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Barcelona studio Niceshit's design modular, audiovisual system for weekly Spotify playlists

Well, this is rather nice. Or Niceshit, as the Barcelona design and animation studio of the same name might put it. It's a new passion project, freshly launched, inspired by an ongoing series of weekly Spotify playlists chosen by various artists around the world.

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Niceshit Weekly mural on brick wall featuring a colourful grid of abstract illustrated elements including geometric shapes, radiating lines and organic forms in bold colours

Put simply, Niceshit invites a different creative every Monday to reveal 20 of their favourite songs and then shares the playlist with the rest of us via social media. So far for 'Niceshit Weekly', we've seen recommended tunes from Dan Woodger, Sebastian Curi, Elda Broglio, Xoana Herrera, and Andres Reisinger.

However, the real beauty of this project lies in Niceshit's design treatment of each playlist, which is composed of a set of illustrated elements which are then animated in seamless, gorgeous loops and further accompanied by bespoke sound, to create a custom visual styling for each week's playlist.

Niceshit developed a supermodular, audiovisual system for its side venture. "We needed to be able to quickly put fun and engaging layouts together to publish each week in our Instagram Stories," says Guido Lambertini, animation director at the studio which boasts Google and MTV as clients. "So, we created a toolkit of elements, which then we animated separately and added a sound to each of them. With this, we can now create endless layouts and by just dragging and dropping the animated elements and combining them into a layout, we get the music!"​

Niceshit is represented by Jelly London. To find out more, visit niceshit.tv or follow the studio on Instagram.

Three iPhone screens showing Niceshit's modular audiovisual system for weekly Spotify playlists, with animated illustrated elements and custom visual styling for each playlist on a yellow background
The Toolkit showing a colourful collection of animated graphic elements including geometric shapes, lines, stars, flowers and abstract forms used to create visual styling for weekly Spotify playlists
Three smartphone screens displaying Niceshit Weekly Spotify playlists with custom illustrated and animated visual designs in red, black and green colour schemes
Niceshit Weekly's modular audiovisual system featuring animated geometric shapes, coloured circles and lines, and wavy elements against a dark and blue background
Niceshit Weekly logo with animated geometric shapes in red, pink, yellow and blue rays radiating outward
7th Week FacuCapece poster with geometric shapes including coloured rectangles, radiating lines and a starburst symbol on a blue background
Colourful poster for 8th Week featuring Andrés Reisinger's name with stacked diagonal coloured bands and red radiating lines on a green background
Colourful modular grid of geometric shapes, radiating lines and abstract motifs in a framed display for Niceshit Weekly
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