Darren Shaddick
Illustrator
3 articles · Aug 2025 — Dec 2025
Articles & interviews
- Review of the Year 2025
It's Nice That · Dec 15, 2025
It’s Nice That’s 'Review of the Year 2025' reflects on the past year’s most popular creative stories, spanning graphic design, illustration, photography, and moving image. The feature highlights the balance between technological innovation and analogue artistry, celebrating diverse creative practices across global cities. The hero illustration by Darren Shaddick accompanies the editorial, marking one of the platform’s top-read features of the year.
It's Nice Thateditorial - Review of the Year 2025
It's Nice That · Dec 15, 2025
It’s Nice That’s ‘Review of the Year 2025’ reflects on a year where digital innovation and analogue creativity thrived side by side. The editorial highlights the platform’s most-read features, spanning graphic design, illustration, photography, moving image, and talks from Nicer Tuesdays events in London, New York, and LA. The piece celebrates the diversity and energy of the creative industry over the past year.
It’s Nice Thateditorial - "Exploring the Ethical Dilemmas Faced by Designers Today"
It's Nice That · Aug 28, 2025
Elizabeth Goodspeed’s feature for It’s Nice That explores the complex question of whether an ethical designer can truly exist in today’s commercial landscape. Through perspectives from studios like Pentagram, Koto, and Creech, the piece examines how designers navigate moral boundaries, client choices, and the contradictions of working within a capitalist system. The article highlights how personal values, studio policies, and structural realities shape what 'ethical design' means in practice.