Three neon yellow right-pointing arrows with rounded corners sit across a dark background in a bold, graphic composition.

Inspiring Creative Futures

Three bright lime arrow shapes point right in a row on a dark background, creating a bold repeated geometric composition.

UCA Campaign

Defining the Next Chapter

White RSA monogram in bold geometric lettering on a black background, centred with a minimalist, high-contrast composition.

Ridley Scott Associates

A New Luxury Experience 

White serif lettering spelling JANU centred on a soft blurred gold and brown gradient background.

Janu by Aman

Bold white lettering reading “dezeen awards 2024” on a bright green background, with “in partnership with Bentley” and the Bentley winged logo above.

Creative Direction

Dezeen Awards 2024

Grey textured surface with recessed typography reading “FRIEZE CONNECT” centred in the frame.

Branding a Cultural Community

Frieze Connect

The Global Exhibition

Abstract neon light trails in cyan and magenta sweep across a black background, forming a dark, fluid composition with no legible text.

Formula 1

Night view of a large glowing blue dome with swirling light patterns, set against illuminated Las Vegas landmarks including the Ferris wheel and Palazzo tower.

Sphere in Las Vegas

Nighttime city skyline with a giant blue illuminated dome covered in sweeping light trails, with the Ferris wheel glowing behind it.

XO/Art Series

The Day of the Jackal

Bold red title text reading “THE DAY OF THE JACKAL” on a black background, with oversized condensed lettering and a dramatic centred composition

Sky & Peacock

Prisoner Titles

Bold cream lettering spelling “PRISONER” sits centred on a dark background, with tall condensed type and generous spacing.

Sky TV

A Contemporary Mythology

A large crowd faces a concert stage with a huge red LED display showing a bright white burst and central dark circle.

Meduza Live

Branding a Mythical Place 

Dark cylindrical packaging with spaced serif letters under a dramatic diagonal spotlight.

Mas des Infermières

Branding a Japanese Legacy

A pale grey field with a white geometric star-like mark made from interlocking diagonal and vertical stripes, centred with no text.

Goldwin

The Offbeat Sari

Silhouetted figure against a glowing orange background, with spiky black graphic elements radiating around the body and arms.

Abstract composition of flowing blue and magenta ribbon-like forms against a pink gradient background

The Design Museum

Heavy Heavy (Live)

Blurred close-up of a face bathed in blue-green light, with a hand raised near the mouth and dark shadows framing the composition.

Young Fathers

Three framed posters with red, yellow and blue zigzag graphics for The Chemical Brothers, reading “Live Again”, “The New Single” and “6th June 2023”.

For That Beautiful Feeling

Stylised portrait of a person in a large black hat, with dramatic blue and red lighting and a plain pale green-grey background.

The Chemical Brothers

Celebrating the 'Art of Menswear'

A dark-clad figure arches backwards against a vivid blue background, creating a striking silhouetted composition with sculptural fabric folds.

Victoria & Albert Museum

UVA: Synchronicity

White geometric line lettering spelling “SYNCHRONICITY” on a black background, with repeated rounded letterforms creating a sleek, symmetrical typographic composition.

180 Studios

A Radical New Identity

Large white condensed wordmark reading “RAMBERT” centred on a black background

Rambert

A Tailored Approach to Film 

Orlebar Brown

A Celebration of Light

Two adjacent exhibition posters on a brick wall show the title Adore in large white type, with Garry Fabian Miller and Arnolfini dates above.

Garry Fabian Miller

Stacked pale pink textured boxes with a small black-and-white portrait inset on top, shown in a minimalist grey setting.

A Visual Biography

Marina Abramović

Heavy Heavy

Titles Reel

Dark composition with a pale tulip-like flower on the right, against a near-black background speckled with small floating droplets.

Hingston Studio

3D Motion Reel

Abstract macro-style composition of pink and purple particles swirling through a pale blue gradient, with no discernible text or objects.

Record Sleeve of Nick Cave Carnage. Design by Hingston Studio, London

Carnage: Album Campaign 

Stack of white covers with bold black, red and black typography spelling CARNAGE, and small text reading Nick Cave & Warren Ellis at the lower right.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

The Alchemist's Euphoria

A red-lit concert scene with a tall vertical screen showing dense white abstract symbols and glyph-like typography above the crowd.

Kasabian

End Title Sequence

Minimalist grey textured surface with three small dark oval marks arranged diagonally near the lower centre.

Cyrano

Alice: Curiouser & Curiouser

Tall pink ALICE lettering on a cream background, with a black-and-white girl cut-out standing over the lower letters.

Reimagining the Spirit of Ecstasy

House Of Rolls Royce Design by Hingston Studio

House of Rolls-Royce

A Digital Brand Story

Rolls Royce The Future Art Direction Hingston

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

The Widow Series

A dramatic red-lit installation shows a bright laser beam cutting through a dark space above a field of tall wildflowers.

