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The View From...

The View From... is a column on It’s Nice That written by a team of international correspondents in major creative cities around the world. In the series, we report on the design scene in these cities, exploring the topics that are making an impact on the local creative community there.

All 41 articles

Where have all the flowers gone? The new dawn of Corita Kent

The unique design strategies shaping solo living in Seoul

9 December 2025

Inside Zum Festival: the finest photobooks from Brazil’s indie publishing hub

2 December 2025

How changing tattoo culture reflects a quiet shift in Japan

19 November 2025

Meet the Nigerian graphic designers bringing African expression to typography

4 November 2025

Pencil power: the Indian creatives provoking change through illustration and design

21 October 2025

The many colours of Rotterdam, through the eyes of From Form

16 September 2025

The femme creatives shaping Naarm’s dance scene

2 September 2025

Are Berlin’s urban artists destined to paint a creatively sanitised future for their own neighbourhoods?

Summer of resistance: LA’s visual response to ICE

How Gilberto Gil united the best in Brazilian design

How small studios stay independent in Korea

The furniture designers centring Nigerian cultural symbols

The new creative neighbourhoods in Mumbai are preserving cultural heritage, while trying to avoid gentrification

Why, in Egypt, creatives are returning to calligraphy in their droves

Irasutoya: the best-known illustrator in Japan, that you’ve probably never heard of

Where to book hunt in Amsterdam, a playground for contemporary book design

Why Naarm’s creative rat race breeds design-led offbeat brands

When culture is cut, everyone suffers – not just the creative industry

The Hollywood Sign: a problematic symbol of fantasy and exclusion