Nick Chaffe Studio

Rye is a useful name for a café bar as it's an ingredient used in many foods and drinks including beer, whisky and bread all sold at this new establishment in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It's a sturdy grass and flourishes where others can't. (Marketing and brand development by @mattshelts interior design by Northern Backdrop )

Commissioned for Hyper Island Manchester to produce a mural to represent the school’s philosophy. The illustration started at 5pm and ended at 12.30am, with only a short break for an egg and cress sandwich.

Brand update, art direction, interior graphics and hand painted signs for new 200 Degrees Coffee Shop and Barista School. (Interior design collaboration with Northern Backdrop)

I was honoured to work with Amnesty International on their annual 'Write for Rights' campaign. I was asked to produce twelve illustrations representing cases of human rights abuses from around the world. Each artwork was designed to tell the stories of people's suffering and encourage Amnesty's supporters to write to them and their respective governments for action. My imagery has been used across online, print and outdoor campaigns across the globe and has helped Amnesty gain over 3.7 million sign-ups, please click here to take action

2016 London Jazz Festival illustration imagery.

Time Out London cover and internal design/illustrations for their Bank Holiday special. See more in this style here

Logo design for Blue Forge a recruitment consultancy that aims to treat recruitment more like a craft than a sales business.

Amstel illustrations for their 'Savour Complexity' campaign working with Droga5 in New York. The brief was to "Reveal the complexity behind simple or common things in a surprising, graphic and entertaining way." Illustrations were used across billboards, digital and mobile banners, and in-bar materials.

TV Magazine collaboration with David Walliams

UK Young artist brand identity design and initial marketing.

Bespoke newspaper designed and produced for an interior design company at the Independent Hotel Show, Olympia, London ( client: @mattshelts )

EeBria, an online market place for independent alcohol producers in the UK. Complete brand creation and marketing materials.

Pre-opening brochure design, photography art direction and initial marketing material.

XV was the 15th Annual Nottingham Trent University Photography degree show festival. The unique event showcased a diverse range of contemporary photographic work around the city of Nottingham. All marketing was printed in one colour using embossed papers for the invitations and limited edition posters. The 210 page photography book had an embossed cover.

In November 2010 the forty-eight artists and artist collectives from UKYA01 were approached with a proposition and invited to take part in a project conceived to create a ‘conversation’ open to all content but structured by specific limitations. Inspired in part by a seminar on invitational and propositional writing as contemporary art practice and the childhood game of consequences, the idea was to create a series of invitations to respond with each artist chosen at random and privy only to the preceding response/invitation. Each response/invitation could take any form and be delivered by e-mail, text message or post; each artist had 48 hours to prepare their response/invitation. Thirty artists took part in the project. The aim was to create a space where continuing interaction between the artists from UKYA01 could manifest itself resulting in an ‘exhibition catalogue’ that facilitated an ongoing collaborative process rather than just representing a past event.

Designed on one side is a graphic representation of the event showing the geographical location of each artist/collective and the point in time when each response/invitation was delivered. On the other side you can see details of each artists's response.

5 colour (includes silver) print both sides on GFSmith colourplan pistachio 175 gsm with Silkweave embossings

Collaboration with photographer Peter Anderson  for Nottingham Contemporary art gallery.

Identity and brochure designed and produced for Nottingham Train Station.

Various type experiments.

Collaboration with photographer Peter Anderson  for Nottingham Contemporary art gallery.

Foucault Reader designed for The Impossible Prison exhibition which was the final instalment of Histories of the Present by Nottingham Contemporary. 

Foucault, in a communiqué on behalf of Group d’Information sur les Prisons wrote that “prison these days begins long before the prison gates”.