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1 week ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
An illustrator who’s had a resounding impact on the children’s book landscape, Helen Oxenbury came to the profession somewhat by chance and necessity. Here, she reflects on six decades of work and shares her advice on creating for kids, with authenticity. If you’re based in the UK and you’ve got a child, or, you yourself were once a child, there’s a very good chance you’ve held in your hands a book that Helen Oxenbury has illustrated.
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2 weeks ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
Growing up in the Bath and Bristol area as a “gothy alt-kid”, the photographer Felicity Ingram has been obsessed with music, festivals, clubbing and raving for as long as she can remember. It is no surprise, therefore, that her first book focuses on nightlife (or, early-hours-life) subculture.
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3 weeks ago | 
itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley
As contract renewals in football go, they don’t tend to be the most engaging or creative content. You can typically expect an Instagram grid picture of the player signing a piece of paper, or, if you’re lucky, you might be treated to a short interview, with some even going entirely under the radar. While a big song and dance is often made of first-time contract signings (which can sometimes get a little out of hand) renewals are much less celebrated.
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1 month 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 month 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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.
