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2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

“I see my work currently as photo-collage meets editorial illustration,” Mark Harris says, whose distinctive style of image crafting, mark making, and texture has been utilised by the likes of The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, New York Magazine and Pentagram – to name but a few. Mark’s road to his signature style, however, is as assorted and eclectic as the work itself.

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

Muna, from writer and director Warda Mohamed, is a short film that follows a British-Somali teenager mourning a family member she’s never met. Engaging with themes of dislocation, ambition and connection, the drama is now available on BBC iPlayer in the UK, much to the delight of the designer and visual artist Suzy Chan, who crafted the film’s distinctive, calligraphic titles. “In the projects introduction, they mentioned that Somalis are rarely portrayed correctly on screen,” says Suzy.

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

When setting foot into the seafront galleries of the Turner Contemporary’s exhibition Resistance, you might anticipate rooms full of images of people pushing placards high up to the sky. In any photo documentary exhibition on a history of protest, this is a likely occurrence; but in the context of twentieth-century Britain, it’s far from all that’s in store.

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Harry Bennett

Ikuo Ueda, known under the moniker Typon, is a Japanese graphic artist who champions, explores and progresses the movements of Constructivism and the Bauhaus. “My work embodies the concept of a nostalgic future, where the past and the future blend seamlessly into the present moment,” Ikuo says. This interplay – and at times conflict – of visual tone and movement manifests in the contrast between graphic form and texture; expressive digital shapes use a scanned paper texture as their foundation.

2 weeks ago | itsnicethat.com | Ellis Tree

Since we last caught up with Bjørn Hegardt, editor of Fukt – the magazine dedicated to contemporary drawing – the publication has seen four new issues, each surrounding a different theme: Storylines, Faces, The Unknown and most recently for, Fukt 22, The Nature Issue. With each new title comes a renewed celebration of the power and versatility of the discipline – a pathway to “open up new angles on what drawing could be today”.