Ellis Tree

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Trancestry celebrates a decade of community collecting at The Museum of Transology

10 hours ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

The Museum of Transology is celebrating ten years of community collecting with a new exhibition: Trancestry. Home to the world’s largest collection of objects representing trans, non-binary and intersex lives, the museum’s archive of artefacts and works has now been displayed in its largest show to date, showcasing 1,000 objects and stories donated by members of the community. This milestone has come at a poignant moment for the museum.
Astrae’s nostalgic campaign for Nike steers clear of sleek sports advertising

10 hours ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

When Jake Kelly, art director at Nike, reached out to the Copenhagen-based branding studio Astrae about an upcoming project, his initial email didn’t let much on, founder Carl-Emil Storm tells us. “So, being a lifelong basketball fan, I was very excited when Jake opened the brief with a photo of Ja Morant on the first slide,” he says.
Pavel Ripley’s creative process thrives on “controlled randomness”

2 days ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

Pavel Ripley is one of those creatives who has a bit of a hand in everything. Originally from Russia, the artist, designer and art director is currently based in Portugal and works across a variety of visual endeavours in art and design. Day-to-day he is one half of the multidisciplinary design studio Odd Works, specialising in creative direction, visual identities, book design, packaging and more, alongside Alex Pushkarev.
Why am I sad? Dana Stirling’s new photobook is a vulnerable search for meaning

1 week ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

Still life isn’t typically a photographic format you’d turn to when wanting to conveying complex emotions. It can often feel as though a human presence is necessary to communicate any personal feelings in photographic form. But with Dana Stirling’s work, this isn’t necessarily the case. For the artist, photography has been a way of “navigating identity, family dynamics, and personal history”, and she’s always found herself turning to the still life form as an effective means to grapple with them.
At Tacabanda studio, design snobbery is out and happy mistakes are in

1 week ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

The designers Margherita Sabbioneda and Barbara Nassisi have been working side by side ever since they met. Their friendship, – “because we’re best friends above all”, says Barbara – started out when the pair met working at a small studio in London, “which we kind of became the antithesis of”, she continues.
In Requena Office’s identity for Garden Pizza, words look like plants and letters like flowers

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

This year Requena Office is celebrating its tenth anniversary. To mark the occasion, the team is going to throw a party with “a lot of French cheese and toast with Catalan Cava”, creative director Andrès Requena tells us, and we’re just a little bit sad that we can’t get to Barcelona in time to join. The studio certainly has a lot to toast.
Qualeasha Wood’s tapestries translate digital realms into something “permanent, distorted and tactile”

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

The artist Qualeasha Wood finds inspiration for her intricate woven textiles everywhere in the online world. “Theory, fanfiction, music videos, films, and museum visits all hold equal weight for me”, she tells us.
Sweet Bitter studies the radicchio in an unfolding collage of its forms

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

The photographer Anna-Sophia John often finds herself focusing on the mundane – “picking things out of everyday life” to capture. What drew the London-based creative to the humble leaves of the radicchio for her latest image making venture was a cultural obsession with food becoming “a trend item and a status symbol”, she says.
What does modern basket making look like? Basketclub is a gesture to explore

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

The multidisciplinary artist and designer Adrianus Kundert has been making baskets since 2016 – a completely manual process he was naturally drawn to as a hands on maker. The designer really began to hone in on the craft though in 2020, during lockdown – a moment where everything felt “frozen-in-time”, he says.
Clement Cases’ typeface Base Pixel slowly turns to “trash”

3 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

Since we last caught up with type designer Clement Cases, he’s taken the plunge and “thrown himself into the unknown”, starting freelance life at the end of 2023. “I must have a lucky star looking out for me,” he says, because the designer has been snapped up for all kinds of projects over the last two years. One being his latest custom typeface in collaboration with Base – an open source crypto platform created by Coinbase.