Veuve Clicquot

Stacks of bright yellow catalogue covers with large black CATALOGUE typography and striped circle motifs in orange and yellow.

A Journal for Contemporary Art

Cork Street Galleries

A Unique Collaboration in Time

Close-up portrait of a man in a dark high-collared coat against a blue background, lit dramatically with much of his face in shadow.

IWC x Orlebar Brown

Record Sleeves for Chemical Brothers Born In The Echoes. Campaign and Design by Hingston Studio, London

Born In The Echoes

Chemical Brothers

Cocoa Sugar Campaign

Print Design for Young Fathers by Hingston Studio

Title Sequence

Close-up of a pale flower against a dark background, with three broad petals and bright yellow stamens at the centre.

BBC Two: Life After Life

DNA Spray Paint

MASSIVE_ATTACK_MEZZANINE_DNA_SPRAY_PAINT_

Massive Attack ‘Mezzanine’

A Digital First Identity

Bold black stencil-style word SERPENTINE centred on a turquoise background, with wide spacing and a minimal, graphic composition.

Bold black Serpentine lettering centred on a bright turquoise background, with oversized geometric letters and tight spacing.

Serpentine Galleries

Branding an Architectural Icon

The word ONE appears in colourful layered geometric lettering on a black background.

Stylised 3D letters spelling ONE in neon cyan, magenta, yellow and blue on a black background, with translucent layered strokes and geometric forms.

One Poultry

Designing Hotel 1729

Blue-lit installation with numerous suspended rock-like forms hanging on thin lines in a hazy exhibition space.

Ruinart

The Power of a Gesture

Still from GQ MOTY Awards. Film and Art Direction by Hingston Studio, London

Lewis Hamilton

Black presentation box with bold white typography reading “Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds” and “B-Sides & Rarities” on a matte black lid.

B-Sides & Rarities 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

We Will Sin Together

Jehnny Beth

Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)

Abstract black-and-white composition with large repeated X shapes formed by a grid of bright lines over a dark background.

David Bowie

Get Up

Young Fathers Get Up Art Direction by Hingston Studio

Defining a New Music Format

Seth Troxler Lost Souls of Saturn Album Artwork

Lost Souls of Saturn

A Deeper Music Experience

Naim Audio

No Plan

Night street view of a shopfront with a glowing blue window grid, a sign reading NEWTON ELECTRICAL and faded dry cleaners lettering nearby.

Hurricane Campaign

Glossy black sculptural human head in left profile against a plain light grey background, with smooth reflective surface and minimal composition.

Grace Jones

A silhouetted figure holds a bright red flare in darkness, with smoke and sparks illuminating the scene.

Live Action Reel

A silhouetted figure holds a bright red flare against a dark background, with smoke and sparks creating a dramatic, high-contrast scene.

Nick Cave Ghosteen. Art Direction and Campaign by Hingston Studio, London

Ghosteen Campaign

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Temple - Opening Titles

Sky One

Close-up black-and-white photograph of an open palm, showing deep creases, rough texture and high-contrast lighting on a plain white background.

Black Gold

Close-up of a black inked hand with heavy crosshatched texture, filling the frame against a plain white background.

Editors

‘Progress’ Collaboration

Paul Smith

Redefining Floristry

Campaign for Flowerbx. Art Direction by Hingston Studio, London

Flowerbx

Celebrating Two Decades

Soph.20 Branding Design by Hingston Studio

SOPH.20

Overlapping black-and-red poster designs for Tom Waits, with bold italic typography and glitchy, high-contrast photographic textures.

Vinyl Series

Massive Attack

Cocoa Sugar is the notion of something both bitter and sweet. It is also a title which thrives on contradiction. A collaboration between the band, Tom Hingston, and Photographer Julia Noni, the campaign presented an exploration of male identity through photographic image.

Poster for Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar. Campaign by Hingston Studio, London

Three framed exhibition posters show stylised portraits in black silhouette with vivid neon facial accents, flanking bold white text reading YOUNG FATHERS COCOA SUGAR and WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.

Record Sleeve for Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar. Design and Campaign by Hingston Studio, London

Record Sleeve for Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar. Campaign by Hingston Studio, London

Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar. Design and Campaign by Hingston Studio, London

Record for Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar. Campaign by Hingston Studio, London

The lead visual, featuring band member Alloysious Massaquoi contrasted themes of masculine and feminine, whilst drawing on intangible cues of beauty, disdain, humour and aggression. The image served as a provocation for all of these themes, but also defined an iconic visual language for the record. 
Spearheaded by the slogan, “What a Time to be Alive”, the global campaign extended across product, outdoor, digital, streaming platforms and the live shows.

Explore the Cocoa Sugar campaign for Young Fathers, using art direction, film and graphic design to capture the album's intensity and character.