The Weekend With Claire Marie Healy
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Mestiza Studio built this play cafe brand like a game, fusing aesthetics to appeal to all ages
The brand for Canica combines constructivist geometry with expressive illustration, creating a visual world that’s fun but not too childish.
Bea Korsch’s Intrusive Thots is an explosive zine about depression, treatment and recovery
Made during a year-long outpatient programme, the experimental comic combines drawings, journals, ephemera and text messages to document the artist’s turbulent inner world.
‘Foodie’ culture is exclusionary – these creative cookbooks are offering an alternative
For Disabled people and those living with chronic illness, cooking can be a tricky and arduous task, but this is something often ignored in mainstream foodie culture – typically led by trends, fads and style over substance. Here, Kieran Yates spotlights the cookbooks challenging this fact, and argues creatives have the power to change the way we think (and eat).
Logos and glyphs grow out of agar and grapevines in Emi Takahashi’s graphic explorations of living forms
The more-than-human world comes alive in the designers visual translations of natures hidden patterns.
Joe Hart captures the surreal, gnarly energy of lucha libre by getting bravely close to the action
Aiming to do justice in portraying the world of Mexico’s real-life superhero wrestlers, this photographer gets stuck in, no matter the peril.
Templo’s visual identity for DeafCity Hub is a fusion of creative coding, British sign language and gestural motion capture
Aiming to move beyond the spoken word, Templo teams up with DeafCity Hub to create purpose-driven campaign visuals that centre and celebrate Deaf culture.
Menslies makes experimental posters for China’s club scene that shed grids and look purposely worn in
Over the past ten years, the studio has kept the pulse of China’s clubbing scene alive from the inside, with innovative visuals that always point back to print.
Gary Grimes examines the niche memes and noughties tech-optimism behind Zara Larsson’s visual world
She dominated summer 2026, appearing on stage at nearly 30 festivals across the world, but Zara Larsson’s fame flourished from behind the screen. It’s Nice That’s culture columnist looks at how an audience raised on a much more carefree internet have helped catapult the singer to stardom.
Skincare has never looked so good: Odds’ identity for Alaena strikes a soft balance between science and nature
The creative studio have avoided clinical tropes and brought scientific rigour to the beauty space to tell a new story of slow luxury, rooted in care.
“It’s weirdly helpful to get lost along the way” – how to make a film with John Wilson
The director chats to It’s Nice That about his first feature film, The History of Concrete, and the process by which his comedic explorations of the banal become so beautiful.
“I like to draw pretty things”: Lia Sued C. on trading too much screen-time for tactile illustrations
We touch base with the brilliant illustrator Lia Sued C. on how she moved away from a solely digital practice to refining her skills through physical materials.
“This is just another phase the creative industry will take in its stride”
The discourse surrounding AI feel relentless due to its rate of progress; what’s new-fangled one week is out of date the next. This is particularly worrying when you feel like your career is getting caught in the crossfire. How can you continue to invest in your career when you don’t know what shape it might take? Sharing her two cents is Katie Cadwell, co-founder of branding studio Lucky Dip and The NDA Podcast, in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums.
Nicer Tuesdays London: Get tickets for ManvsMachine, Silvana Trevale, Luci Pina for October’s Nicer Tuesdays!
At October’s event in London, expect talks about photography of Venezuelan youth, high-profile motion design and playful multi-media illustration.
Absolutely bananas! In a new book, 100 artists celebrate the fruit basket’s favourite class clown
Self-funded by Studio Trikken, Banana Art Book includes over 100 banana artworks created by artists from all over the world – from students and emerging illustrators to renowned design studios
Crocs and walking alarm clocks: Alistair Nicholls embraces “pure silliness” in his self-funded claymation
Created between paid commissions, Running Late follows a surreal morning routine populated by stubby-legged alarm clocks and a crocodile that dispenses toothpaste.
Victor Hwang on why we should be updating existing websites rather than making new ones
From the Yellow Pages and Rolodex to the early internet, this web designer is drawing on references from the past to make the sustainable websites of the future.
