It's Nice That
WEBWhen creating the visual identities for “non-Western” food brands, designers face a daunting challenge: go more generic and risk cultural appropriation, or go too niche and lose out on the opportunity to reach a broader market. Designers can often struggle to thread the cultural needle, but a commitment to research, communication and ...
Covering beauty, masculinity and reproductive justice – Polyester ...
WEBNov 12, 2019 · “In many ways, Polyester has been my whole adult life, but it feels equally like I started the publication yesterday and everything is still really new,” says Ione Gamble, founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. Having launched in 2014, the zine has since grown from cult to movement, signifying a new wave of independent publishing that puts feminism, identity and culture at the helm.
In her illustrations, Jenifer Prince recreates vintage pulp comics as ...
WEBJun 23, 2021 · Funny. “I started to illustrate to express myself, my own feelings and desires,” Jenifer Prince tells It’s Nice That on growing up as a queer adolescent in Brazil. Jenifer’s portfolio is now an impressive pastiche of old pulp comics from the 1940s and 50s, taking its distinct style and morphing it into lesbian love stories of her own ...
“More famous than famous”: Michael Craig-Martin on the …
WEBFeb 6, 2019 · “I started making drawings of individual ordinary objects in 1978 and I’ve been drawing them ever since.” Michael Craig-Martin tells It’s Nice That this as he sits in a swanky central London tearoom ahead of his new show Present Sense in Vero Beach, Florida (which opened at the end of January). There are several critics who would argue that this self-aware statement pretty much sums up ...
The stuff we’re made of: What elevates certain designs to iconic …
WEBFeb 23, 2021 · For her book Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things, author Grace Lees-Maffei boiled down what makes a design iconic into a checklist of four factors: reception, representation, recognition and reverence. First, “iconicity is in the eye of the beholder,” she tells me, and while many set out to create an icon, “it’ll only be iconic ...
Introducing BRICK, the new hip-hop magazine you'll be seeing a …
WEBMar 13, 2015 · Introducing BRICK, the new hip-hop magazine you'll be seeing a lot more of. Words. Maisie Skidmore. —. 13 March 2015. Work. Publication. There’s no question that BRICK has been the attraction of choice in the It’s Nice That studio this week. Its fluorescent green logotype and Wiz Khalifa’s fixing gaze on the cover combine to act like ...
“I don’t care what people think. As artists, we have to express ...
WEBJun 29, 2021 · YI: I came across your work in 2009. I was writing my dissertation on the topic of West African fabrics, Dutch wax prints in particular, on how it’s used in communities as a form of identity, of celebrating one’s culture.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will be world’s largest public ...
WEBJul 29, 2020 · Quentin Blake’s House of Illustration gallery will relocate to a huge renovated windmill and engine house in London’s Islington, as part of an £8 million project to create the world’s largest public arts space dedicated to illustration. Renamed the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the site will become a permanent exhibition space ...
Designing for social justice: What does it mean to create radical ...
WEBMay 25, 2022 · Social and political movements are amongst some of those most renowned for creating ground-breaking designs. From the proliferation of propaganda posters during World War Two, to the ever reworked Che Guevara print and the impactful Silence = Death AIDS poster of the 1980s, a well-designed poster …
The creators of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared offer us a glimpse …
WEBSep 23, 2022 · DHMIS has always juggled numerous creative practices; in the past, the show has merged the likes of live action, claymation, animation and puppetry. The new series is no different. Hugo explains that production for the Channel 4 iteration ran out of a huge studio in Canada Water, with two live-action units led by Joe and Becky, another stop-motion unit on the sidelines and then “afterwards ...