Blue cover for A Chorus of Strangers, with large colourful letters spelling CATALOGUE and small white issue and editorial text above.

Launch of Catalogue 9.0

Celebrating Frieze weekend on Cork Street. To mark the launch of Catalogue 9.0 – guest editor, curator and broadcaster Ekow Eshun hosted an &#8216;In Conversation&#8217; event at Waddington Custot. The panel included artists, Alex Margo Arden, Mahtab Hussain and Linsey Mendick. More news soon&#8230;

Cork Street Galleries

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The Return of the Compact Disc

Tom talks to Creative Review about the mini resurgence of this well known physical format. Could the current shift herald a new wave of creative design for music? Read more <a href="https://www.creativereview.co.uk/compact-disc-return-analogue-graphic-design-album-art/">here…</a>

Creative Review

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In Conversation with Tom Hingston

<div>The Cutler and Gross &#8216;In Conversation&#8217; series celebrates the stories and style of pioneers across the creative industries. Tom is featured as part of their latest story. Read more <a href="https://www.cutlerandgross.com/blogs/news/in-conversation-tom-hingston">here&#8230;</a></div>

Cutler and Gross

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The Music is Black: A British Story

Designed in 1995, our original identity signage for the Blue Note Club in Hoxton Square features as part of the opening show at the V&amp;A East. The Music Is Black: A British Story, runs until 10 January 2027. Read more <a href="https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/the-music-is-black-a-british-story">here&#8230;</a>

V&A East

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Serpentine Galleries Identity

<div>Currently celebrating its 50th year, Monthly Design is South Korea’s leading publication on design. Our identity system for the Serpentine Galleries is featured in their latest issue. Read more <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DVqNlzpmctB/?img_index=1&amp;igsh=d2lnaXIxbDFjOTJy">here&#8230;</a></div>

Monthly Design

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New Identity Launch

<div>Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers worldwide. Our new identity for the 2026 Design Awards launches today. For further information about this year&#8217;s submissions, read more here…</div>

Dezeen Awards 2026

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SHOWstudio 25 Years

Our Massive Attack 3D &#8216;Ballistic Rose&#8217; features in Creative Review’s interview with Nick Knight, reflecting on Show Studio’s 25th Anniversary and the current climate of the creative landscape. Read more here…

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Hingston Studio x Massive Attack

3D printed version of Massive Attacks&#8217; Ballistic Rose taken from the ‘Collected’ cover, originally photographed by Nick Knight. Our &#8220;mystery&#8221; addition to the SHOWstudio 25 Box Set – a limited edition collection of artworks, including contributions from the world&#8217;s leading fashion designers, artists and creatives. See more <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DShmXeLiLGU/?igsh=MWx2emxpd3Q0NHR5ZA==">here&#8230;</a>

SHOWstudio – 25 Box Set

Colourful overlapping album-style covers with blurred gradients and white typography for Teenage Cancer Trust, featuring Kasabian, Doves and Chemical Brothers live recordings.

Limited Edition Vinyl Series

Live at The Royal Albert Hall&#8230; Our limited edition vinyl series for TCT is now sold out! The first in a series of 10&#8243; releases, featuring live recordings from the charity&#8217;s iconic RAH fundraising shows, includes tracks from Chemical Brothers, Kasabian and Doves. Each record was released as an edition of 250, with all proceeds going to the charity.

Teenage Cancer Trust 

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London Event

Leading architects and designers from over 45 countries joined to celebrate Dezeen Awards 2025, announcing this year&#8217;s winners at a party in London. Over 500 guests joined Dezeen for the night at Exhibition White City. HS designed the circus-themed event, which was hosted by Scissor Sisters frontwoman Ana Matronic. Read more here&#8230;

