As a designer, the ability to create things which adapt over time can inject an energy and longevity to your work like nothing else. It’s an approach which graphic design and programming duo – and couple – Carla Peer and Karlis Krecers endeavour to bring to every project under their pseudonym Carla and Karlis. Having met while studying at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the pair are now based in Zürich and are “drawn towards structures and bringing order to things”.
In the two short years since we last spoke to Belgium-born and now Suffolk-based Stevie Dix, the artist’s unconstrained works encouraging spontaneity have piqued the interest of both the art and design community. As a result, Stevie is currently exhibiting her largest solo show to date, The Devil’s In The Details, at L21 gallery in Mallorca.
It’s Nice That is heading to New York! We’ve teamed up with website-building platform Wix and are all set to host a very special event in the company’s Wix Playground space in Chelsea: an evening focused on design in the digital age. Join us on Thursday 17 January for an inspirational evening packed with great creative work and lively conversation. Click here to sign up for your free ticket.
Retail giant Tesco celebrates its 100th birthday this year, and to toast its centenary its produced a series of short films tracing the supermarket’s origins from market stall to its multi-storey megastores that run up and down the UK.
In the words of Noddy Holder, it’s (nearly) Christmas, which means everyone here at It’s Nice That is gearing up for a week or two away from their laptops. Now’s the perfect time to reflect on creativity flourished in yet another turbulent 12 months on a topsy-turvy planet.
It’s been a long year, hasn’t it? And your eyes are tired, aren’t they? We can help. Why not soothe those sore lids by taking a visual stroll down recent-memory lane with 25 of our most read photography pieces of 2018? From KangHee Kim’s satisfyingly shimmering images of celestial streetlamps to Sam Gregg’s gloriously vivid snapshots of life in sun-soaked Naples, all of life this year gone is here.
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Joining us at November’s Nicer Tuesdays was photographer Francesca Allen, a creative who has had a fast-paced career full of memorable moments, of which she creates just as many behind the camera as she does in front of it.
OCD sufferers are not happy with the new Christmas decorations on the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. The tunnel is one of the busiest ways into America’s most famous city, New York. It journeys under the Hudson River, connecting Manhattan with Jersey City, aiding many citizen’s daily commute in and out of the big apple.
Last Friday (30 November 2018) pop star Ariana Grande released the much anticipated video for thank u, next. The track has just spent its fourth week at the top of the UK’s single music charts, the longest time at #1 for a female artist in 2018.
Well would you believe it, it’s the 1st of December. And as is tradition here at It’s Nice That at the beginning of each month, we’ve pulled together our team’s top picks of exhibitions and events to check out throughout the coming weeks.
