Sashay! Shantay! Down the art and design catwalk that is The Weekender!

It’s been a busy old week at It’s Nice That towers, with Rob jetting about in Africa for Design Indaba, Maisie out in Brazil, and James dipping his paddling toes into Margate. But for us left here, home soil hasn’t seemed so dreary thanks to the wealth of wonderful art and design news that’s kept us entertained over the last week. Have a look at our best bits, and the other multifarious goings on in the creative world below.

– Geoff McFetridge has built an ocean-going bike AND he’s made a making-of video to boot, so we can all languish in our general inability to work with our hands whilst watching Geoff being humble and able.

– Recently Rejected is a home for unfinished and rejected ideas, it’s been getting so much love this week that the creatives featured should feel anything but dejected, take a look.

– Éloïsa Pérez has come up with a great solution to make learning to write easier and loads more fun. Her bright geometric tools are being used by a highly qualified focus group of three to four year-olds. Cool.

– Designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox gave us a tour of his bookshelf, which seems to be packed with books in languages he doesn’t understand. We can all relate to that.

– If you need some visual tips for how to goof and laze around over the next couple of days, take a look at Misia Schmidt’s ink drawings. These girls have got it down.

– This week we’ve been continuing the Workwear feature and on Monday we spoke to designer Sonya Dyakova. Sonya told us about her “uniform,” her favourite boots that are just that little bit too big for her and how, no matter how she tries, she can’t help returning to clean lines and comfort. Just like the rest of us then.

– Way out on the other end of the scale is Simon Whybray, who has the revolutionary outlook that rather than dressing for the weather you have, dress for the weather you want. That’s the kind of advice I can get on board with.

– Finally, animator Jack Cunningham extolled the value of spending a bit of cash on clothes that will keep you alive in a cold environment, couldn’t agree more.

– We spoke to architect Yener Torum about his photographs of bright and brash buildings across Istanbul, and what it’s like finding a new perspective on such a widely-recorded city.

– Boyhood stills photographer Matt Lankes spoke to us about “keeping it weird” in Austin and recording the vast passage of time covered in Linklater’s film.

– of Montreal art director David Barnes chatted with us about making the things that god decided not to and the importance of trusting ten-year-olds.

– We asked Iain R. Webb to take us through his recently published archive of fashion show invites. Highlights included a badger mask, a cassette and a set of keys.

– Apple has launched the emoji skin modifier with five tones based on a dermatology standard scale. So now when words just won’t cut it, you can be both expressive and racially-specific.

– We covered public artwork London is Changing earlier this week, over on The Guardian Francesca Perry wrote up a selection of responses from Guardian readers on the subject of leaving, or moving to London.

– In case you hadn’t noticed, London Fashion Week just happened! I know, just like that. Illustrator Paul Wagenblast has made a bunch of helpful GIFs summarising some of the key collections.

– I remember the 1997 BRIT Awards ceremony when the Spice Girls opened the show. Ben Elton presented, Trainspotting won Best Soundtrack, The Fugees and Skunk Anansie performed and Mel C threatened Liam Gallagher. The glory days.

This year, Madonna fell over. Whoops! Alice Vincent, entertainment writer over the The Telegraph has pinpointed nine terrible things that happened at this years awards. Thanks Alice!

Billie Muraben

Verso Books tweeted this picture yesterday. Usually I try my hardest to be fully against funny pictures of animals because y’know, they eat away at our intelligence and all that. But also, animals are great, particularly dogs, excited, smiling dogs. The fact that this picture was brought into my life by a publisher who makes some of the most intelligent and well-designed books ever also just totally validates it. Thanks Verso.

James Cartwright

Here at It’s Nice That we love to draw penises. We draw them in birthday cards for our colleagues, on important documents and on post it notes that we stick to people’s faces. It’s a compulsion, and it might be an actual psychological condition, but we can’t get enough of dick drawings. So we were THRILLED to discover that there are people out there who share our excitement equally. Pecker is a site that aims to collect as many dong doodles as possible from members of the public, amassing a museum of members online. So get submitting and revel in the satisfaction of contributing to an important anthropological archive that future generations will look back on in wonder.

Liv Siddall

It’s a universal truth that if you are in your mid-twenties or above, chances are your mum struggles with her phone at the best of times. With this in mind, this is the best prank I’ve seen since the quickly! Hold my broom! gag a few years back. Perfect.