Review of the Year 2025
2025: A dazzling year where technology and analogue creativity shared the spotlight.
And just like that, another year has gone by! Welcome to It’s Nice That’s Review of the Year 2025 – a look back at some of our most popular articles and videos across the last 12 months.
In 2025, creativity took two distinct, divergent paths. We saw work that pushed boundaries of tech innovation, with a host of intriguing and inventive digital projects making it into our top slots. But – as always – this technological advancement was met with fervent analogue creativity, with a handful of our most read articles going to artists who’ve developed a daily practice of putting pen (or paintbrush) to paper.
Across interviews, industry hot takes and columns from writers across the world, it’s been another energetic and insightful year on It’s Nice That. To help you make your way through our most read articles, we’ve divided our annual Review of the Year series into categories: Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Moving Image (which includes animation and film), our overall Top 50 most read, as well as a breakdown of some of the best talks from our Nicer Tuesdays talks in London, New York and – for the first time in 2025 – LA!
So, without further ado, it’s now time for you to peruse our biggest articles of the year. With deep dives into creative obsessions, newspaper paintings, bespoke lettering for musicians and portraits of 90s teenagers in their bedrooms, there’s something in there for everyone. So pull up a seat, dig in and get inspired!
Illustration above by Darren Shaddick, commissioned by It’s Nice That for Elizabeth Goodspeed’s article on ethical design, one of our top 50 most read articles of the year.