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16 years since the duo’s last onscreen adventure, Wallace & Gromit will be back on our TVs this Christmas. Here, we speak to its creator and director Nick Park, co-director Merlin Crossingham and supervising animator Will Becher to take a look at the legacy of the adored animation.
The Sharp Type rebirth: what’s next for Lucas Sharp and Chantra …
Oct 8, 2024 · EG: One thing I find unique about type as an industry, at least compared to other fields within design, is how much longer the timelines are in type. The time needed to make a poster might only be days, or to make a brand identity, maybe multiple months, but developing a typeface almost always takes multiple years – and of course, in the case of revivals, that timescale gets even larger if ...
Illustration - It's Nice That
From comics to editorial spots, hand-drawn to digital, 2D to 3D, here we showcase fantastic illustrators and their inspiring work...
“Every tiny, mundane experience is cosmic”: Visual artist Ilka …
Nov 20, 2024 · Working between graphic design and illustration, Ilka Gilvesy occupies an intriguing, unconventional space. She combines and challenges mediums, methods and messages, resulting in a portfolio that is, above all else, tactile.
Game changers: the designers innovating graphics for sports - It's …
Jan 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 ...
What sort of designer should I be? - itsnicethat.com
Sep 16, 2024 · Working for a studio. Echoing Katie Cadwell in It’s Nice That’s latest Creative Career Conundrum, the beauty of working at a studio means you can apply your creativity to an array of problems.Often, studios have a close-knit, collaborative atmosphere with more opportunities for artistic expression and experimentation, plus the ability to …
Exploring the rise, and evolution, of analogue design techniques
Jan 8, 2024 · When Sydney-based Studio Chenchen began working on the identity for Stappa wine, they knew the project had to celebrate the brand’s love ‘for craft and quality’. Learnings about grapes, soil and seasons led the team to the elemental beauty of charcoal – its texture and metaphorical links to Australian soil were compelling, as was its symbolic relationship with Stappa’s steering ...
The creators of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared offer us a glimpse …
Sep 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 ...
POV: Cinema isn’t dying; we’re Letterboxd list-makers now
Aug 8, 2024 · Hester is a British journalist based in Athens, and the voice behind Cinemagoer, a brilliant new platform that interviews industry figureheads and catalogues some of the world’s finest cinemas.“I think the cinemas that are really thriving now are the ones that have thought carefully about ways in which they can go above and beyond,” says Hester.
Neale Johnston’s graphic design work is at one with Berlin’s …
Aug 7, 2024 · Ellis Tree (she/her) joined It’s Nice That as a junior writer in April 2024 after graduating from Kingston School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design.