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Jieun Lee paints Australian scenes where she fell in love with traveling
Jyni Ong —When Jieun Lee and a group of her friends traveled to Australia last year, the Suwon-based illustrator took the opportunity to paint the “good and warm” urban landscapes she vividly remembers. “These are the places where I fell in love with traveling," she tells It’s Nice That. Photographing a bank imagery that signify these feelings, Jieun then started painting from these photographs once she was back in Korea, adding a dash of Hockney’s colour palette to the charming paintings.
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Veronica Graham has turned her VR game about global warming into an artist’s book
Rebecca Irvin —“Imagine a time where nature and civilisation are engaged in the ultimate power struggle… Who will reign supreme? Who will achieve destruction on a level never imagined?” So speaks the narrator in the script for a virtual reality game interrogating the threat and fear of climate change, dreamt up by California-based visual artist Veronica Graham. In her new Risograph-printed publication, NAT vs CIV, self-published under the moniker Most Ancient, Veronica creates a series of storyboards that envision how the game will play out in its digitised form.
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Introducing Double Click – our new series rounding up the best of the digital design world
Ruby Boddington —Welcome to the first in a new series we’re launching here at It’s Nice That. Called Double Click, each month it will bring you a round-up of some of our favourite websites and digital designs floating around out there on the world wide web. Whether they employ lateral thinking to show us a new way of navigating a site, use animation to enhance the reading experience, or feature some downright bonkers interactions, we’ll be chatting to the creators of each site to find out more about the thinking that went into the design.
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Laure Prouvost has designed the 30th Art on the Underground tube map
Josh Baines —For the past 15 years now, the Art on the Underground scheme has been giving London’s harried and harassed commuters something to smile about as they slide between Stratford and Stanmore at seven in the morning.
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New York City’s privately owned public spaces get an enticing new logo
Josh Baines —The New York City Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society put an open call out earlier this year for a new logo for the Big Apple’s POPS – the privately owned public spaces which account for around 3.8 million square feet of the city.
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Rottingdean Bazaar creates a book for Paul Smith, starring people named Paul Smith
Matt Alagiah —It’s not every day that a successful global fashion brand allows itself and its message to be interpreted by someone from outside the company. But that’s exactly what Paul Smith has done with a wonderfully weird new book, created by James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks, otherwise known as Rottingdean Bazaar.
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Photographer Dustin Thierry empowers and represents those who’ve experienced social injustices
Ruby Boddington —Photographer Dustin Thierry, born on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, is now based in Amsterdam where he uses his camera to bolster communities he is both a part of, and feels a responsibility towards. Working on long-term projects, his images are sensitive and full of joy, not to mention beautiful, and tackle themes surrounding race, gender, sexuality, and vulnerable minorities.
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Dylan Jones has made a book of drawings, and it’s weird
Rebecca Irvin —The last time we wrote about illustrator and animator Dylan Jones, we were fascinated by the mysterious figure calling himself Hologram Ceiling and producing fantastically absurd, squiggly drawings on coloured paper in bright pastels and pencil. Since then, Dylan has produced three mini publications with Gridlords, as well as continuing to create his signature bizarre, hallucinatory illustrations, which take our weirdest fantasies and reflect them back at us in a funhouse mirror.
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The Shanghai Art Book Fair 2019 welcomed the creative industry’s big-wigs this weekend
Jyni Ong —China’s biggest city, Shanghai, located on the country’s central coast and most well known for its global buzz in the finance world, is now also tackling the wonderful world of independent publishing through the Shanghai Art Book Fair.
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Rem Koolhaas releases pro-EU video essay for The Guardian
Josh Baines —London-based Dutch architectural giant Rem Koolhaas has taken to the pages of The Guardian to air his grievances about Brexit. Sort of.
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Advertising —
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Film —
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Animation —
For Alice Monvaillier, animation is a "pretty magical process"
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Graphic Design —
City Edition Studio creates projects with a soft, collaborative and kind tone of voice
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Graphic Design —
Jack Smyth talks us through what makes a successful book jacket design
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Architecture —
Louvre Pyramid architect I M Pei passes away at 102
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Illustration —
Meet this year's winners of the V&A's Illustration Awards
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Illustration —
Have an ogle at Sein Koo’s marker pen illustrations of all things food-related
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Fashion —
Lacoste once again swaps its iconic crocodile logo for ten endangered species
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Publication —
Albert magazine's analytical yet colourful design proves how “knowledge can also have sex appeal”
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Illustration —
On This Planet is an illustration exhibition combatting wildlife habitat loss
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Graphic Design —
Typeface Ciao communicates auditive intonations of the spoken word
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Photography —
Photography duo Luke & Nik talk us through the inspirations for their analogue manipulation
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Art —
Filmmaker and writer Pedro Neves Marques merges biopolitics with sexual politics
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Nicer Tuesdays —
Dinamo's Fabian Hard on exploring new technology with typography
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If You Could Jobs —
Jobs of the week from Bloomsbury Publishing, Mous and Pirate Studios!
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Animation —
Daria Kashcheeva combines stop motion, documentary-style filmmaking and painterly techniques
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Events —
Hackable minds, the power of empathy, and boredom: what we learned at Adobe's 99U
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Illustrator Janice Chang uses humour and bendy limbs to tell personal stories
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