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“Materials exist everywhere and make up our world, everything is made of something,” outlines founder and director of Ma-tt-er – and former It’s Nice That One to Watch – Seetal Solanki. A research design studio that explores the past, present and future of materials, last night (20 September) Seetal launched Ma-tt-er’s first book, Why Materials Matter, which questions what it means to live in a material world, and how materials of the past and present hold the keys to our future.
Rankin’s newest project aims to reframe the “beauty status quo” in a new book, Portrait Positive
A new book titled Portrait Positive is the latest project shot by Rankin in collaboration with the charity, Changing Faces and designer Steven Tai. Rankin photographed 16 women with medical conditions that exhibit physically such as scars, in order to promote a diversity of beautiful faces.
Watch the trailer for the Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, the television show
We love Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared here at It’s Nice That. So much so that we featured the series’ protagonists – Duck, Red Guy and Yellow Guy – on the cover of the SS16 issue of Printed Pages. So it’s needless to say when we saw the announcement the shorts are being turned into a television show, we’ve gotten very excited.
Tickets now available for September’s Nicer Tuesdays
Back once again on the last Tuesday of September, it’s Nicer Tuesdays! This month’s edition sees a stellar line-up grace the stage at Oval Space as we’ll be hearing from renowned Scottish photographer Dougie Wallace, creative director and filmmaker Margot Bowman, independent creative agency Superimpose and illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli will be joining us from her home in Milan.
The brightly coloured creations that Italian illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli whizzes up have graced the pages of It’s Nice That countless times. With a talent for pairing colours and shapes that bounce off screens and magazines alike, Olimpia’s work is instantly noticeable and explains why clients and illustration lovers fall for her time and time again. Recently releasing a new series Cuore di Panna, Olimpia used her style to evoke childhood memories of late 1980s Italian culture and will be taking us through the lip-licking drawings included in the series. Dougie Wallace is a name that will ring a bell with photography fanatics and eager people watchers. Internationally recognised for his ability to capture anyone – from the wealthy shoppers in Harrods to barking dogs – Dougie captures life as he sees it using his high-flash social documentarian eye. The photographer will be joining us to talk through how he’s developed this approach and the projects that have followed.
Times Newer Roman is the typeface that might help you beat page counts with ease
Most people reading this will have experience of writing essays, and anyone who has experience of writing essays also has experience of the unique hell of trying to hit a word count that simply refuses to be hit. There is, it turns out, only so much that hungover 19 year old you has to say about Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic.
Dairy drinks and cigarettes meet in Lucas Reis’ illustrative evocations of Japan
When Lucas Reis was a kid growing up in Brazil, he had a Japanese friend. That friend was Lucas’ link to a country that has gone on to fascinate him ever since. The illustrator — who is also a creative at Mother — absorbed as much as he could from his playground pal. “As my taste began to develop in music, art, and design, I was always very aware of what was happening in Japan,” he tells It’s Nice That. “I tried to really understand what such a different mindset to my own could produce.”
Blurred lines: why collaboration between creatives and consumers is more exciting than ever
Picture the scene. The year is 1988, and you’re a photographer, or illustrator, or writer, with brilliant ideas. You know exactly what it is you have to offer the world — a touching portrait of vegetable growing competitions in Todmorden, say, or the Great North Norfolk Novel, perhaps — but you’re not sure how best to get it out there. Letters to publishers go unsent, and the idea of picking up the phone to Martin Parr’s office and seeing if he’d be interested in flicking through a set of negatives over a cup of tea is understandably daunting. You don’t write the novel, and the photos remain forever sheathed in PVC and stuffed in a chest of drawers.
Ghoulish silhouettes, jittering zombie eyes and blood-red dripping slime. This is what the I Saw John First directed title sequence for b-movie homage, Slice, is made of.
Pentagram presents Dazzle at the V&A for nine days as part of London Design Festival
Pentagram has brought a truly dazzling installation to the V&A as part of London Design Festival, presently running until 23 September 2018. Commissioned for the First World War centenary by 14-18 Now, the exhibition commemorates one of the most intriguing design features that came out of the war. Dazzle is inspired by a type of camouflage used during the First World War, known as dazzle camouflage where abstract shapes and angles were painted onto the surface of war ships in an experimental, protective method pioneered by British artist Norman Wilkinson.
Jackson Green’s design work explores the chasm that exists between statement and intent
New-York based graphic designer and type designer, Jackson Green mainly works with musical artists and clothing brands to create an effective “tone of voice” through his designs. His designs are bold and colourful, influenced by the futuristic ideas of Wim Crouwel which strive towards a sense of chronological ambiguity in the design’s make-up. Speaking to It’s Nice That, Jackson explains, “a huge part of my reason for design is to explore the Explanatory Gap”, a philosophical idea coined by Joseph Levine investigating how physical properties give rise to the way things feel when they are experienced.
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Unseen Amsterdam's artistic director on how its richest line-up yet inspires and informs
Photography —
Getty Images announces winners of annual photojournalism grant
Graphic Design —
MUBI unveils new ident by Lucy Raven
Friday Mixtape —
Friday Mixtape: Animator Steve Smith takes us from Kate Bush to Oneohtrix Point Never
If You Could Jobs —
Jobs of the week from L' Atelier Five, Grand Matter, Paysafe Group, Anyways and It's Nice That too!
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Tom Galle’s internet-based practice captures your attention in a few seconds, scrolling through your feed
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French collective BRVTVS take us on an intergalactic mission in new Gorillaz G-Shock campaign video
Graphic Design —
D&AD launches its 2018 Annual with a manual to inspire future generations of creatives
Publication —
Taschen's celebration of 15 years of Sneaker Freaker magazine will be out later this year
Art —
“Fear and desire for connection and the blocks to it”: artist Martine Syms on her exhibition Grand Calme
Film —
Iggy Ldn captures beauty, power and pain in his short film, Velvet
Exhibition —
Art Bank Taiwan joins London Design Biennale this week, exploring cultural identity through political and social commentary
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Tiziana Jill Beck explores the identity of anonymous travellers through masks
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Publication —
The new issue of Indoek brings America's oldest city to life
Animation —
Master of plasticine Kate Isobel Scott is back with a new animation
Publication —
Anarcho publishers Dog Section Press release newest "pocket pamphlet to be feared"
Art —
Christian Marclay's cult-classic The Clock gets Tate Collective screening
Graphic Design —
Johannes Schnatmann understands himself as an author as much as a graphic designer
Film —
Filmmaker Edouard Salier directs "sexy, strange and brutal" new music video for Justice
Film —
Filmmaker Samona Olanipekun explores innocence and loss in his love letter to the immigrant experience, Kindred
Publication —
Beyond Heaven is a visual history of early Chicago house music
Publication —
Grab an essential work of cultural criticism from publishers Verso for free right now
Product Design —
Bompas & Parr's ice cream competition has been won by a Roman inspired treat
Animation —
Dinner For Few is an allegorical animation depicting our society that benefits a select few
