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WEBWhen creating the visual identities for “non-Western” food brands, designers face a daunting challenge: go more generic and risk cultural appropriation, or go too niche and lose out on the opportunity to reach a broader market.
In her illustrations, Jenifer Prince recreates vintage pulp comics as ...
WEBJun 23, 2021 — São Paulo-based illustrator Jenifer Prince on the longing for queer nostalgia, and reimagining lesbian love stories in a historical genre that shuns it.
Illustration - It's Nice That
WEBFrom comics to editorial spots, hand-drawn to digital, 2D to 3D, here we showcase fantastic illustrators and their inspiring work...
The creators of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared offer us a glimpse …
WEBSep 23, 2022 — DHMIS has always juggled numerous creative practices; in the past, the show has merged the likes of live action, claymation, animation and puppetry. The new series is no different. Hugo explains that production for the Channel 4 iteration ran out of a huge studio in Canada Water, with two live-action units led by Joe and Becky, another stop-motion unit on the sidelines and then “afterwards ...
How The Guardian designed its thoughtful new long-form mag
WEBNov 10, 2023 — Long Read also holds onto its links to reportage as well to its master brand. “We at The Guardian have a rich history dating back over 200 years, and we would be remiss not to dive into that when starting a new print product,” says Chris.. Chris and Bruno have revived an old Guardian typeface for Long Read, Mercury – a “beautiful, spiky, authoritative” number, found mostly in The ...
Animation - It's Nice That
WEBAug 27, 2024 — From stop-motion to claymation and all techniques in between, explore our archive of animation projects...
Five designers making remarkable music posters - It's Nice That
WEBJun 22, 2022 — Studio Haramat. A lover of electronic music and the dancefloor, one-person studio Studio Haramat says the experience always “feels even more special when I’m the one designing the flyer.” Mohamed Moustafa Farid sits behind the wheel of Studio Haramat, running the design practice from his home in Denver, where he has forged close relationships with the capital’s DJs.
Drawn in the dock: the story of courtroom illustration - It's Nice That
WEBApr 6, 2020 — “Priscilla’s drawings show movement, and the white pastel outlines are almost like caricatures,” comments the House of Illustration’s Katie McCurrach, who is curating the gallery’s upcoming show exploring illustration in the criminal justice system, Forensic Art: Illustrating Justice (due to open 22 May, or later in the year if …
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - It's Nice That
WEBMay 2, 2016 — Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared – the series of web shorts created by Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling – has been viewed over 30 million times, spawned countless fan theories, inspired a fashion line, and generally amused and confused anyone who has watched it. Throughout six episodes we have watched the protagonists, known only as Duck, Red Guy and Yellow Guy, learn about time, the internet ...
Game changers: the designers innovating graphics for sports - It's …
WEBJan 8, 2024 — In 2023, Nomad Studio took a bold stance when redesigning the Premier League logo after nine seasons of collaboration. The approach was “radical simplification” to create “sharper cut-through and maximum impact” – including making the League’s famous lion a standalone icon removed from its wordmark, to emphasise its importance and look at the overall brand design in a way that’s ...