Shynola Explained

Shynola are a London-based directing team who have worked across live-action and animation for over twenty years.[1] Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy, Jason Groves and the late Gideon Baws formed Shynola while they were at art college in the late 1990s, and immediately earned recognition for their inventive work.

Their music video work includes all artists like Junior Senior, Radiohead, Beck, Blur, Coldplay, ABBA and Queens of the Stone Age, along advertisements for brands like Nike, Audi, PlayStation and Maserati. They also created notable title sequences for series and films: The IT Crowd, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Mandy, and Netflix’s GLOW.

They have received scores of awards including a British Independent Film Award and three times Emmy nominations, with multiple wins at Edinburgh International Film Festival, D&AD awards and UK Music Video Awards.

In 2008, founding member Gideon Baws, died at age 33.[2]

Notable works

Music videos

YearArtistSong Title
1999Unkle"Guns Blazing (Drums of Death, Pt. 1)"
Quannum featuring Lyrics Born and The Poets of Rhythm"I Changed My Mind" (Stereo MCs Rattlesnake Mix)
2000RadioheadKid A blips: 'Basement Bear', 'Bear Witch', 'Dead Air', 'Drown', 'Eyes', 'Geese', 'Giant', 'Planes', 'Scarecrows', 'Six Million Thom', 'Stars', 'Thom Over Planes', 'Valley', 'Wake Up', 'White Mountains', 'Yeti'[3]
2001"Pyramid Song"
Stephen Malkmus"Jo Jo's Jacket"
Unkle"Eye for an Eye"[4]
2002Lambchop"Is a Woman"
Junior Senior"Move Your Feet"
The Rapture"House of Jealous Lovers"
2003Queens of the Stone Age"Go with the Flow"[5]
Blur"Crazy Beat"
"Good Song"
2005Beck"E-Pro"
2009Coldplay"Strawberry Swing"[6]
2011"Paradise"
2013Black Sabbath"God Is Dead"
"End of the Beginning"
Nine Inch Nails"Everything"
2015Hot Chip"Need You Now"
2016Tiësto and Oliver Heldens featuring Natalie La Rose"The Right Song"
2021ABBA"I Still Have Faith in You"
2022"Eagle" as part of ABBA Voyage
2022"Voulez-Vous" as part of ABBA Voyage

Short films

Film

TV

Miscellaneous

Commercials

Awards and nominations

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shining a spotlight on Shynola's 20-year legacy. 29 May 2020.
  2. Web site: Remembering and running for Gideon Baws. 22 September 2009.
  3. Book: Zoo. 2001. Purple House Limited. 9781841180298.
  4. Book: Jayne Pilling. Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. 29 May 2012. Columbia University Press. 978-0-231-85014-8. 75–.
  5. Web site: Lens Recap: The Story Behind Queens Of The Stone Age's 'Go With The Flow'. https://web.archive.org/web/20140907054036/http://www.mtv.com/news/1471193/lens-recap-the-story-behind-queens-of-the-stone-ages-go-with-the-flow/. dead. 7 September 2014. MTV.
  6. Web site: Shynola Imagines Coldplay in 2-D – Interview Magazine. 20 July 2009.
  7. Web site: Untaggable: How does #music move us? A film for Audi (Music by Mark Pritchard feat. Thom Yorke). YouTube.
  8. Web site: David O'Reilly: The 'Wrist' Behind 'Son of Rambow'.
  9. Web site: Instagram .
  10. Web site: Strawberry Swing video scoops three awards – Coldplay.
  11. Web site: BBC – Films – Festivals and Seasons – Edinburgh – Award Winners. BBC.