– This week we spoke to Olafur Eliasson about tech, art, techy art, and Berlin’s exceptional people. What a nice man.

– The Barbican Centre’s new exhibition places artists’ collections in the spotlight, and it’s a delight to wander around. Where else can you admire Damien Hirst’s giant taxidermy lion and Andy Warhol’s cookie jar collection side by side?

– Top notch art direction here from Rumors, which demystifies book cover design for us by talking about its art direction for Verso Books.

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Richard Turley: MTV

– We had a two part bonanza this week from MTV’s Richard Turley, who has been hard at work harnessing the power of pop culture for the megabrand. Read part one here, and then shimmy over to part two. Or just stare spellbound at this GIF of JT crying a river for realsies.

– To celebrate Pentagram’s great new work for Shake Shack, we gave you a rundown of fast food branding, Including one very creepy puppet man.

– The dresses! The glitz! The glamour! A wonderful chap named Beck giving a leg up to some dude called Kanye! Yes, the Grammys happened on Sunday night, and Rolling Stone has kindly published the complete list of winners here.

– In perhaps less glamorous awards, the BT Home Hub 5, designed by Alloy, has won the Grand Prix at this year’s DBA Design effectiveness awards.

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Photography by Evan Schreiber

– Speaking of that dude Kanye, he’s been a busy Yeezy this week, debuting his adidas collection at New York Fashion Week.

– Elsewhere in America, on Tuesday it was announced that Jon Stewart is to leave The Daily Show after 15 years on the satirical show.

– In yet another deft move that sees artist Ai Weiwei finding clever ways to get round the fact he can’t leave China, it’s been revealed that he’s going to direct a film in Berlin, through Skype. HUH broke the news earlier in the week, which you can read here.

– Very sad news broke last night that Visage lead singer and club-kid pioneer Steve Strange had died, aged 55. There’s a wonderful piece over on The Guardian that shows just what a special man he was.

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BBC & Bounce

Emily Gosling

I haven’t read the story, I haven’t seen the broadcast but boy oh boy have I seen the tweets. The BBC seems to have interviewed this unimpressed-looking Labrador today, testing whether – as has been reported – dogs can tell if you’re happy or sad. Our interviewee’s name is Bounce. As the BBC helpfully points out, he is a dog. Just look at the picture. If that doesn’t make you smile, I reckon you must be very sad indeed, and I’m pretty sure the dogs would know it.

Rob Alderson

David Carr, who died yesterday, was a hero to many journalists. The New York Times media writer came to the attention of a lot of people through Page One, a documentary about life at America’s most famous newspaper where he was a grizzled inspiration, a man who seemed reluctant to embrace the sea-change affecting his beloved industry. Famously he was seen ranting about Vice’s attempts to cover news, but he was big enough to see when he was wrong, and in recent years became a thoughtful champion of new media platforms.

His friend A.O. Scott wrote a fine tribute to Carr, who described journalism once as “a grand caper.” His loss will be felt by all those who think this is the best job in the world.

Billie Muraben

So apparently it’s fashion week soon? With that in mind, and the fact that we’ve spent the afternoon listening to ultimate dreamboat David Byrne…. here’s the greatest mall-set fashion show ever to take place, in a scene from his 1986 classic True Stories. It’s basically like Clueless, but way postmodern, and rather than Cher and Dion we’ve got David and John Goodman.

James Cartwright

I’ve been getting really upset with billionaires and bankers agin this week after all the fallout from HSBC’s Swiss banking scandal. Then I read this article about a charitable business mogul and I’m starting to think that the super-rich might actually be lovely, cuddly human beings with real blood pumping through their veins after all.

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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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