Jyni Ong

Behind the mascot, the poster and kits: How the 1990 Italian World Cup flagged a new era for football

Jyni joined It’s Nice That as an editorial assistant in August 2018 after graduating from The Glasgow School of Art’s Communication Design degree. In March 2019 she became a staff writer and in June 2021, she was made associate editor. Feel free to drop Jyni a note if you have an exciting story for the site.

jo@itsnicethat.com

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Jyni’s top picks from the past couple of month’s

How Annie Wang challenged the conventional expectations of motherhood

How design became socially conscious: Get inspired with Dropbox and The Ulm School of Design’s new digital archive

“It’s a dying art”: Behind the scenes with master Mahjong craftsman Ricky Cheung

“Trucks, guns and Jesus”: Timothy Frazier captures his part of the Virginia Bible Belt

Ramona Jingru Wang asks: “Does the appearance of Asian bodies in an image make it inherently political?”

“Photography is a license to be nosy”: Nina Manandhar discusses her community-based projects Gurkha Sons and Thamesmead

Celebrating her unique aesthetic: Get to know the self-taught graphic designer known as Soft Bwoi

Teenage heartbreak and raw rebellion: Illustrator Juan Vallecillos on how “I feel myself reflected in the female characters I create”

A direct contrast to the usual mise-en-scenes: Toby Zeng on vertical composition photography

“We believe comics can change the world”: Ten Years to Save the World champions the diversity and power of the medium

Environmentally-conscious creatives changing the game

Lunching pandas and conversations with ghosts: 90s anime merges with surrealism in Hand of Umi’s illustrations

Lydia Morrow on ethical fashion and making work at the intersection of neurodivergence, disability and gender

Explore the women of Soviet Art through this carefully curated poster collection

An ode to the dot in typography: MuirMcNeil on the tipping point between legibility and pure abstraction

“Helping to change the world and how we relate to it”: The speculative design project impregnating the earth’s crust with genetically modified chicken remains

Printed on green paper made from algae, this book documents the latest ECAL students’ sustainable projects

High fashion, community, game design and all things Helvetica: October’s Nicer Tuesdays returned to physical life with a bang

“If something is too perfect, we find it disconcerting”: Spencer Fenton on its collaboration with Elizabeth Price

An illustrated guide to cancer by those living through it

Design studio Studio Airport on the importance of collaboration and designing a 400 page publication

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How Gyuri Cloe Lee creates stop-motion effects through digital animation

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