I’m very pleased to give you the first preview of the 4th issue of It’s Nice That. Packed with beautiful content – interviews with Nick Knight, Neville Brody, Miranda July, Trokia, RBG6, Noma Bar and Bompas & Parr, features by Sara De Bondt, Adam Buxton, Adrian Shaughnessy, Jez Burrows, Mike Lemanski, Peter Nencini and Micah Lidberg as well as tons of work from the likes of Michael Landy, Rui Teneiro, Peter Grundy and more – it looks like their best issue so far. And when placing your pre-order before the 30th of September you will receive a free screen print by James Jarvis, commissioned especially for the issue, with your publication. Check their shop for more information >

Every day, for the next 100 days, Vivienne Westwood and Lee Jeans will publish one image of active resistance online. Active Resistance is a project of positive thoughts, active changes, speaking up and being heard. And you can be part of thatli. The images will be selected from your submissions.
As Vivienne Westwood has put it together: “It is not enough to follow world politics, see films and read the prize-winning best seller. This is superficial, you need to go deep in order to understand who you are, what the world is and how things could be better. This involves culture which can only be acquired by self-education: human beings should mirror the world.”
100 days of resistance will start the 8th of september at Lee’s W1 store in London. At the close of 100 days, the 100 chosen images will become a part of a London exhibition, dedicated to the project. Visit www.ar100days.com for more information on how to participate.

I like these little drawings of Aspes motorcycles by Canadian illustrator Brad Allen. So simple, so nice!

Truly amazing work by Stockholm based illustrator Johan Björkegren.

Mon ami Luis Mendo became a returning contributor to Journal de Nîmes with his beautiful hand crafted City Reports. After Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam (not published in Journal de Nîmes) he will visit London somewhere soon for the next issue. He recently brought all the different maps together in one place: The City Reporter. Enjoy!

Not new, but definitely note worthy: Three years ago the French artist Julien Berthier create this piece of art. An abandoned 6.5 metre yacht cut in half to create a permanent wrecked ship to ’sail’ the world. ‘The image, and metaphor of the sinking ship is an iconic one – it signifies death, lost hope and sinking dreams. Berthier’s Love-Love freezes those sentiments permanently both celebrating and overturning them.’ (More about Love Love on Allsopp Contemporary) And be sure you’ll check his fine little pen drawings as well!

Love these illustrations by Richard Kilroy for An Illustrated look at Modern Mens’ Fashions on Ponystep.

Print Magazine invited 12 leading visual artists to create a design for a cause to be printed on tote bags. One hundred percent of the profits from these bags will go to the causes chosen by the artists. Now they are inviting you to submit your design as well! Three winning designs and artists will be featured in the magazine. One winner will have his or her creation printed onto a bag… Please head over to Print Mag for more information >

Yesterday Merijn Hos launched his monograph The Marigolds in the American Book Center in Amsterdam. Can’t wait to get my hands on this lovely little book stuffed with his bizarre characters, beautiful collages and abstract landscapes. You can buy the book online at Hugo & Marie, and offline at the ABC, Amsterdam (a.o.).

A while ago I mentioned the finnish illustrator Jaakko Pallasvuo. While checking for updates I found a link to the beautiful portfolio of Riikka Sormunen. This 22 year old illustrator from Finland already has an amazing portfolio and gives us a glimpse into her sketchbook at her blog.

Yesterday I’ve met Magomed, a 16 year old genius originally from Chechnya, Russia, now living and working in Germany. He joint us last year at the edsonwilliams family, is a member of the select multi-disciplinary collective The Keystone Design Union, worked for clients like Nike, Diesel, LVMH and his work is published in magazines like IDN, Beautiful Decay, and Pilot.
Yesterday he gave us this beautiful illustration for our new studio and shared a sneak preview of his upcoming site update. A promising kid with too much energy and stunning creativity! Keep a close eye on him…

Dazed and Confused Magazine is calling out to illustrators around the globe to illustrate ten of Dazed’s favourite covers (selected by the editorial team) from the last decade. Deadline: February 15th.

We just received some stunning collages by Mat Maitland made for the December/January issue of l’Officiel Paris.
Mat Maitland is best known for his award winning music Design and Art Direction as part of Big Active, the London based creative consultancy. His pop collage skills are an invigorative contribution to the publication and represent a successful progress into the world of fashion. Thanks for sharing July.

Last issue of our Journal de Nîmes Denise van Leeuwen made this beautiful illustration for us to introduce the Union Special. Last week she updated her portfolio website with a bunch of new work. Enjoy!

Beautiful illustrations by David Callow. Here the cover illustration for Ian M. Hale’s new single Loss. David about the illustration: “I wanted to demonstrate the sense of an eternal moment,
the feeling of existing outside the measurement of time.”

Lenancker Romain, a French based graphic designer and Illustrator emailed us to show his beautiful work. Love his colorful view, the playful paper cuts & folds and clear graphics.

Jaakko Pallasvuo is studying at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and makes some really nice work.

Last week we met talented creatives and reviewed their portfolio’s at the Blend New Talent Night. We were very excited to meet such passionate and talented people and so we left Pakhuis de Zwijger with a fresh dose of inspiration.

Our favorite was definitely last years graduate from the HKU Ashkan Honarvar with his dark, horrifying but lovely collages and paintings. His former classmate, Sylvia Stølan, creates more poetic and sparkling collages and illustrations and did some nice projects here in Utrecht.
More illustration; Hedof caught our eyes with his very nice screenprinted posters – a lovely style.
Adriane Galijasevic overwhelmed us with her energy and enormous amount of stories she put in the jeans she creates.
Promising talent Renata Sifrar showed us a mix of graphic, photographic and illustrational works…
And last but not least: Les Ponies Lilas. Three young girls with a shit load of energy and positivity writing, illustrating and photographing all things they like (dutch only). They’ve made some very nice t-shirts (soon online) and made a very nice illustration of Bas en myself as a present for us – How nice! Keep an eye on all these talents!

Friday october 30 Fontanel and Nieuwe Garde organizing a new issue of 60 Minute Magazine during the ‘Internationaal Beeldfestival Rotterdam‘. Participants will get 60 minutes to create a complete magazine issue – if you’re around, want to share your creativity in journalism, graphic design, photography, illustration or anything else, email them to get on the list. I’ll be there to do a short presentation on our work to inspire, and during the process to coach a bit in the art direction. Hope to see you there…

Assa Ariyoshi, our new intern at Anothercompany and Anothersomething, shared some new illustrations she made during the past weeks. just lovely!