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1 week ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Amiee Byrne is something of a creative polymath – she’s a conceptual art director, stylist and bespoke prop creator. When she moved from Melbourne to LA seven years ago, she added yet another string to her already very full bow: ceramics. But they’re not just any old ceramics.
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1 week ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
At the start of 2025, the Gay Times creative team decided it was high time to launch a new look for the magazine. Its previous design had served them well for nearly a decade, but, as Gay Times art director Jack Rowe says “it’s important to evolve and keep things feeling fresh”. To mark this new era, Jack says the team wanted a commission that would take the first issue in a “bold” and “unexpected” direction – something “a little provocative, a little sexy”.
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1 month ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Drawing inspiration from poetry, religious handouts and vintage tea card sets, the designer creates unusual compositions that she describes as “absurd or whimsy”. —DateThere’s some paths you expect to lead to a career in graphic design, but one that’s perhaps less expected is a degree in English language and linguistics. But that was exactly the precursor to Kate Pritchard’s design studies at Shillington, and now freelance work as a designer and illustrator.
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1 month ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Is this the dream project? The Seattle-based creative studio reveals the research, script scouring and skill that goes into making an opening sequence that gets everyone talking. The White Lotus is the TV series that seems to have everyone and their nan hooked. Premiering its first season back in 2021 with its intriguing death-to-start format and clever dissection of the perils and inequity of luxury tourism, the series reached new heights with its second instalment in 2022.
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1 month ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
If there’s one thing that seems to seep into all corners of gaming development, it’s the dedication to world building. Creating a whole new universe for your players to get lost in, finding beauty and fulfilment in all of its finer details. But this world building was also something the team at Kepler Interactive, the global video game publisher, noticed when they saw the fashion designer Robyn Lynch’s FW23 collection show.
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1 month ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Senegal has a young population, with it reported that half of its inhabitants are under the age of 19. This forms the basis of Moulaye Diarra’s photo series What if we were dreaming…, a poetic and sensitive exploration of the dreams and desires of the youth who live in the country’s bustling capital, Dakar. In a country with such a young demographic, “each young person is creating his or her own destiny,” says Moulaye.
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1 month ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Jean Pierre Consuegra’s portfolio is brimming with some of the most exciting event posters we’ve seen in ages, full of hyper-edited, cut-out photographs, neon hues and Y2k references. It’s likely down to his interesting approach to material and techniques, namely, using “anything at [his] disposal”, like found imagery, and refusing to stick to one style or aesthetic, continually bouncing around. This creative restlessness has recently brought Jean to a new obsession: surveillance UI.
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2 months ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Lucy Ellis’ animations are pretty strange – but it’s exactly this strangeness that makes them so engrossing. Looping images of walking, hopping bodies with enlarged heads (or maybe even a TV in replacement of a head), flashing patterns and shapes that morph before your mind can fully address them, or simply the repeated image of a jar of Hellmann’s mayonnaise, for some reason, it’s hard to pull your eyes away.
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2 months ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
The Brentford Penguins are a football club founded in 2017 for children with Down’s Syndrome and other disabilities – it’s a place for kids to train, play competitive matches, but also socialise and have fun, bringing their family members along for the ride too. Recently, they were snapped in all their sporty glory by the photographer Will Douglas, a fellow football fanatic who wanted to prove that the Penguins were the perfect team for a sporty billboard campaign.
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2 months ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Poan Pan loves people, and he especially loves drawing them. In each of his illustrations you’ll find a figure – or a few – going about their everyday lives, pouring coffee, riding a bike, or playing in a band. Poan gets inspiration for each of his works from his daily sketchbook, which is “filled with observations of human posture”, something Poan views as a “dictionary of ideas”.
