Round off your final wintry week with a bundle of art! Here's the Weekender

Date
6 March 2015

Ladies, gentlemen, children and small animals! It’s that time of year when you raise your nose from the duvet you’ve been burying it in all winter to the open window, to feel the soft, warm breeze fluttering against your eyelashes. The prophesy has come true! Spring is on its way and to celebrate we’ve got a shed-load of art and design news, interviews, features and some plain nonsense for ya.

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Miranda July

– This week we spent so long hanging out chatting with the inimitable Miranda July that we posted not ONE but TWO fascinating interviews with her, covering topics from babies, love and sexuality to psychedelics.

– We love the stuff you make! Here is some of the very best of it from the month of February in one handy post for your consumption.

– On the Studio Audience podcast this week we run through seven days worth of art and design news and have a good old chinwag about Wieden + Kennedy.

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Stefanie Moshammer: Vegas and She

– We’re still enjoying these photographs of the women of Las Vegas, taken by Stefanie Moshammer, who captures unexpected angles with a touching sensitivity.

– The Queen got a new coin this week, which we figured was plenty reason enough to look back at some of the best currency design proposals from the past.

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Gary Wallis: Alexander McQueen

– In the midst of the Alexander McQueen hype which is washing over London at the moment, we speak to photographer Gary Wallis about his new book reflecting on his relationship with the designer.

– They’ve done it again! Grilli Type’s mini-site, created to show off their new typeface GT Cinetype, is a veritable buffet of cult film quotations. Tuck in.

– Living history groups – definitely not live action role-play – have a practical side to them too. Take a look via proxy of Euan Forrester’s photographs behind the scenes.

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Steven Chorney: The Wizard of Oz

– This week we interviewed Steven Chorney, the artist behind some of the most iconic hand-painted movie posters ever created for the big screen about the film industry.

– Following Cape Town’s Design Indaba conference last week, editor-in-chief Rob Alderson questions whether the end of the ego-designer may be nigh.

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M/M (Paris): Björk: Archives

– And could all Björk fans please flock this way? We spoke to M/M (Paris) about creating the satisfyingly weighty Björk: Archives which, we were informed, “is not a coffee table book.”

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Kanye and Rihanna

– After Kanye’s creative agency accidentally tweeted a picture of the logo, it has been confirmed that Kanye West and Rihanna will tour together later this year.

– Will-I-Am reckons we’ll be printing humans before you know it, and he’s cashing in on it.

– This week IKEA took wireless technology one step further with a wireless charging station. Genius, or a bit much?

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Google California HQ

– Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick have revealed Google’s California HQ, and it’s a wonderful example of the versatility of bubblewrap.

Maisie Skidmore

God bless Laura Marling for drip-feeding us tidbits from her new album Short Movie! I came across this new song I Feel Your Love this morning and it sounds better than I ever could have anticipated.

James Cartwright

After a hard day at work I like nothing more then to go home and crack open a bottle of Beaujolais to help me unwind. But I’ve often sat alone in my flat polishing off a bottle and wishing I had someone to drink with. But today I found out I can now booze with my cat, thanks to a specially-made wine for cats. It’s called Nyan Nyan Nouveau and gets felines fucked up. Which is great news because my cat is a hilarious conversationalist when she’s had a few. This isn’t a joke either. Credible news source Time reported it.

Billie Muraben

The Endless Summer is a documentary made in 1966 that follows two surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August on a surfing trip around the world. The idea was that with the time, money and inclination it would be possible to chase summer by circumnavigating the world. Today, I had lunch outside for the first time in six months, waxed lyrical about wearing shorts and leaving the house without a coat. It’s all relative, right?

Liv Siddall

I’m obsessed with the guys in Encyclopedia Pictura, and had the pleasure of interviewing them this week. As well as making the best music videos I have EVER SEEN, this little film also resides in their back catalogue. It’s their interpretation of the internet, and it’s absolutely spot on. Messy, technical, loud, fast, full of people bumping around like moths not knowing what the fuck they are doing. Clap clap clap.

www.encyclopediapictura.com

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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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