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  Regulars / Review of the Year 2018

  Pop culture powerhouse Bryan Rivera’s 2018 in graphic design

  New Yorker Bryan Rivera has had another huge year. A true pop culture powerhouse, his work has adorned some of 2018’s biggest records, with everyone from Post Malone to Nao being given a visual re-rub by one of the most in-demand designers working today.

  Jyni Ong — 10 December 2018

Jyni Ong — 10 December 2018

• Work / Publication

  Vice magazine’s creative team talks us through its new and unexpectedly different redesign

  Pretty much every magazine reader, writer, editor or designer has some kind of relationship with Vice. And, while considered a multi-media publishing conglomerate by most, its print iteration still has a relatively small team working hard to ensure the physical embodiment of Vice still has a publication fanatics seeking it out and picking it up.

  Lucy Bourton — 10 December 2018
• Work / Illustration

  For Ginko Yang “drawing creates the same effects as a mental massage”

  Designer Ginko Yang was born in a semitropical town of Southern China. A few years later, she spent five years in Beijing before embarking on a new creative adventure in London. But it seems that no matter where Ginko is based, the act of “drawing creates the same effects as a mental massage," she tells It’s Nice That, and, as a result, Ginko’s turned her attention away from graphic design to illustration, after years of working as a magazine designer.

  Jyni Ong — 10 December 2018
• News / Graphic Design

  Studio Moross crafts a bold identity for BFI-backed youth cinema initiative

  Going to the cinema is brilliant. Honestly, we’ll watch any old rubbish just to have an excuse to sit in a dark room full of people eating popcorn at Merzbow-record-volume on a dismal Saturday night. Naturally, then, our ears pricked up when we caught wind of Studio Moross collaborating with the British Film Institute (BFA) on Massive, an initiative that seeks to connect younger audiences with British film.

  Josh Baines — 10 December 2018
• Regulars / Review of the Year 2018

  Don’t worry, be angry: how politics and creativity collided in 2018

  In the first of our Review of the Year op-eds, It’s Nice That editor Matt Alagiah casts an eye over the interplay between politics and creativity over the past 12 months.

  Matt Alagiah — 10 December 2018
• Work / Photography

  Julia Falkner and Lorena Hydeman document boys playing with gender for the first time

  Through a series of events, housemates Julia Falkner and Lorena Hydeman found themselves styling the 11-year-old nephew of a friend in clothes from their suitcases, photographing him as he discovered a new world of gender expression. The experience proved formative – both for young Kai and the duo – and it sparked what would become Julia (a photographer) and Lorena’s (a stylist) recently released series Blah Blah Genitals.

  Ruby Boddington — 10 December 2018
• News / Art

  Ai Weiwei creates flag for new human rights awareness campaign

  The influential and inarguably important Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a flag to mark 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Josh Baines — 10 December 2018
• Work / Animation

  Maurice Andresen is reimagining Glasgow’s non-spaces as an ethereal world

  “My practice focuses on the otherworldly," says Glasgow-based animator Maurice Andresen. The creation of ethereal environments and mystical characters is Maurice’s speciality as he merges hyper-real renders of urban landscapes with surreal, alien-like characters to create a sense of displacement amongst what we think we know.

  Jyni Ong — 10 December 2018
• News / Graphic Design

  London Art Fair gets an abstract and textural rebrand for 2019

  London Art Fair is just around the corner. Coming only a few weeks after the country’s eaten more roast potatoes than logically makes sense, the Fair – which runs between 16–20 January 2019 at the Business Design Centre – showcases globally renowned modern art, as well as putting a focus on championing the work of cutting-edge contemporary practitioners.

  Josh Baines — 07 December 2018
• Regulars / Printed Pages

  Printed Pages AW18 feat. Sascha Lobe, Alex Prager, Hassan Hajjaj and more is out now

  Good news! Printed Pages AW18 hits the shelves of bookshops around the world today. As always, this latest issue is our curated view of the best creative work we’ve seen in the past six months.

  It's Nice That — 06 December 2018

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