Marina Willer crafts letters with light and projection for BFI London Film Festival’s new identity and campaign
In an age of streaming domination and scattergun viewing habits, how do you pay homage to the slow craft of cinema? The Pentagram partner’s analogue identity for London’s biggest film festival lights the way.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on Szilveszter Makó and the commercial appeal of the auteur
Szilveszter Makó’s surreal portraits have become nearly as recognisable as the celebrities he photographs. Our US editor-at-large considers what subjects bring to a signature style – and what happens when a point of view can be commissioned on demand.
A Ntsal identity uses the nonlinear timeline of films to inspire its expressive and compressive motion
The Cairo-based studio gives the film festival’s 18th edition a custom typeface and a shifting visual language that echoes the way events interlink across a narrative.
The mascots, design and visual history of Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that puts functionality above aesthetics
Who actually makes Wikipedia? It’s Nice That speaks to the creatives behind, in-front and all around the greatest internet database, the site where every single human is the target audience.
Hunter Harvey’s “text paintings” are graphic parodies where the typeface is the main character
A mix between bumper stickers, overheard conversations, billboards and Microsoft Powerpoint graphics, these unique paintings seem straight to the point, but conceal hidden meanings about the aesthetic functions of type design.
40 filmmakers, 25 countries: Super Nature is an epic ode to the animal kingdom and natural world told through Super 8 film stock
Never mind shooting a couple of minutes on Super 8 film stock, how about a whole feature-length film? Super Nature, an act of love and labour by Ed Sayers, is here to not only show off the beauty of analogue filmmaking, but the wonders of our natural world.
Sylvan Hillebrand gives a 125-year-old oil paint company a contemporary refresh
Rembrandt wanted to move away from a “traditional, slightly dusty expression of craftsmanship” to an identity that feels more relevant to a younger generation of serious artists.
“Grunt work is a right of passage”
At work, we all have to do things we don’t love. That’s just the way it goes. But what happens when the fun stuff is really few and far between? What if your employer doesn’t appreciate your talents? Katie Cadwell, co-founder of branding studio Lucky Dip and The NDA Podcast, shares her thoughts in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums.
How retro branding is bringing warmth and fun to São Paulo’s bars and restaurants
Our São Paulo correspondent outlines the references, details and techniques being deployed by Brazilian design studios to bring playfulness and nostalgia to the city’s streets.
The Weekend With Can Can Press
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The Weekend With anaiis
The French-Senegalese singer let us in on whats been pouring into her gentle soul and R&B tracks while we pick her brains for what you should get up to on your next day off.
“Fundamentally wrong, but also perfectly right”: Jonas Sprattland’s videos for Nike and Balenciaga play with space, motion and form
The artist moulds his footage through a combination of videography, custom digital tools, and DIY programming.
Why making the real thing still holds its magic: Isabel + Helen on a decade of putting impossible inventions into motion
As their Motion Sickness show opens at The Conran Shop for LDF, we catch up with the pair on their continued fascination with the mechanics of things, to uncover just how they have pulled off so many breathtaking projects – from larger-than-life kinetic sculptures to wearable Power Suits.
Kristina Rozhkova turned her experience of being imprisoned into a stunningly brutal photo book about captivity and cruelty (NSFW)
Kristina Rozhkova was held captive by the Russian state, but it only amplified her art. Turning the camera on animal farms, BDSM communities, taxidermy and performance artists for her photo project Gut Feeling, she explores what it means to be detained and imprisoned.
Is this font peak? Pangram Pangram’s Neue Gstaad is a mountainous homage to Swiss excellence
With a total 112 styles, this extremely flexible typeface really is Pangram Pangram’s Swiss army knife, joining an impressive, geographically-inspired portfolio.
Fossils of youth: Philip Lindeman’s papier-mâché caps are a tribute to skateboarding and American advertising
With a childhood filled with sports team insignias, logos and graffiti tags, this multi-media artist steps away from editorial illustration to bring his personal world into a physical reality.