Dezeen Awards 2025

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Episode 17

Tom sat down with David Bennett for the latest episode of the Visuelle Podcast series. They discuss a wide range of topics from Tom’s early journey into design, working with Massive Attack, to where the studio is heading today. We hope you enjoy listening&#8230; 
Listen on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/create-great/id1618211540?i=1000723066673">Apple. </a>Listen on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DvvJgLb3KRZz5Zmoy64Dj?si=PQtRlwi8RVaMgk5SaXMIjQ">Spotify</a>

Visuelle Podcast

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100 Years

Cork Street celebrates its centenary this year. To mark the occasion HS have designed the identity and supporting campaign. A group exhibition opens this week, hosted by all 15 galleries on the street. Curated by Tarini Malik (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the RA), the group show is titled ‘Fear Gives Wings to Courage’ and will run until 25th July. Read more <a href="https://corkstgalleries.com/articles/cork-street-banners-commission-2025-fear-gives-wings-to-courage-in-collaboration-with-tarini-malik-courtesy-cork-street-galleries-and-the-pollen-estate/">here…</a>

Bold black typography on a pale background reads “dezeen awards 2024”, with “in partnership with Bentley” and the Bentley winged emblem above.

Dezeen Awards

Dezeen have received two accolades at the Awards Awards 2025, including being named event of the year. Designed by HS, the 2024 edition of Dezeen Awards was named Awards Event of the Year at the ceremony in London last week. Read more here…

Awards Awards Winners 2025

Formula 1: The Exhibition London billboard with a blurred racing car graphic, bold black and orange typography, and opening details on a white background.

Interactive Issue

Our Formula 1 Exhibition design is featured in Communication Arts magazine as part of their exhibit round up for the April Interactive Issue.

Communication Arts

Two blurred square sleeves on a grey background show silhouetted figures and white serif text, with Doves and Cally on one and Doves and Lean Into The Wind on the other.

Doves Limited Edition

To celebrate this year’s Record Store Day, HS designed the cover for this limited edition 10” release by the Doves. Double A side vinyl, featuring the tracks ‘Lean into The Wind’ and ‘Cally.’

Record Store Day

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The Day of the Jackal

Our opening title sequence for The Day of the Jackal is featured on Communication Arts. Read the full interview with Tom here…

Abstract cluster of shimmering blue and white droplets forming a flower-like shape against a dark purple-black background.

Motion Programme

<a href="https://demofestival.com/programme/exhibition">Special thanks to our friends at Studio Dunbar for inviting us to be part of Demo Festival 2025. A detail from our submission ‘Flora 2’ shown above. Click here to see this year&#8217;s full programme&#8230;</a>

Demo Festival 2025

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Steven Heller features The Day of the Jackal titles on Print magazine’s Daily Heller. Read the full interview with Tom <a href="https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-the-titles-of-the-jackal/">here…</a>

Print Magazine

Bold red typography on a black background reads “THE DAY OF THE JACKAL”, with the title oversized and tightly cropped across the centre.

Our opening title sequence for The Day of the Jackal is featured on Televisual. Read more here…

Televisual

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London Party

Architects and designers from across the globe gathered for the Dezeen Awards 2024 party last week. HS designed the event, transforming Hackney Church in East London, where guests from over 35 counties were hosted. The evening was soundtracked by DJ’s Lou Hayter and Joe Goddard. Read more here…

Dezeen Awards 2024

Large white “01” on a black background, with the zero containing a four-point star-shaped cut-out.

Formula 1 Exhibition

Our Formula 1 Exhibition identity is featured on Type 01. Read the full interview with Tom here…

Type 01

Red Bull Formula 1 car displayed in a dim exhibition space, with motion-blurred visitors and wall graphics showing timelines, arrows and technical text.

Our visual identity for the Formula 1 Exhibition is featured on Communication Arts. Read more here…

Black screen with bold white Dezeen Awards typography, “in partnership with Bentley” above, the Bentley winged emblem, and “2024” at right.

