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The Pedestrian Process: Why going behind the scenes of the creative process isn't all it's cracked up to be

Graphic designers cosplaying as type designers: Dinamo on why fonts are a thing to play with

Film: Finally! Michel Gondry on the making of Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?

Submit Saturdays: Thanks Adobe finds inspiration in failure

Getting Behind the Design

Mabel Esteban on why her illustrations have a sinister feeling

Film: An intimate audience with Paul Smith in his Aladdin's cave of an office

Ill-Studio takes us behind the scenes of its new video for Soulwax

Artists in conversation: painters Ansel Krut and Ana Milenkovic talk art school, creative block and finding your style

“A scrapbook of raw, layered process, inspiration and practice”: Dixon Baxi on their 500-page manifesto for making

Ten crucial things to consider when commissioning a photoshoot

#LiveFearless: Set designer Anna Lomax opens up about her creative process

Pentagram partner Angus Hyland chats to us about why dogs and design go together hand in paw

Illustrator Nan Lee on how she experiments with her adaptive style of drawing

Opinion: Let's have the discussion about what a creative uni course needs to do

Albert Elm tells us why being a photographer is like “being an obsessed gold digger”

“I just have to do my job and suffer the consequences”: Wilfrid Wood on not holding back

Creativity never has to settle in just one box and other learnings from October's Nicer Tuesdays

Preternaturally talented Nathaniel Russell tells us about his studio, process, and gives great advice to budding artists.

The Creative Graveyard: What happens to projects after they get cut?

Yale grad Qiong Li takes us behind the W+K NY Instagram

SuprOrdinary looks for creative inspiration in the great outdoors

Illustration: A peek into the sketchbooks of Edouard Baribeaud

“We are incredibly complex creatures that never fail to surprise”: Christaan Felber on his fascinating portraits

Navigating crises of confidence and rediscovering creative joy with Camille Walala

Illustrator Jack Hudson tells us the story behind the new Computer Arts cover

Pivotal moments: We explore the making of career-defining projects at July’s Nicer Tuesdays

The Weekender – adverts, creatives' bins and the pen for women

Agata Grzybowska on collaborating with Chloé Zhao and Jessie Buckley to make a photobook companion for Hamnet

Enter the illustrative “Doolittle” world of artist Eliza Williams

Mikey Please takes us behind the scenes, and the backlash, of the Bake Off trailer

Following the flow state: Stella Murphy on creativity that speaks to the soul

New show curated by DR.ME studio explores happy creative accidents with really interesting results

Collage artist and creative director Mat Maitland on his most-prized books

“My personal work informs everything that comes after it” and other bits we learned at September's Nicer Tuesdays

Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design?

Designer and art director Raquel Quevedo on the importance of leaving room for fantasy and experiments

Lessons in style: how to create an original aesthetic

How to maintain authentic brand values whilst building a business

A day in the life of an INT Works producer

Alex Walker’s designs appear idiosyncratic at first, but are underpinned by an established logic

For Bizzarri-Rodriguez, book design “is everything except a science”

Gary Card takes us on a whirlwind tour of his eclectic career

George Salisbury reveals the hidden creative secrets of The Flaming Lips!

Just a number: Does our age affect how creative we are?

Technology as creative control and pure expression: one artist shows us his process

Illustrator Merijn Hos on his ever-evolving process and practice

Creative director of Clash magazine Rob Meyers shares his favourite books

Olimpia Zagnoli on how creativity helps us understand one another

Creatives talk us through their blunders, fuckups and failures at Nicer Tuesdays

What's On: Luis Urculo

Review of the Year 2015: illustrator Hattie Stewart

Take a trip round the boyish brain of the excellent Michael Leon Sadler

“Think, create, fail and be proud”: How to put together an authentic portfolio of work

The creative process explained via egg metaphors, thanks to artist Honza Zamojski

Antonio Vicentini’s School of Life animation displays the result of emailing a creative you admire

A host of art school advice from four top creative names

“I will always ask a lot of questions”: Veronica Ditting in conversation with It’s Nice That

Even Manuel Radde's rejected design work is an absolute treat

Boris Johnson, bins, and coffee in bumholes: Joe Lycett on his array of creative inspirations

Who is the real creator - artist or technologist?

Adventures in Typography: Spin’s new book about its creative process

The sketchbook is an illustrator’s best friend: Clay Hickson on why drafting and practice are key

Introducing: If illustrator Matthew Daniel Swan gets stuck, he draws a wizard

Pavel Ripley’s creative process thrives on “controlled randomness”

Oscar Hudson reveals (some) of the secrets behind his video for Loyle Carner

Harry Butt on the importance of learning from your creative failures

Write-up: exploring creative mistakes at our last Nicer Tuesdays

Gaurab Thakali on how music can inspire and drive his lively illustration practice

Caped Creatives: Superhero comics and making it in an agency

Marion Deuchars on how to make a great picture book

The Mill shows its process behind creating those amazing Angry Birds pigs

Three artists share tips for how they carve out more time for creativity

“You don’t need to be right to do art”: introducing illustrator Antoine Nogueira

“Perfectionism kills creativity”: Thalía Gochez on the importance of having fun as a photographer

What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it

What can designers learn from failing? And how can they "fail better"?

Behind the scenes at The New York Times Magazine with Jeremy Liebman

French photographer Clément Pascal shows how studio visits could and should be shot

Film: Peek into the brain of freestyle illustrator Shantell Martin