It's Nice That

It’s Nice That is dedicated to the idea that everyone can find creative inspiration. By highlighting the most captivating and innovative projects online, in print, and through various events, we aim to make this creative world accessible to as many people as possible. Established in 2007, It’s Nice That has expanded across multiple platforms, attracting over half a million readers each month. Our offerings include a daily-updated website, a bi-annual magazine called Printed Pages, an annual summer symposium named Here, and the monthly Nicer Tuesdays talk series. In addition to showcasing inspiring work, we leverage our creative expertise to assist brands in effectively conveying their messages to our audience and beyond through our creative agency, INT Works.

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Ned Elliott’s delicate works celebrate the cosmic beauty of love, grief and death

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.
“A pre-internet era of devotion”: The book immortalising the lost art of fan-made record sleeves

1 week ago | itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley

A few years ago, Dominique Russell’s dad, Kevan Russell, handed her two 45-inch record sleeves, one for the punk legends Sex Pistols, and another for rock royalty T. Rex. He’d uncovered them at his place of work – the Essex record shop, Crazy Beat – but they weren’t just any old record sleeve. They were fan-made relics, yellowing pieces of paper held together by Sellotape and adorned with collaged images and felt-tip pen drawings.
Lumon is Listening: animator Michael Granberry breaks down THAT scene in Severance

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.
Josh Greet is reenergising sports photography by injecting it with sci-fi and folk horror visuals

1 week ago | itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley

In one of Josh Greet’s recent photos, a runner is shown ploughing through the rain. Nearly entirely in shadow, the athlete’s face and features aren’t visible – it’s only possible to make out the outline of his body and running gear. A bright white light emanates from the ground up, illuminating the foliage, the runner’s legs and the spots of rain that litter the sky. Not only a striking standalone image, the shot perfectly encapsulates the photographer’s unique practice.
How Eliott Grunewald’s foundry OTT signals a shift in the creative industry

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.
Bond’s typeface for the Finnish football league is based on the shape and movement of fan scarfs

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.
Dinamo turns Stefan Marx’s handwriting into a font

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley

When it was announced that Stefan Marx and Dinamo had collaborated on a typeface, a recent ex-INT team member sent us a message saying “we’ve been waiting for this to happen”. Both hugely popular in their own right, the work of the artist and the type design studio do seem to have been plucked from the same creative pool. “The most obvious connection is that the written word – typography, language – is at the centre of both our practices,” says Dinamo co-founder Johannes Breyer.
Puppets, portals and a big ol’ snake: enter Chrissie Abbott’s weird world for French x Element’s collab

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.
Companion-Platform’s variable logo for Uncommon Fruits changes with the seasons

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley

Uncommon Fruits is a collaborative, two-year initiative that investigates the existence of fruit trees, abandoned orchards and old fruit varieties, all through the lens of art and design. Devised by the Robida Collective, based in Topolò, Italy, the project is a means of forging a deeper connection between the creative world and the natural world, all the while supporting knowledge of edible ecology and the collective’s local surroundings.
Pomp! Jody Evans photographs the raucous drag event that always gets a little messy

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley

While 17 seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race may have us all believing that that drag is simply about tucking, cinching and lip syncing, there’s a whole world of the artform out there paying homage to the messy, subversive and slapstick roots of the subculture. Take Pomp! for example, a raucous cabaret night where you can expect characters as varied as a carnivorous pig, a lonely fridge and a blue alien with three tits, to name but a few. The photographer Jody Evans is a long-term fan of Pomp!.