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Work / Music

Steve Mason: Lost and Found

Words by Alex Bec, Monday 10 May 2010

I usually look for something aesthetically interesting for my weekly video post, but last week have been so enchanted by Steve Mason’s new album, Boys Outside that I thought I should share a single from it, regardless of what it looked like. Luckily the video also has some moments to rival the track, with a photographic quality that we seem to be seeing more and more at the moment – directed by Colonel Blimp’s JMD.

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As both musician and illustrator, South London-born and based Jerkcurb (AKA Jacob Read) frequently sees his disparate creative disciplines collide and inform one another, instilling in both a unified atmosphere of noirish dystopia.

Jamie Green — 12 August 2016
Features / Graphic Design The story of cult label Burger Records' visual identity, crazy work ethic and perma-teen vibes

Since emerging in primary colour-clad punk rock ideals and a cloud of marijuana smoke back in 2007, Burger Records is just about the hippest, goofiest, punkest and most democratic record label around. In true DIY stylings, the label was founded by two guys who just love rock ‘n’ roll and all its accoutrements – the people, the zines, the sleeves, the sofa-surfing buddy-dom – and to this day they do pretty much everything themselves.

Emily Gosling — 09 August 2016
Work / Music A sleepover with a bunch of strangers, thanks to Max Richter's eight-hour Sleep opus

Losing circulation in a very cold pond, an insanity workout in a gallery, dancing about in my pants for the sake of a reinterpreted Twin Peaks; I’ve done a lot of strange things in the name of art, but none as yet have made me as nervous as the prospect of a sleepover in a studio with ten strangers.

Emily Gosling — 21 April 2016
Features / Miscellaneous Kevin King on five years of Secret 7”: where graphic design, art and music meet

Over the last five years Secret 7” has become something of phenomenon. Combining music, art and design, the project has, as of 2016, produced 3,500 one-of-a-kind record sleeves for 35 musicians, raised well over £130,000 for charity, and in 2015 welcomed 22,000 people to the London exhibition. Last year also saw the two-day vinyl show extended to a month-long affair in Somerset House, a model that has carried over to this year, with Sonos Studios in Shoreditch playing host to the fifth edition of Secret 7”.

Alexander Hawkins — 14 April 2016
Work / Film Lernert & Sander create three-in-one music vid for Dutch band

In what is probably one of the more minimal music videos in recent years, the four members of Dutch band De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig stand in three repeated rows, wearing white, grey and black sweatshirts. Directed by Lernert & Sander, the pair behind the new Cos film, the back-to-basics video actually serves as three, and cleverly, you can click on different tabs to hear different tracks played over the same visuals. The effect is somewhat disorientating as you switch between songs, suddenly seeing the correlating row – either white, grey, or black – come into sharp focus. What could be seen as lazy or penny-pinching is actually executed so well, and so seamlessly, it makes you wonder why such resourcefulness isn’t used as inventively more often.

Alexander Hawkins — 10 November 2015
Work / Animation Ely Dagher’s hypnotic and erotic animated vignettes for Model 86’s EP (NSFW)

Numbers on the back of varsity jackets count down, tiny bodies walk across taut bellies, legs swing open and shut, heads roll back in ecstasy, and doppelgängers look between each other’s legs in surprise. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful animated vignettes that Ely Dagher has dreamed up to accompany a new EP from Manchester-born producer Matthew Wilcock aka Model 86. No strangers to fruitful collaboration, earlier this year Ely’s short animated film Waves ’98 scored by Model 86 went on to win a Palme D’Or at Cannes.

Alexander Hawkins — 27 August 2015

Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 Review of the Year 2018: Back to Back with Astrid Stavro and Jody Hudson-Powell

New Pentagram partner Astrid Stavro talks to old hand Jody Hudson-Powell about life at one of the world’s biggest design agencies.

It's Nice That — 18 December 2018
Partnership / Dropbox: Monthly Poster Adam Higton and Atelier Bingo collaborate to illustratively visualise the 12 months of the year

As the year draws to a close and we reflect on the creative comings and goings 2018 has brought, York-based illustrator Adam Higton and French illustration duo Maxime Prou and Adéle Favreau, otherwise known as Atelier Bingo, have been working away interpreting the 12 months of the year into an A4 poster. Collaborating over Dropbox Paper, the group’s final illustrative interpretation will be available for free at our monthly event, Nicer Tuesdays.

