Harry Bennett

1 week ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

The artist Ned Elliot definines his creative philosophy quite simply: “drawing is just my rather feeble attempt to grasp the endless unknown!”. Across his tangible practice, where he delves into the multiplicity and abstraction of everyday existence, Ned reveals the cycles of life with one foot in the stars and another foot firmly on the ground.

1 week ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

In the second series of Severance, a particular scene jumped out to us. Back from their coup, the Macrodata refinement team are herded into a room for HR to show them a video, a stop motion film featuring Mark, Helly, and gang as puppets. Lumon is Listening quickly became a fan-favourite scene, an enthralling, wildly satisfying and unexpected creative choice, the irreverence and oddity of which faithfully served the show.

1 week ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

We last spoke to Eliott Grunewald half a decade ago, and since then, quite a lot has changed for the type designer; he’s seen the birth of his foundry, Ornamental & Title Type. “Back then [in 2020], I was starting to expand my typeface catalogue after a period where I was mainly working on custom commissions,” Eliott says. “I enjoyed the diversity of those collaborations; I had the chance to work with inspiring people who were leading amazing initiatives,” he continues.

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

Rebranding Finland’s top professional football league, Veikkausliiga, sounds daunting on paper. But, for the Helsinki-based studio Bond, there was an evident route in: the fans. “The tone of the brand is rooted in emotion,” Bond’s chief design officer and founder Jesper Bange says, “it reflects passion, unity, and pride.” Built to translate this cacophony of intense emotions, which, aesthetically, could feel somewhat scattershot, Bond opted for an altogether more architectural approach.

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

The London-based designer, creative director and illustrator Chrissie Abbott has worked with her husband a lot over the years, but this may just be their greatest collaboration yet. Already privy to the inside knowledge that French – her husband’s fashion label – and Element were co-designing a collaborative collection, Chrissie was brought on board to design its campaign, culminating in an eccentric, oh-so-odd and wildly engrossing mixed-media film series.