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Green Man Festival 2014 — Illustration / Character Design

The illustrations Nous Vous created for the Green Man festival 2014 are based around six wild and primal ‘deities’, each representing a different aspect or area of the festival. You’ll find them inhabiting their lush and bountiful surroundings on the Green Man website, around the festival site itself and on all printed material and merchandise. They also have their own twitter accounts…
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Southbank Centre ‘Festival of Love’ — Illustration

During the summer billboards and posters around London were awash with love! To celebrate the Southbank Centre's ‘Festival of Love’ we created characters to illustrate the seven classical categories of love. The campaign was nominated as one of Stonewall's adverts of the year.
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Studio Weave Identity — Visual Identity / Emoji Illustration

Following our regular collaboration with unconventional architecture practice Studio Weave, it was a pleasure to be invited to create their new visual identity. We designed an identity that reflects their idiosyncratic, fun-filled and varied work. A selection of 'Emojis' were made from the logo elements to function as links to various projects on the Studio Weave website.
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We Forgot The Lot — Event branding & marketing

WFTL a collaboration between Tate & Tourettes hero was a fun one day free for all at Tate Britain aimed at families. It was an honour to create the visual promotion for an event that raised awareness of Tourettes and the social issues surrounding the condition. The visual language references the nature of the celebration — visitors taking over and filling the austere spaces of Tate Britain with unusual and expressive activities.
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Frieze Family Guide — Illustration

Frieze commissioned us to illustrate an immersive and fantastical activity for families visiting the 2014 art fair. We created a scene based on the layout of Frieze that can be completed with stickers featuring a cast of unusual characters and versions of some of the artworks on display. 
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Art Moves — Event branding & marketing

Art Moves was a two day event hosted by the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park at the end of September (2014) to celebrate the conclusion of our two year workshop programme 'Elmo'. The event brought together twenty five fantastical vehicles and mobile art projects, each exhibiting or running an activity over two days. We were asked to brand the event, design printed promotion and produce a catalogue.
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Canal & River Trust Exhibitions — Exhibition Curation / Print / Website

The Canal & River Trust Exhibitions were commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society as a way of involving and inspiring new audiences in contemporary art, offering a fresh perspective on the UK’s waterways. Nous Vous were chosen to curate the London exhibition, working with a broad range of practitioners to investigate and respond to the Regents Canal. The exhibition included work by Tom Railton, Ryan Todd, Peter Nencini, John Hooper and Laurence Byrne. We designed the project’s cohesive visual identity through vinyl signage, website and printed ephemera.
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Elmo (East London Mobile Workshop) — Curation / Visual Identity

ELMO is a year long mobile artist in residence programme developed alongside Fiona Boundy, housed in a converted Bedford bus, offering free workshops programmed/delivered by Nous Vous and a selection of contemporary makers. With inspiration rooted in the Art & Crafts movement, ELMO’s aim is to offer access to processes such as letterpress printing, analogue film-making and ceramics, encouraging people to use the resources to make something useful for themselves or their communities.
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Waterbuoys Welcome Pack — Catalogue Design

As a continuation of the Canal & River Trust Exhibitions, all the works shown were re-interpreted as items in a welcome pack for the fictional ‘Waterbuoys’ club including official Waterbuoys pin badge, welcome letter, waterproof zip folder and cork float. Peter Nencini’s ‘Gongoozled Glyphs’ became a sticker sheet. Teatowels were printed featuring Laurence Byrne’s photography. John Hooper’s work was turned into a small photosymmetry ‘game’. Tom Railton’s bronze sculpture was recreated as a foil-blocked bookmark and Ryan Todd’s painting as a flag.
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Editorial Illustration

So far we’ve worked on a great selection of editorial illustrations (in digital and print) for clients including the New York Times, The Gourmand, Bloomberg View, Neon and Publications For Pleasure.

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Ecology Of Colour — Pattern Design & Application

Designed by Studio Weave, this timber-clad structure in Dartford’s Central Park is an outdoor classroom, dyeing workshop, art studio, bird-watching hide, tree house and park shelter all rolled into one. A pattern designed by Nous Vous was adapted to completely cover the exterior. We spent a week working with volunteers to hand-stain the timber panels before everything was finally assembled into the finished building.

Commissioned by Artlands, with Studio Weave and Structure Workshop. Photographs by Benedict Johnson.
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Heritage Crafts — Logo / Print

A Heritage lottery funded project for Milton Keynes Arts Centre, Heritage Crafts focused on the four traditional crafts of Blacksmithing, Green Woodworking, Lace Making and Straw Plaiting through workshops and other events. Nous Vous were commissioned to create a logo and print materials for the project, including risographed postcards, tote bags, three dimensional signage and activity cards.
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Tokyo Police Club, ‘CHAMP’ LP — Record Sleeve Design

Found material, everyday objects and bric-a-brac were used to create this sleeve artwork for Tokyo Police Club’s album ‘Champ’. Working with the photographer Tom Jackson we built up a complex scene that could be photographed from multiple angles, providing images for the album and subsequent single releases.
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University of the Arts London — Illustration

Illustrations to accompany UAL’s Short Course Prospectus for 2012, designed and art-directed by Inventory.
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Walker Art Centre — Illustration

The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, asked us to illustrate the Family Programme section in the Walker Magazine. Thinking about the myriad opportunities that the Walker offers to visitors, we created an art institution-like space populated by curious inhabitants investigating, making, looking, dancing, climbing, pushing, thinking or just having a little lie down. References to artists or artworks are scattered throughout including Joseph Beuys, Brancusi, Yves Klein and Christo.