Creative Direction

Setting the scene for the Dezeen Awards 2024, we are pleased to announce that HS will be designing this year’s event at the Hackney Church, in partnership with Bentley. Read more here…

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Deluxe Limited Edition

We are delighted to announce publication of the Deluxe Edition of &#8220;Marina Abramović: A Visual Biography&#8221;. Designed by HS and with a limited print run of 1000, the edition is signed and numbered by Abramović. Read more <a href="https://cms.hingston.net/work/marina-abramovic-a-visual-biography/">here…</a>

Marina Abramović

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Our visual identity for London’s instalment of the Formula 1 exhibition is featured on Designboom. Read more here…

Designboom

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XO/Art Series

The launch of our immersive artwork for the Sphere is featured on Wallpaper* Magazine. Read the full interview with Tom here…

Wallpaper* Magazine

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.

We are excited to unveil ‘Exhale,’ an immersive digital artwork created exclusively for  Sphere in Las Vegas. Commissioned as the next instalment of Sphere’s XO/Art Series, the piece  is now running on the Exosphere – Sphere’s fully programmable LED exterior. Read more here…

Sphere in Las Vegas

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Young Fathers

Our live film for Young Fathers scoops Bronze at this year’s Creative Circle Awards. <a href="https://cms.hingston.net/work/young-fathers-heavy-heavy-live/">Watch the full film here…</a>

Creative Circle Awards ’24

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RSA Rebrand

Our rebrand for Ridley Scott Associates is featured on Shots. Read more here…

Shots

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Ridley Scott Associates Rebrand

RSA rebrand is featured on Televisual. Read more <a href="https://www.televisual.com/news/ridley-scott-associates-launches-rebrand/">here…</a>

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Ridley Scott Associates

The launch of our RSA rebrand is featured on Little Black Book. Read more here…

LBB Online

Open magazine spread with a colourful geometric cover titled Creative Review and an awards feature showing album artwork layouts and bold typography.

Delighted that our cover art for Young Fathers, Heavy Heavy has been shortlisted in the years Creative Review Annual Awards. Read more here…

Creative Review Annual Awards ’24

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RSA Identity

Creative Boom feature our new visual identity for Ridley Scott Associates. Read the full interview with Tom here…

Creative Boom

Record Sleeves of the Year 2023

Delighted that our sleeve work for Young Fathers, Heavy Heavy is featured in Creative Reviews 2023 round up. Read more here…

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Excited to announce that our film for Young Fathers has won Best Live Video at this year’s UK Music Video Awards. A heartfelt thank you to Black Dog Films and all our brilliant collaborators. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u24Yfo5oFJM">Watch the film here…</a>

UK MVA 2023 Winners

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UVA: Synchronicity

Congratulations to our friends at UVA. Their solo show, ‘Synchronicity’ is now open at 180 Studios, The Strand. HS designed the identity and exhibition graphics for this exciting new immersive show. Read more here…

180 Studios

Black vertical bars form a stylised waveform logo centred on a pale grey background, with a small registered trademark symbol to the right.

Pleased to announce that our live film for Young Fathers has received a nomination in this years UK Music Video Awards. Watch this space…

UK MVA 2023 Nominees

Stacked red boxes printed with the title “MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ”, each featuring a black-and-white portrait inset and bold diagonal typography.

Marina Abramović: A Visual Biography

To mark the publication of her new book Marina was joined onstage by author Katya Tylevich to discuss the process, challenges and triumphs in the creation of this incredible tome. Working closely with artist and author HS designed this exciting new book. Watch the full conversation here…

Southbank Centre

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Our Young Fathers film has been shortlisted in July’s video of the month on Promonews. Read more here…

Promonews

Silhouetted singer holding a microphone against intense red stage lighting, with one hand raised in a dramatic performance pose.

Proud to announce an exclusive performance film for Young Fathers, in partnership with Amnesty International UK, to raise awareness for Refugee Week. The session features performances of the tracks ‘I Saw’, ‘Rice’, and ‘Geronimo’. Purchase a ticket to watch the full film here. All proceeds are donated to Refugee Week.

