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Date
7 November 2014

You could call it a kind of multivitamin of art and design knowledge, or a injection of irreverence straight to your brain, or you could just refer to it as a creative foodstuff with which to fuel your hangover come Sunday morning. However you like to think of it, welcome to this week’s instalment of the Weekender.

– Dark Igloo are back with an absolutely crazy new video for Giphy, and obviously we love it.

– This week on the Studio Audience podcast we got our teeth into video, talking about Becky & Joe’s magnificent new episode of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and OK Go’s ever expanding music video archive.

– Do you think there’s too much of a gap between design education and the industry? We want to hear your thoughts!

– This week Chaz Bundick of Toro y Moi and Les Sins treated us to a look at his collection of 1970s art and design publications in our Bookshelf feature. Any fan of Storm Thorgerson is alright by us.

– Last week Mike Perry held the fourth in his Get Nude Get Drawn workshops at our studio and this Saturday 8 November we’re holding a show of the resulting images at London’s Proud Archivist. Come on down and join us for a beer!

– This week you went mad for Anthony Burrill’s new project Innocent Targets with Banana & Associates, in which he uses shooting targets to lampoon US gun laws.

– Are you pining for our Back to School feature? You can still check out our archive of in-depth interviews with talented creative types here.

Maisie Skidmore

Fan videos are weird things, aren’t they? It’s never occurred to me to be so into something that I make a tribute to it, but I fully salute the people who find this to be their immediate, most natural response. I came across this fan video for Dolly Parton’s Nine to Five on an article by Oyster Magazine this week and it’s the best collection of obscure 80s clips of women working and owning it in various situations that I’ve ever seen. Here’s to fan videos and the brilliant weirdos who make them!

Emily Gosling

One of the best things I’ve seen and heard this week has to be this incredible song, brought to me by my good friends from the band Xanaxdoo. Not only is it a superbly pathos-laden slab of Italo disco, but the video is amazing – covering cosmic 80s space drawings and a frightened-looking, wide-eyed blue man with images of outer space popping out from a cavity in his strange little head.

Liv Siddall

Of all the phenomenally good content that Radio 4 produce (and my GOD it’s a lot) The Reunion is a somewhat overlooked gem. A little bit like the quietly clever sister of Desert Island Discs, the program reunites people involved in a historic incident around a table for an insightful discussion. Topics range from girl bands of the 1960s, Brit Art, the making-of Life on Earth, to the 1996 World Cup or the tragic Dunblane massacre or Brixton riots. It’s SO good. Sometimes I resent having a job and a social life because it’s hindering me from locking myself in a room and just listening to these on repeat. GO ON Radio 4!

Rob Alderson

Picture the scene dear reader. Tuesday night I was sat at home watching the football (course I was, lad) when the half-time ad break came on. Baffled and bewildered I watched as this spot There’s A Beer For That played out on my big screen (someone’s doing alright). This is not an advert for a particular brand of beer, nope, it’s an advert for beer. General beer. Why? Who doesn’t know about beer? What next – adverts for fields? Bread? Oxygen?

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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