Nike’s advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy commissioned Nirvana to produce the graphics and other print collateral for the brand’s Grid running event. We printed six-sheet posters in six colours, which were posted all over London. An A1 poster was also printed these were distributed to universities and shops, with event participants encouraged to ‘steal’ and [...]

Reflecting the quirky dinosaur imagery and products featured in Giles Deacon’s collection, these invitations were designed to surprise, engage and amuse guests.

For this piece of self-promotion, we worked with designer Paul Blackburn to create a set of collectable football wall charts. We wanted to combine our passion for design, print production and football to produce a gift distributed inside design magazines Creative Review, Graphic International and Grafik. Created for the European and World Cup tournaments, each [...]

The brief from Dunhill called for a simple, yet striking press kit to complement its SS11 fashion show at London Fashion Week. Creating the right look to mirror the prestigious event was key to this project. We produced a clam shell box to contain 33 cards, each showcasing a different one of the season’s looks. [...]

To promote a new range of smartphones, Sony Ericsson wanted to send exclusively packaged devices to a number of retail store managers. The company asked us to produce dummy book packs to contain the new devices. Each package looked like a case-bound book, with 16 pages of text at the front and a phone concealed [...]

This catalogue for luxury interior and furniture designer Francis Sultana shows off his first furniture collection in simple, luxurious materials. We used a cloth material for the cover, with Regency Satin paper for the text pages. The cover was debossed and foiled to the face with the back cover having the distinctive FS Monocle foil [...]

We developed the store magazine for fashion brand COS, in partnership with Jop Van Bennekom, the man behind Fantastic Man and The Gentlewoman magazines. As part of the development, we sourced a range of materials to show off the magazine’s design and photography and prototyped issues for each material combination. Now, we produce the magazine [...]

Studio Thomson designed a book for specialist image library Millennium to showcase its latest work, asking us to develop and produce it. The A6 book was designed to have a wood-effect cover, with foil blocking and an elastic band to hold it in place. We sourced the materials and produced a number of prototypes to [...]

Exposures briefed us to produce material to support the Levis Curve ID UK launch, a two-day event held at a West End hotel and Soho club. We produced two gifts for guests: a book, vacuum packed in a screen printed translucent bag, and a key-shaped USB drive attached to a lanyard made from tailor’s measuring [...]

In partnership with design studio Junior Junior, Nirvana developed the spec and produced the lookbooks for fashion designer Hussein Chalayan. As the images used in the book were taken from a RED Cam moving imagery of the runway show, paper choice was critical to ensure the best reproduction of the images. We decided on Regency [...]

Design consultancy Egelnick & Webb asked us to produce a promotional item for new British Land development Regent’s Place near Warren Street tube. The brief called for a stainless steel, credit card-sized tube map that referenced the gleaming new building. After exploring a number of processes, we used chemical etching to ensure the smallest details [...]

When NBA star LeBron came to the UK to host a nationwide basketball tournament, advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy and Nike commissioned Nirvana to produce a range of print collateral to support the event. Elements of the project included A1 posters, produced from solid white screen print and metallic gold foil on black Plike, and [...]

To convey the importance of warm relationships, Royal Mail’s DM agency Proximity London devised the concept of a package that warmed up on opening, commissioning us to produce 40,000 units. After researching different options, including US military food cans, gel hand warmers, microwaveable beanbags and medical heat pads, we found a factory in China that [...]

Commissioned by design consultancy Egelnick & Webb, we produced these playful invitations for fashion brand House of Holland. Screen printed on clear polybags, the invitations contained die-cut, house-shaped confetti, reflecting the collection’s wedding theme. The design encouraged the guests to interact with the product by scattering the confetti over models passing on the runway.

Having worked on a variety of projects for McQueen over the years, Nirvana is in tune with the fashion brand’s high production values. A key element of this project was retouching and colour balancing some of the imagery, and the final books were printed and thread sewn, with a foil block front cover and silver [...]

The Barbican hosts a number of high-profile events and exhibitions throughout the year, and Nirvana often collaborates with the venue to produce some of the associated invitations and print collateral. Working with some of Europe’s top design studios, such as North, Pentagram and Artwork Love, we create these projects using a number of techniques, such [...]

When London design studio Junior Junior decided to launch a football magazine, its founders approached Nirvana for print consultancy and production. The Green Soccer Journal recognises a niche in the football magazine market for a publication that goes beyond the usual glossy, brash and goal-focused style of football reporting. The journal is aimed at a [...]