Koto, Stella Murphy, The White Pube and Will Norman

Over here at It’s Nice That we’ve still got a warm giddy feeling left over from our last Nicer Tuesdays. A sell-out event, the night started off our 2025 event series with a bang, featuring some very special guests of honour taking to the stage from Aardman Animations. We were so happy to see so many of you come down to enjoy some inspiring talks, we’re now excited to let you all in on the line up for our next event. You’ll be pleased to hear that March looks set to be much of the same, with another amazing line-up of creatives in store!

Taking to the Nicer Tuesday’s stage will be the founders ofThe White Pube– the online magazine here to call out “the overly stale, pale and male state of the art industry”. Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad, will be taking us behind the scenes of the world of art criticism and their recently published debut bookPoor Artist. Next, the music video director and filmmakerWill Normanwill be transporting us to London’s iconic grime scene, through a world of model trains and miniatures. We’ll be going behind the scenes of his brilliant new music video for British MC Jme’s trackTNMT.

Then, we’ll be diving into cartoonistStella Murphy’swonderful world of editorial illustrations, a creative whose abstract characters and psychedelic senses have touched the pages ofThe New York Timesand come to life in commissions for Adult Swim, Nike, Ace and Tate and more. Last but certainly not least we will be welcoming global branding agency Koto to the stage with Sam Howard and Dylan Young joining us from Koto’s London studio to take the crowd through the agencies approach to the art through an exploration of their recent projectSeasoned.

We will also be partnering withFrontifyfor March’s event, one of the world’s leading brand-building platforms. By combining a user-friendly DAM with customisable brand portals, Frontify enables creatives and marketers to design, organise, and collaborate.

Founded in 2015 with a team of six and now a global presence in the world of branding,Kotois spread across five cities, working with clients of all sizes and sectors. At March’s Nicer Tuesdays, Sam Howard and Dylan Young of Koto’s London studio will be joining us to talk though the thinking behind the agencies recent projectSeasoned: a series of interactive guides inspired by the bold, no-nonsense style of 70s cookbooks, that invite up-and-coming creatives to have a seat at the table and learn from designers that have been cooking up brands for years.

Writing since 2015,The White Pube’sfounders Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad have continuously addressed “the overly stale, pale and male state of the art industry”, via their online art magazine. Alongside their brilliant weekly reviews and provocative essays, the critics published their debut bookPoor Artistslast year – ‘a powerful testimony to the emotional, existential and financial experiences of artists today,’ that shares their take on capitalism and creativity. At our next Nicer Tuesdays, Zarina will be giving us an insight into their journey into the world of contemporary art and criticism, why they started their collaborative identity underThe White Pube, and how it led to a Penguin-published book.

London-based illustrator and cartoonistStella Murphy’svibrant, psychedelic scenes have covered countless creative commissions for the likes of Adult Swim, Blinkink,Bloomberg,The New York Times, Nike and more, with abstract and amusing characters and moments she uncovers in the everyday. But how exactly does she do it? The cartoonist will take to the Nicer Tuesdays stage to walk us through the process behind her editorial illustration work from breaking down a brief to sending off the final piece. The cartoonist will also be giving us an insight into how she moved from the graphic design and art world into illustration, letting us in on what’s been shaping her signature storytelling style since her early beginnings.