It’s Nice That alert us to Unbound, a rather interesting concept in independent publishing. The spirit of consumer participation in mind, the idea is relatively simple: “Authors pitch their ideas directly to you. If you like what you read, you can pledge your support to help make the book happen. Everyone who supports an author before they reach 100% of the funding target gets their name printed in every edition of that book”.

Their latest release is a double bill from Tibor Fischer ‘Possibly Forty Ships’ and ‘Crushed Mexican Spiders’, two dark tales to squash any remaining Christmas cheer. The reverse/upside down design is a cool touch and it’s hard to argue with a concept that brings reader and author together. Plus it’s nice to see your name in print right.

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It’s Nice That alert us to the slightly sinister work of Klaus Pichler. The Austrian photographer is self taught, as his bio puts it ‘Klaus Pilcher has had no photographic education at all and he likes it this way’, fair enough. His ‘Skeletons in the closet’ project came from 3 years spent hanging out with the vast taxidermy collection at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. With an incredible amount of material at his disposable, he went about creating bizarre, sometimes comical scenes featuring these frozen creatures. Placing them in unexpected, often banal locations adding to the general air of strange and silly. More about Klaus here.

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It’s Nice That have released issue 7 of their magazine and, if it’s anything like the others, it’s pretty, pretty good. This issue has profiles on Martin Parr, Taryn Simon, i-D founder Terry Jones and Nieves editor-in-chief Benjamin Sommerhalder. It also features some amazing mammaries on the front cover. Check out past issue of It’s Nice That here.

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It’s Nice That introduces us to Geert Goiris‘ incredible landscapes. Eerie, cinematic spaces often devoid of human life, his Resonance series make us want to use phrases like ‘awe-inpiring’ and ‘monumental.’ ”Belgium-born artist Geert Goiris’ otherworldly portfolio takes a liminal position between landscape and still life. Working mostly with photography, the sometimes alien images are so composed as to appear unspontaneous but achieve instead a sublime level of observation and right-place-right-time uncanniness.”

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New issue from the It’s Nice That collective always make my day. Must be the reference-like appeal of the simple rectangular image on the front against a solid spine. Yes, the little things. It’s Nice That Issue 6 delivers in a few weeks, July 14 to be exact.  George Lois takes the cover. You’ll also find features and interviews with New York based artist Lawrence Weiner, Danish photographer Asger Carlsen and gallerist Kate MacGarry. I’m most interested to hear Mikey Please’s take on the importance of  imperfection.

More looks and samples pages from It’s Nice That Issue #6 after the click.

Following up on the video preview, here are some single looks at the forthcoming collection of shirts from It’s Nice That magazine and ASOS. Here are editorial looks. A great magazine and even better representations of the publication on shirts.

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One of our favourite magazine/site has teamed up with ASOS to created this collection of limited edition t-shirts.

On our favorite publications, It’s Nice That,  hits issue #5. Not an easy milestone to arrive at. Congrats to the team. “Content includes features written by Adrian Shaughnessy, Tony Hayward, Trevor Jackson and Justin Taylor; a visual feature by Letman and Qiu Yang; and interviews with Erwin Wurm, Matt Pyke, Isabella Rozendaal, Wilford Barrington and Rob Ryan.” Find it online.

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We neglected this news last month, but now that the Holiday rush is over and we’re again sinking teeth full on into things we love the time is right. It’s Nice That have teamed with Landfill Editions to release an extended series of limited edition prints. Joe Kessler offered the first. We hope, as It’s Nice That suggests, the promise of new prints bi-monthly holds true.

Get close to Kessler’s adaptation of verse xxxiii from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching after the jump.

One of our favorite web-mags is back with a new issue. It’s Nice That issue 4 is about to hit newsstands. “The lineup is incredibly exciting and we have 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.

Also,  ”every order placed before midnight on September 30th (the day before the official release) will receive a free screenprint by James Jarvis, commissioned especially for the issue. The print will be two colour, with a spot UV gloss, making it that little bit extra special and will come unfolded at 185 x 245mm.” Pre-order now.

Select looks from  inside It’s Nice That Issue #4 after the click.