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The illustrator takes cues from Tenobe glass, a traditional hand-stretched material made by craftsmen in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

CBC Books has announced its writers to watch list! Here are 30 Canadian writers on the rise in 2022.

To close his guest editorship of It’s Nice That, Richard Turley offers his final points of guidance to navigate the messy map of the creative industry.

Favouring a hand-drawn aesthetic, the Melbourne-based creative wants her musical designs to evoke the sensation of sound waves.

It’s Nice That is partnering with The Conran Shop to present Meet Me in the Metaverse, an immersive installation taking over the design store’s Chelsea location. Inviting a global set of artists to reimagine design classics from The Conran Shop’s AW22 collection, Meet Me in the Metaverse will see the digital and physical collide in a playful exploration of design’s role in an intriguing new virtual world.

As part of his guest edit of It’s Nice That, Richard Turley anonymously interviews creatives of all roles to offer an honest report of working in our industry today. This first part features a junior designer, producer and studio owner. Further interviews will be published next week.

If designers are merely tasked with creating the pastiche and repetitive, maybe it’s for the best if the whole process gets automated.

Over the next two weeks graphic designer and creative director Richard Turley joins us as It’s Nice That’s guest editor. Across a series of articles commissioned by Richard, we’ll survey current processes across the design industry, contemplate future structures – from DAOs to client relationships – and offer a range of unexpected inspiration too.

During the early ‘90s a group of artists, designers and musicians formed a collective studio, known only as tomato. In the years that followed, their experimental design approach led to era-defining work – always placing the process first.

Basic and adaptable, Ghost is a critical albeit humorous adaptation of the previously “stale” humanist sans.