It's Nice That — 18 December 2018
Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 Data journalist Mona Chalabi reviews her 2018 in statistics

“Illustrating data is hard,” says Mona Chalabi. Given that Mona is a data journalist who specialises in illustration, she’d know. Over the past few years, London-born, New York-based Mona has produced work for the likes of the International Organization for Migration, the Bank of England, and superstar statistician Nate Silver’s number-heavy editorial platform FiveThirtyEight.

Mona Chalabi — 18 December 2018
Work / Film Kim Gehrig's latest advert is an eclectic, inclusive ode to the vulva

Quickly coming out just as we reach the end of the creative year is Kim Gehrig’s newest advert, Viva La Vulva for Libresse. And, in true Kim style, it’s arguably one of the most joyful, inclusive and confidence-boosting pieces of advertising of 2018.

Lucy Bourton — 18 December 2018
Work / Publication Emulsion is a new magazine offering a holistic view of culture

Emulsion is a new publication documenting cutting-edge arts and culture. Designed by the London-based design studio Our Place, the magazine is founded on pluralistic objectives with the hopes of pushing boundaries through its imaginative design and content. Its first issue is packed with artist interviews, photography, fashion, music, original artworks and opinion pieces from the likes of some of It’s Nice That’s favourite creatives including Jonathan Castro and Ida Ekblad.

Jyni Ong — 18 December 2018
Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 What one word best sums up your year? Take part in our Review of the Year Instagram brief

It’s Nice That’s Review Of The Year 2018 is alive and kicking, and back by popular demand is our one-word Instagram brief where we ask you to reflect on your year, too.

It's Nice That — 18 December 2018

Work / Illustration Hwashin Choi revisits her lonely childhood through exquisitely detailed drawings

Hwashin Choi’s illustrations reject the flat and digital styles of working that are so popular today. Instead, she repurposes traditional modes of realist drawing for a contemporary audience, paying close attention to how light falls on objects and the characterisation of objects and facial expression.

Jyni Ong — 18 December 2018
Features / Publication Oil, gas and fire: Chloe Dewe Mathews photographs human relationships to the elements

If ever you wanted to examine the human relationship to, and reliance on, the very resources which make up our world and how this fundamentally shapes everything we are, you need look no further than the Caspian Sea. Located at the intersection of Asia and Europe, it is the world’s largest inland body of water and one of the oldest and most important oil and natural gas-producing regions on Earth.

Ruby Boddington — 18 December 2018
Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 Google Design's best of 2018

Over the past 12 months, Google has been delving deep into the fascinating world of machine learning with articles on Google Design, plus new open-source projects and products. With AI becoming an increasingly prevalent part of the creative world, this should come as no surprise. Also unsurprisingly, the work it’s carried out in the field is innovative, exciting, and stimulating.

2018’s Review of the Year is supported by Google Design. Google Design, for the uninitiated, is an initiative led by an uber-talented selection of developers, designers, and writers at Google. They’re all about working across teams to create top-notch content and to produce events that champion creativity and showcase the brilliant design work Google does day in and day out. Having celebrated a Milan Design Week debut, amongst other achievements, it feels like Google Design has pushed on from an already exciting position.

We’ve decided to look back on a quartet of projects that turned our head in 2018. For more, check out Google Design’s Best of 2018, where the editorial team highlights all of the year’s noteworthy design projects.h3. Google Fonts + 한국어 소개

It's Nice That — 17 December 2018
Work / Graphic Design Pentagram's Emily Oberman talks us through her identities for the Harry Potter universe

Emily Oberman can hardly believe her luck. The designer, a partner in Pentagram’s New York office since 2012, is a self-professed Harry Potter “super fan” and for the past three years has been working to bring some of the newest projects in the wizarding universe to life. Put simply, it’s been a dream project to work on something that, as she puts it, “entertains the world”.

