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We invite four illustrators and designers to reveal their prehistory, sharing artworks they created as children and teenagers, and talking us through their early relationships to creativity.

The foundry’s founder Lucas Descroix takes a multi-faceted approach when designing classic and abstract letterforms.

Whether you’re a Nicer Tuesdays regular or looking to come to your first event, read on to learn about our refreshed format and how February and March’s talks went down.

When compiling Global Type, our directory of 100 independent foundries around the world, the imbalance of female leadership became immediately clear. In this extract of our report, we sit down with three practitioners to discuss why this divide is still present.

It’s Nice That’s Insights Report are developed by It’s Nice That’s Creative Insights team, a new department that carries out research and analyses visual trends in the creative world. This team will be releasing downloadable reports throughout the year, so keep an eye out for more over the coming months.To learn more about how our Creative Insights department can support you and your creative goals, get in touch here.

Following a background in painting, the Leipzig-based designer now sees his posters as an ever-changing canvas that can “form and evolve”.

Our second Insights Report presents an around-the-world trip via type design, featuring 100 emerging and more established independent foundries and designers.

This “multi-layered” typeface is one for all interior design lovers.

The Los Angeles-based sculptor and animator – aka the “clay scientist" – has a unique point of view which creates incredibly fun pieces.

In collaboration with Worth Your While, the open-source tool helps users talk about sex on social media, without slipping up on community guidelines.