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A Nice Idea Every Day

Words by Alex Bec, Monday 31 May 2010

Today is a national holiday in the UK, but despite a lack of usual posts, our Guest Post feature battles on regardless. This week’s invitees are A Nice Idea Every Day, two German creatives whose moniker has been aptly applied. Their work is nice, their output is varied and their choices for you this week engaging.

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Balmer Hählen takes a traditional Swiss design approach to its projects 20 October 2017
Friday Mixtape: a very rare mixtape from the one and only John Carpenter 20 October 2017
Josh McKenna talks through his work on Pride for Google and Instagram 20 October 2017

Work / Film LuckyMe’s Lunice film for Apple Music is a theatrical trip through 90s hip hop videos

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.

Jenny Brewer — 19 October 2017
Work / World Mental Health Day Cinematographer Rina Yang on the art of balancing life with 12 hour working days

If her social media feeds are anything to go by, Rina Yang is never not working. The cinematographer was born in a little city in Japan, and has since grafted her way into every crevice of the creative industry, working her way up to prize-winning status at neck-breaking speed: she was working as a DOP in a notoriously hard to access male-dominated industry just three years after graduating.

Bryony Stone — 10 October 2017
Work / Film Lucas Zanotto's humorous and endearing video, Eyes

Italian-born director Lucas Zanotto has just released a personal project entitled Eyes. The video explores the transformative effect that eyes can have on inanimate objects through a series of kinetic sculptures. Eyes is a continuation of the director’s previous project Having a Face which saw him entertaining similar visual puns.

Ruby Boddington — 06 October 2017
Work / Film Behind the scenes of Stormzy’s new film with director Rollo Jackson

Last night, Stormzy dropped his long-awaited new film GSAP via YouTube. The 15-minute long short neatly sews together three narrative strands, telling the story of fictional character Thomas “T” as a young boy and a teenager growing up in south London punctuated by shots of Stormzy rapping along to excerpts of his debut album Gang Signs & Prayer in a sun-drenched, pastel-hued location in Spain.

Bryony Stone — 27 September 2017
Work / Film Oscar Hudson on channeling the polite awkwardness of lifts for Radiohead's latest video

Inventive director Oscar Hudson has directed the latest Radiohead video for Lift produced by Pulse Films. The track was originally a B-Side recorded during the OK Computer sessions and unreleased until 2017 on the 20-year anniversary release of the album OKNOTOK 1997 2017 .

Lucy Bourton — 13 September 2017
Work / Photography Bompas & Parr create Man vs Gut - an exploration of the relationship between humans and hunger

Bompas and Parr has created a short film and series of photographs in collaboration with Addie Chinn that explore the relationship between humans and hunger. Man vs Gut records the stomach grumbles and rumbles of a host of subjects who had been asked to fast for 10 days before the shoot. “The project captures the sensations of pleasure when each participant took their first bite, how their hands guided food into their mouth and what emotions were felt during those moments of anticipation, joy and relief,” say the duo.

Owen Pritchard — 25 August 2017