Matt Alagiah — 17 December 2018
Work / Fashion Pugment is an art-fashion label reflecting the realities of modern-day Tokyo

We all have an idea of what fashion in Tokyo entails. Harajuku girls, manga-inspired makeup, doll-like dresses embellished with lace, Muji minimalism and bold, Comme Des Garçons silhouettes. Our perceptions of Japanese fashion from the West understand boldness and visual excess, yet there are innumerable nuances within Tokyo’s fashion scene as seen through labels such as Pugment.

Jyni Ong — 17 December 2018
Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 Kieran Yates reflects on a world, and a year, in flux

As we near the end of our look back at 2018, we’ve enlisted journalist, broadcaster and editor Kieran Yates to look back over the key moments which shaped the creative (and wider) world over the past 12 months. From logo-heavy football shirts to Love Island, these are some of the stories that got us talking.

Kieran Yates — 17 December 2018

Work / Graphic Design Paperpress locates the point where “graphic design and description overlap”

Shinwoo Park has been running the graphic design studio Paperpress since 2016 in Seoul. Working across a variety of disciplines wherever graphics are concerned, from the tongue of a shoe trainer to pin badges and poster design, Paperpress locates the point where “graphic design and description overlap” to create expressive designs that suit each client.

Jyni Ong — 17 December 2018
Work / Photography Andrés Mañon documents Mexico City's queer creative scene through ornate portraiture

“I think with photography you can create a whole fantasy around yourself, so when I design a set and develop a character for a picture, I try to create an entirely new reality for me and the people I’m portraying, hopefully, a reality that is better than the actual one,” explains México City-based photographer Andrés Mañon. With several commissions for the likes of i-D Mexico under his belt, Andrés’ work does exactly as he intends, building elaborate worlds full of over-saturated, yet altogether compelling characters.

Ruby Boddington — 17 December 2018
Regulars / Nicer Tuesdays Anna Haifisch gives us a reading of the best of The Artist series

Our final speaker at Nicer Tuesdays November was Leipzig-based illustrator, Anna Haifisch. After seeing Anna speak at Eike König’s After School Club in Offenbach during July this year, we quickly realised the illustrator was a must to speak at Nicer Tuesdays before the year was up, also doubling up as the first comic reading we’ve had at our monthly event.

It's Nice That — 17 December 2018
Regulars / Nicer Tuesdays Yuri Suzuki on how the key design tool is always communication

Joining us at Nicer Tuesdays November was Yuri Suzuki, shortly after the designer’s slightly surprising announcement that he was the newest Pentagram partner. Even Yuri notes how the decision for him to join the design partnership was a surprise to himself, recalling how when the initial conversation began his first question was “Why!?”

Its Nice That — 14 December 2018
Work / Photography Anna Sullivan creates a look back at the fascinating tradition of stilt walking shepherds

A little while ago, art director Anna Sullivan spotted an old vintage postcard featuring stilt walking shepherds. Stilt walking shepherds! Curious, as anyone in their right mind would be, Anna started digging into why these shepherds were atop stilts — which we now only associate with childhood games and circus performances — to herd sheep.

Lucy Bourton — 14 December 2018
Work / Animation Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared to debut at Sundance Film Festival

It’s Nice That favourites Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared created by the fun-filled directors Becky and Joe, will head to Sundance Film Festival next year. The Blinkink creative duo will premier their Youtube-hit series at the largest independent film festival in the US this January 2019.

Jyni Ong — 14 December 2018

Work / Film Director Angela Stephenson documents Manila's defiance for creative freedom in the narco-state

Boiler Room is yet again shedding light on important social issues in a part of the world that is little known to us. The second film for its Contemporary Scenes series is To Live & Die in Manila and sees music orientated artists from the Filipino capital emotively express their frustrations under the bloodbaths incurred by the president of just over two years, Rodrigo Duterte.

Jyni Ong — 14 December 2018
Regulars / Friday Mixtape Friday Mixtape: Anthony Naples takes us from the party to the after party

New York based producer and DJ Anthony Naples has been an It’s Nice That favourite ever since we first heard the effervescent Mad Disrespect on some sweaty dancefloor somewhere back in 2012. We were hooked from that half-remembered moment on.

