Recipes for the future of branding | Koto

For our final talk of March’s Nicer Tuesdays Sam Howard and Dylan Young of Koto London took us behind the scenes of Seasoned; an initiative the studio started cooking up in 2023 to help up and coming creatives get into the industry. The pair walked us through the design process for the platform and how they ended up creating a series of interactive guides inspired by the bold, no-nonsense style of 70s cookbooks, to demystify the art of branding....

Anarchism, Ubers and ghosts: The book on being an artist under capitalism | The White Pube

Co-founder of The White Pube Zarina Muhammad took to the Nicer Tuesdays stage to outline the narrative behind the duo’s debut book Poor Artists – a story about making art under capitalism. The writer and art critic gave us an insight into the start of their collaborative identity under The White Pube, and how this led them to the making of a Penguin-published book. https://thewhitepube.co.uk/ h...

Following the flow state and pursuing creativity that speaks to the soul | Stella Murphy

The illustrator and cartoonist took the Nicer Tuesdays audience through the development of her vibrant psychedelic style. From her early beginnings in graphic design and recent editorial briefs for the likes of The New York Times, to how she’s managed to develop a practice of “natural, flowing and unfolding creativity” that transcends the algorithms. https://www.itsnicethat.com/nicer-tuesdays ...

Crossing the world of grime with model railways for Jme | Will Norman

At March’s Nicer Tuesdays, the filmmaker and director talked us through the process behind his video for Jme’s track TMNT, which saw a miniature version of the grime artist take over a tiny model train village replica of London. Walking us though some of the city’s iconic grime history at table top scale with a lot of train puns along the way, Will delved into all the tiny details that built up the ingenious short...