Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

Take:

A pinch of inspiration
A handful of joy
2 spoonfuls of courage
3/8 of a litre of desire
A splash of pride
3 heaped tablespoons of laughter
A kg of saltwater
A cup of going the distance

You'll know when its ready....

Don't hug me I'm scared - A new film by This Is It

Private View - 28th July
Old Shoreditch Station
1 Kingsland Road
E2 8DA

STUDIO MUSIC

Studio Music provides an insight into the creative process of visual practitioners, through the music that they listen to whilst working. Two new artist playlist's will be added to the site at the beginning of each week.

Ben Butler & Mousepad - Design

BBC Introducing

I made this for the BBC introducing website, showing the journey a piece of music makes from the laptop to the radio after it has been uploaded to the site.

Animation, Direction, Design: Daniel Britt
Music: Joseph Pelling
Agency: With Associates

MAKE.DO.

I have been working on a project called 'Make.Do.' a publication that seeks to highlight creative and original people. Everyone featured in this first issue uses their craft and skills to create unique and beautiful products. Above all, they are doing something they love and are deeply passionate about.

Rosie Apples did the photography and Lucia Davies did the words.

Additional photography by Lucinda Chua.

Featured in issue 1 are Ditto Press, Misha Smith, Lynnda Needles and Ricky Feather.

If you would like a copy drop me a line here and tell me where to post it.

Here I Am

better see Battersea!

a hoarding project project project i've done earlier for my school at Battersea.

happy new year!

Sherbet Christmas Card

A short stop motion animation for the Sherbet Christmas card 2010. All the models were hand cut from wood and hand painted.

sherbet.co.uk

Future Laboratory - Happy Holidays

A video christmas/moving office card that we made for The Future Laboratory, starring their office dog Jasper.

http://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/

Love My Dog, Canine Couture designed by Lilly

www.lovemydog.co.uk

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Andy Baker on Vimeo.

I made a Happy New Year Animation, hope you like it!

Prostitutes Of God

Me and Laura made this short animation for the VBS documentary "Prostitutes of God", about sacred prostitutes in India.

Illustrations by Laura Bird

Animation by Daniel Britt

Arts Le Havre Biennale d'art contemporain

A Few weeks back I traveled to Le Havre in France for the third edition of the Bi-annual Festival of Contemporary Art. As well as seeing some brilliant work by various artist such as Jochen Gerner, Christophe Blanc and Frederick Magazine I was also very happy to recieve the second Partouche Prize for experimental film for my animation 'Outside the Box'.

I'd like to say thank you to everyone involved in the festival and sorry for being so terrible at speaking french, here's a stupid picture of me.

Bad Things That Could Happen - Film

Bad Things That Could Happen from This Is It on Vimeo.

Bad Things That Could Happen - Exhibition

Monster Munch Tote Bag

Limited edition Monster Munch tote bag available to buy here.... www.bocka.bigcartel.com

Its Nice That- Guest Poster

Hello,
I am guest posting at It's Nice That every day this week.
Enjoy!

Big Chill Portraits

A few weekends ago me, alice moloney, paddy molloy, mike redmond, dan frost and mark el khatib were asked by Tate Britain to draw peoples portraits at the Big Chill festival. We decided, instead of drawing, to use rubber stamps instead.
You can find more of the portraits here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravenewface/

New Studio

A photograph inside the new This Is It studio

Everything Everything - Schoolin

Everything Everything - Schoolin from Nicos Livesey on Vimeo.

The full length version of Everything Everything's music video "Schoolin"

Monster Munch Cushions

Pictoplasma 2010

The Lost Coin, Outside The Box and The Colouring, were screened at this years Berlin based character animation festival Pictoplasma. If you like what you see there is a DVD available with over 3 hours of selected work.

Platform Presents #1

NME News

NME have posted the Everything Everything - Schoolin Promo that i made in a week. The full length music video will be up shortly.

asos best of british

A while ago I took part in the asos 'Best of British' project. I worked with Peckham Rye and Olney to create a paisley scarf and panama hat.

Kafka On The Shore Spreads

Here are some spreads from Kafka on the Shore... the book I made with Mike Redmond. Some of these drawings are his, and some are mine.
More spreads from this book will be on my site soon

A Blog

I now have a blog here:

nicoslivesey.blogspot.com

This is so people can see my work.

Thank you

Nicos.

Zac Marshall AW 2011

A short film we shot for Designer Zac Marshall's AW 2011 collection.


Directed by Andy Baker and Lucia Davies


Assistant: Lucy Haugh


Model: Dominic Nutt


Music: Black Keys - Psychotic Women

Monster Munch in French Elle Deco Magazine

My giant packet of Monster Munch feature in the latest French Elle Deco magazine. Made from felt with hand stitched detail.

Kafka on the shore

Here are some images from the Graphic Novel of 'Kafka on the shore' that I worked on in my second term with my friend Mike Redmond. We have done the first fifth of the book, and hope to complete the rest in the future. I'll post some actual pictures of the book up when I get around to taking some

Imagination

A short animation I made in response to a brief set by Cartoon Network about Imagination. Additional animation by Joe Pelling. Sound design by Andy Kinnear.

Supermarket Sarah pop-up shop at Selfridges

I made a giant cupcake and a giant packet of Monster Munch crisps out of felt for Supermarket Sarah's pop-up shop in Selfridges. The Monster Munch are currently on display until the 28th of April.

T-shirts

My new T-shirt designs. Both are Hand Screen Printed on super premium white tees by myself and are available in S,M,L,XL. They are £15 each and available here:

andybaker.bigcartel.com

or from Banquet Records in Kingston. perfect for the Summer sunshine (?!)

playground paintings.

I GOT YOU

Here are some spreads from the book I made in my first term at college... Its called I Got You.
The brief was to make a book with a wraparound poster, on the theme of 'dressing and undressing'. If you want to see some of the other books and posters that were in the show, have a look here: http://visualeditor.co.uk/ or if you want to see some of the spreads a bit bigger, have a look on my site www.rose-blake.co.uk

Self Portrait

I did this a while ago for my Mum. She liked it.

BBC Radio 1 Ad

Me Joe and Nicos worked on this ad for the BBC last week with Michael Moloney (http://www.michaelmoloneystudio.com) for the Radio 1 Chart Show.

Dan

BBC Radio1 Chart Show from Michael Moloney Studio on Vimeo.

Some idents I recently made for Spine Tv.

www.spinetv.net.

Spine Tv Idents from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.

Giant Cupcake

I AM NOT AN ARTIST WEBSITE

Hi, heres a fun thing for monday morning, a website I helped out on directed by Johnny Kelly and Matthew Cooper. Lots of Gifs and nice to look at for ages.

www.iamnotanartist.org/index.php

joe

Visual Editor Exhibition

The book I made in the first term at the RCA as part of the Visual Editor, will be in a show with 16 other narrative books at the Hockney Gallery on the 23rd March... come along.
The poster was made by me and Hannah Montague