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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The furniture designers centring Nigerian cultural symbols

2 days ago | itsnicethat.com | Ugonna-Ora Owoh

For three years, a peculiar pivot has happened within Nigeria’s burgeoning design culture – a trend of designers, both emerging and established, looking to the zeitgeist of 70s-90s, or even pre-colonial Nigeria, for inspiration.
Anna Mills bespoke lettering for musicians balances rough edges, offbeat kerning, ink bleeds and wobbly lines

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Olivia Hingley

Over the past few years, Anna Mills has carved herself a bit of a niche creating bespoke lettering for musicians – the likes of Wolf Alice, Mel C, Biig Piig and Orla Gartland, to name just a few. In Anna’s words this is down to “lucky timing”; the fact that visuals in the music industry – in the hyper-digitised face of AI – have seen a “resurgence of analogue styles”. This, overall, has proved pretty useful for Anna as she admits she’s “not really that techy”.
Frontify Future’s bespoke typeface champions the kinetic future of branding

3 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

As the cultural landscape shifts, and expectations, tropes and sensibilities move with it, the impact that brands have on their audiences are bound to as well. That’s why brand management tool Frontify has launched Frontify Futures, a platform exploring how brands are due to evolve, both in a practical sense – how they’re built – and how they are interacted with.
Dexter McLean’s series gives voice to the “forgotten” members of Jamaican society

3 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

We last spoke to photographer Dexter McLean in 2022, not long after he’d graduated. However, after leaving university, where he spent more time alone and not alongside his contemporaries, he sensed a shift. “I felt a lot had changed, and I didn’t feel I had the same drive I once had for photography,” Dexter says. That was until he left London. “My recent trip to Jamaica, I think, has re-sparked my love for photography,” he continues.
New Views: what do Gen Z think about the future of the creative industry?

3 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Jenny Brewer

Four Gen Z creatives share their candid opinions on how it feels to be entering the creative industry at this tumultuous point in time, and how it looks from their perspective. Applications are currently open for It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch – a talent showcase championing the next generation of creatives. To mark the occasion, we’re publishing a series of articles exploring what it means to be a creative starting out today. In this piece, we hand the mic to those very people...
Tristan Huschke’s poster practice is an antidote to artistic elitism

3 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

The designer and animator Tristan Huschke began his creative journey not with design, but with painting. He studied for a degree in fine art working solely with oil on canvas; “during that time, I not only learned a lot about technique but also about the creative process,” Tristan says.
Ned Elliott’s delicate works celebrate the cosmic beauty of love, grief and death

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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 month 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.