Josh Baines — 14 December 2018
Work / Photograhy Yung Hua Chen’s photography is effortlessly glamorous

Yung Hua Chen’s photography is seductive and cinematic. The Taipei-based photographer captures alluring portraits for fashion designers and also, purely for the love of the medium. Recently, she’s been shooting her lover Chihtian Shih. She tells It’s Nice That, “he inspires me in many kinds of ways. He’s an actor and plays many different roles that give him different life experiences.” Chihtian’s brooding good looks are seen in all types of situations; dappled in a dusky sunlight, walking the streets of Taipei, peacefully sleeping still in his clothes.

Jyni Ong — 14 December 2018
Work / Graphic Design Design studio Julia on a decade of turning complex ideas into graphic symbols

For the past ten years, graphic and spacial design studio Julia has been producing work for clients from the cultural and commercial sector, including everything from typefaces to books, magazines, exhibitions, posters, websites and identities. Having been formed in late 2008 by Valerio Di Lucente, Erwan Lhuissier and Hugo Timm, Valerio and Erwan (who have been running the studio since May of this year) are celebrating a decade of Julia. We caught up with the pair to find out a bit more about how their work has taken shape over this time.

Ruby Boddington — 14 December 2018
Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 Photographer Tyler Mitchell talks us through a momentous year in his career

For many of us, photographs are a way of locating ourselves in a time and place. They act as temporal markers, reminding us of people and events who might have otherwise fallen into the ether of memory’s unreliability.

Josh Baines — 14 December 2018
Regulars / Nicer Tuesdays Francesca Allen on using photography as a means of self-expression

Joining us at November’s Nicer Tuesdays was photographer Francesca Allen, a creative who has had a fast-paced career full of memorable moments, of which she creates just as many behind the camera as she does in front of it.

It's Nice That — 13 December 2018

Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 Review of the Year 2018: Back to Back with Joey Yu and Olimpia Zagnoli

Two of our favourite illustrators talk about the things that really mattered to them this year – memes, animation, and more

It's Nice That — 13 December 2018
Work / Illustration Ram Han’s work continues to rekindle images of childhood nostalgia

Since we last spoke to the Seoul-based illustrator Ram Han last year, she has continued to bring her fantastical imagination to life through a new series of works titled Room. In her trademark style of metallic gloss, Ram’s latest illustrations explore the idea of personal space seen through bedrooms and personal objects.

Jyni Ong — 13 December 2018
Regulars / Review of the Year 2018 Sophy Hollington on learning to be creatively fulfilled while earning a living in 2018

During parts of 2018 it almost felt like you couldn’t look at a magazine, bookshelf or website without spotting the work of illustrator Sophy Hollington. Her body of work — one that’s elevated the art of linocutting beyond hazy memories of art classes into a sought after stylistic medium — has the ability to transform any written piece it often seems to accompany. This is down to Sophy’s illustrative talents of course, but also her consideration of the task at hand, steeping her process in research, thematic influences and a genuine interest of exploring what visual imagery can do.

Lucy Bourton — 13 December 2018
Work / Ones To Watch 2018 Same Paper and KangHee Kim's latest book is a golden journey from dawn to dusk

It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch shines a light on 12 emerging talents who we think will conquer the creative world in 2018. From a global pool of creative talent, we have chosen our 2018 Ones To Watch for their ability to consistently produce inspiring and engaging work across a diverse range of disciplines. Each of our selections continually pushes the boundaries of what is possible with their creative output. Ones to Watch 2018 is supported by Uniqlo.

Ruby Boddington — 13 December 2018
Sponsored / Found in Adobe Stock We ask Duncan Cowles to create the ultimate Christmas ad, using only Adobe Stock and some expert advice

This winter It’s Nice That is partnering with Adobe Stock on a series of articles that celebrate their collection of millions of high-quality images, graphics, videos, 3D assets. Over the coming we will be providing an insight into how the Adobe Stock collection can benefit your creative practice.

Lucy Bourton — 13 December 2018
Work / Graphic Design Studio Albert Romagosa’s publication designs are uncomplicated yet intelligible

Barcelona-based studio, Studio Albert Romagosa was founded in 2014 by the designer of the same name. Crisp and clearly executed, the studio has developed a reputation for design precision to accompany striking visuals. With a variety of clients, the studio works on book design, branding and web design, consistently delivering polished, concept-based designs that are sympathetic to the client’s function.

Jyni Ong — 13 December 2018

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