O.N.O. for Lunice is the first release from an ambitious film-making project by LuckyMe co-founders Dominic Flannigan and Peter Marsden and Apple Music. The collaboration between the label and the platform will see five films centred on five of the label’s artists, each highly personal to the musician and artistically disparate.

After graduating from Central St Martins last year and studying contemporary phiosophy, graphic designer Tatiana Ermolaeva returned to her native Moscow to work at the Strelka Institute. Mixing the artistic and the academic has allowed the designer to develop her very own approach to design, “although I am still figuring out how to combine it all,” she tells It’s Nice That.

David Bailey’s talk from September’s Nicer Tuesdays is a must-watch for any font fanatic. Creative director of GEL (global experience language) and UX&D at the BBC, David discusses the intricacies of launching a new typeface for the BBC, titled BBC Reith after its 1927 director general.

“My drawings are like monologues,” says Seoul-based illustrator Shin Morae. “I draw to remember something or someone very important to me – they are memories. My work is very nostalgic.” As well as subject matter, this sense of nostalgia has worked its way into Shin’s aesthetic, which is inspired by 90s anime, in particular the colour palettes. Throughout her portfolio, the illustrator has created a world full of sugary sweet pastel hues tied together by fine linework and smooth gradients.

The Bell Works, formerly known as the Bell Labs, in New Jersey was the birthplace of information technology and data theory as we know it. The complex was completed in 1962, one year after the death of its architect Eero Saarinen and features a dramatic Josef Albers-inspired atrium which, in the summer of 2016, played host to an in-situ data collecting ritual of over 10,000 roses by French-American artist Sarah Meyohas.

As a designer who once built and destroyed a life-size monster truck hearse; contributed to the New York Times; and having taught at the School for Visual Arts for the past 13 years, Paul Sahre is regarded as one of the most influential graphic designers of his generation. Two Dimensional Man: A Graphic Memoir is his unique take on a traditional design monograph – “part memoir, part art book, part mediation on creativity.”

Jamie Williams is a partner at London-based independent creative agency Isobel. Here, he asks, how can we connect young diverse talent with the agencies who crave it?

“How do you get into advertising?” I’ve heard this question a lot, but equally important questions to ask are “Why get into advertising?” or “Should I get into advertising?” So let’s start there.

Advertising and the wider creative industries are changing quicker than almost any other industry. There are so many different ways for brands to engage with consumers, only the best agencies and marketers stay ahead of the game.

The industry is always on the look-out for something new. Fresh ideas, a new approach, new insights, new trends, new technology, new talent. While experience and knowledge are absolutely crucial in our industry, they need to be mixed with new thinking and new approaches.

I’ve sat through enough uninspiring presentations on youth marketing to know that utilising the thinking and energy of young people is of great importance to agencies.

So for young people, I think our industry is an incredibly exciting one, jam-packed with diverse opportunities, within creative, design, strategy, tech, project management, and that’s just the start. And if you do well, you can move up remarkably quickly.

We don’t have formal operating qualifications like medicine or law. Some young people see this as a negative, but it means that in theory, anyone can make it in advertising. While the range of advertising and marketing courses available are all beneficial, as are wider degrees and diplomas, some of the most successful people in our industry have very little traditional education. Once you’re in, it’s how well you perform that matters.

But having said all of this, I know our industry often doesn’t feel very accessible.

From the outside, advertising has always had a glamorous image. However far from the truth it may be, it’s an industry associated with celebrities, fame, money, and the bright lights of London.

There are great agencies and opportunities throughout the country, but London is where the main action is, where most of the jobs are, and it’s a pricey place to live. If you live a long way from London, getting into advertising can seem a long way off.

Ricky Leung’s work is often inspired by the idea of “slow living”, with a sustainable, local and organic approach to everyday life being both “intriguing and beautiful” to the illustrator. “Travelling, interior deign, film photography and food are things I love… I want to convey those feelings and imagery through a light-hearted and playful way.”

Although it’s not even been a year since Donald Trump was elected as president, with his questionable decision making hitting headlines daily, it feel like a lifetime. But behind the man, the quiff, and the jokes is ultimately a nation heartbreakingly divided.

Choreographer and director Holly Blakey taught the Nicer Tuesdays audience the benefits of stepping outside your direct medium, and how this can help you to learn about your practice, as well as the wider repercussions of it.

Elise By Olsen started blogging aged eight, and by the time she was 12 she’d founded a blog network with a fistful of similarly entreprenial friends called Archetype, whose vision was to tie together young bloggers across art, music, photography and fashion under one vertical.

“We wake up and check our screens for messages. If we travel to work on public transport, more than half of us are on our phones. We stare at screens for work and communication throughout the day. Travel home, and watch a screen again for entertainment or swipe it to hook up. Sometimes with a second screen on our lap. Then we go to sleep with our screens next to our beds,” reads the back cover of Watch This Space, a limited edition collaboration between author Francesca Gavin and Pentagram partners Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell.

Throughout 2017, Camden Council have been running a programme of cultural events to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act (1967), which saw the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in the UK. To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with Camden Council and asked four brilliant LGBTQ creatives to join us for 50 Years On: one night at Central St Martins, Granary Square on Wednesday 1 November to speak about their work across art, design, fashion and film through the lens of their personal experiences, asking what it means to identify as LGBTQ in the creative industry in the UK – and wider world – 50 years on.

Growing up with a photographer for a father and a darkroom in his basement, it seems only natural that Brooklyn-based Michael Marcelle would eventually have a go at the medium himself. “He’d always give me cameras and rolls of film and set me loose in the backyard and then we’d develop the film together downstairs – which was equal parts thrilling and scary because I was totally terrified of the basement when I was a kid,” Michael told us.

Books From The Future is a London-based publisher working at the intersection of research, education and publishing founded by educators Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees. The pair started Books From The Future as a way to explore the models used to structure contemporary art and design education that are “no longer relevant yet have become so institutionalised and internalised that alternatives can seem wildly idealistic and unrealistic by comparison.”

Beauty Papers is a biannual magazine spearheaded by creative duo Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wickes, offering an outlet to liberate creative beauty and “give beauty a brave new face". The publication tackles, through a series of articles and editorials, the complexities of modern beauty with a focus on “freeing it from its formulaic shackles,” to offer a new, more contemporary definition. “The beauty discussion is no longer just reserved for hushed conversations about classical painting or a particular Holloway star or model,” the duo explain. “It’s now served up on a daily, minute by minute digital basis and is enmeshed in our lives.”

It is no secret that we are fond of Molly Matalon. Whether we’re writing about the LA-based photographer or commissioning her ourselves when working on something across the pond, her tenderly composed images impress us every time — or maybe we’re just endlessly envious of the sun-filled photographs she produces.

Laura Callaghan took to the Nicer Tuesday’s stage in September, taking the audience on a journey through her illustration career. Coming from a small town in Ireland, — “their best known cultural output so far is The Corrs, that’s what I have to live up to” — moving to England in 2009 for a masters in illustration at Kingston University.