Dropbox x Nicer Tuesdays Monthly Poster

For illustrators Marion Deuchars and Anna Kövecses, the month of March marks two significant events: the arrival of spring, and International Women’s Day. So for their collaborative poster, commissioned by Dropbox and It’s Nice That, the pair elected to channel both themes in one vibrant and poignant image. The collaboration evolved entirely over the platform of Dropbox Paper, and will be printed and given out at Nicer Tuesdays in March.

This month, two overtly distinctive and equally respected creatives worked together – for the first time – on our Dropbox collaborative poster, and the results are as fizzing with energy as you might expect. Given the simple brief to depict February, illustrators Bráulio Amado and Jordy van den Nieuwendijk chose to focus on Carnival, with each creative bringing their own signature style together in a clever way that means each Nicer Tuesdays attendee will get two posters in one. The final print will be given away to every Nicer Tuesdays attendee on 20 February collaboratively via Dropbox Paper, the two quickly agreed on the Carnival theme and its inherent potential. “Shall we go nuts on compositions and colour palettes?” asked Jordy. You can guess the answer to that question. “It would be fun to do a bunch of people in weird costumes, some by me, some by you, the end product being a Carnival mosh pit,” said Bráulio.

You’d be forgiven for presuming the debauchery of New Year’s Eve was a contemporary invention, but in fact this widely celebrated excuse to let loose dates back to medieval times. The Feast of Fools, illustrator Sophy Hollington explains, was a medieval New Year festival celebrated around Europe on 1 January until it was eradicated by the church in the 1600s, and it’s this day of decadence that provided ample visual inspiration for the Dropbox collaborative poster for January’s Nicer Tuesdays.