Anmesty International UK

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Countdown. Excited to announce that Tom will be speaking at RGD Design Thinkers in Vancouver on Wednesday 31st May, 4.15pm PDT. For tickets and streaming info register here…

Design Thinkers Vancouver

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Our identity and campaign is featured in Design Week. Read more here…

The Offbeat Sari

Design Week

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Creative Boom interview Tom about our latest identity and campaign for The Design Museum. <a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/news/the-offbeat-sari/">Read more here…</a>

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Adore Identity

Creative Boom have featured our visual identity and campaign work for Garry Fabian Miller’s ‘Adore’ exhibition. Read more <a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/garry-fabian-miller/">here…</a>

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2023 Nominations

Delighted to announce that our opening title sequence for BBC1’s ‘Life After Life’ has been nominated for a BAFTA Television Award. Thank you to our friends at House Productions. Watch this space…

BAFTA Television Awards

Three identical posters on a brick wall show a black silhouetted figure on a yellow background with the title Young Fathers Heavy Heavy and date 03.02.2023.

We talk to Creative Review about the process behind our latest campaign for Young Fathers. Read more here…

Young Fathers Campaign

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RGD: Pleased to announce that Tom will be speaking at DesignThinkers Vancouver in May. 
Super early bird tickets are on sale now…

Dark exhibition billboard for Formula 1 Madrid with large white title, red F1 logo, neon racing car outline and event details in red text.

Our visual identity and launch campaign for the global Formula 1 exhibition is featured in Design Week. Read more here…

Red F1 logo on a black background, with a small registered trademark symbol to the right.

Global Exhibition Announce

Formula 1 have announced the world&#8217;s first official F1 Exhibition will open in Madrid, March 2023. The show presents and interactive and immersive journey through the world of Formula 1. HS have created the visual identity and launch campaign for this exciting new exhibition. Read more here&#8230;

Formula 1

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Hingston Studio

Excited to announce that Hingston Studio is now represented by <a href="https://maworldgroup.com/">MA World Group</a> for branding and creative direction. Looking forward to great things with the team!

MA+ Creative

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Mas des Infermières Identity

Our visual identity work for Ridley Scott and Mas des Infermières is featured on It’s Nice That. Read more here…

It’s Nice That

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Rambert Visual Identity

Our visual identity and launch campaign for Rambert is featured in Design Week. Read more <a href="https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/27-june-3-july-2022/rambert-hingston-new-identity/">here</a>…

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Shortlist Announced

Delighted to announce that our campaign for the V&amp;A’s Alice: Curiouser &amp; Curiouser has been shortlisted for this year’s Design Week Awards.

Design Week Awards 2022

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V&A: Fashioning Masculinities

Tom Hingston talks to Perfect Magazine about our identity and campaign for the V&amp;A’s Fashioning Masculinities show. Read more <a href="https://www.theperfectmagazine.com/features/david-bowie-collaborator-tom-hingston-fashioning-masculinities-victoria-and-albert-museum">here…</a>

Perfect Magazine

Red exhibition billboard for Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, with a silhouetted figure in a dramatic pose and V&A, Gucci and American Express logos.

Fashioning Masculinities identity features in Design Week’s favourite, stand-out projects from April. Read more here…

Design Week: April Inspiration

Design Week: April Inspiration V&A: Fashioning Masculinities

Promotional film artwork showing a close-up of a man wearing headphones beside large white title text, This Much I Know To Be True.

Close-up of a man wearing headphones beside large white title text reading This Much I Know to Be True on a dark green background.

Directed by Andrew Dominik, This Much I Know to be True captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ unique relationship as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums, ‘Ghosteen’ and ‘Carnage’. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival to critical acclaim. HS designed the titles and poster campaign. More soon.

This Much I Know to be True

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis This Much I Know to be True

A person in glossy black clothing and platform heels poses in a dramatic backbend against a vivid blue background.

Creative Boom feature our identity and campaign for the V&amp;A’s Fashioning Masculinities show. Read more here…

Interviews with Hingston Studio