NICKOLAS PETER 
CHELYAPOV

Pickle Robot Co.

Brand + Web + Deck

Testimonials

"Nick has a way of teasing the most beautiful and interesting ideas out of the people he works with. I loved working with him."

"Nick's professionalism, warm demeanor, and top tier design skills keeps him top of mind for critical projects."

Django Unchained

Movie Website

Hollaback Girl

Music Video Graphics

About

I grew up and went to art school in Los Angeles. I went on to work in entertainment and large brand advertising.

But then I moved to Cambridge, MA with my wife, and have applied some of that theater towards early stage science and engineering startups.

Eco Portal

UIUX + Video

Contact

e: nick@nickolaspeter.com
p: 310-279-3040

Future Fields

Brand + Packaging + Deck 

Harvard

Workshops + Design

Django Unchained

Movie Website

Hollaback Girl

Music Video Graphics

Future Fields

Biotech

Harvard

Workshops + Design

Eco Portal

UIUX + Video

Testimonials

"Nick has a way of teasing the most beautiful and interesting ideas out of the people he works with. I loved working with him."

"Nick's professionalism, warm demeanor, and top tier design skills keeps him top of mind for critical projects."

About

I grew up and went to art school in Los Angeles. I went on to work in entertainment and large brand advertising.

But then I moved to Cambridge, MA with my wife, and have applied some of that theater towards early stage science and engineering startups.

Contact

e: nick@nickolaspeter.com
p: 310-279-3040

Gladius Therapeutics

Client
Gladius Therapeutics

Role
Brand + Web + Deck

Comments
Gladius has developed a therapeutic that specifically targets the mitochondria of cancer cells. The logo reflects the G as a shield, suggests a T as the cap, and is a very pointy arrow that enforces the targeted nature of the drug.

Status
Raising funds for FDA trials.

Pickle Robot Co.

Client
Pickle Robot Co.

Role
Brand + Web + Decks + Video

Comments
I have known the lovely people at Pickle Robot for eight years and together we've done the earliest of their decks and presentations, and all the subsequent brand, deck, and video work.

You can see the full video from the second slide here:

Techcrunch: MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for its package-picking robot

Status
$15M Series B 

POW

Client
POW.BIO

Role
Series A Pitch Deck
Exhibition Diagram

Comments
POW.BIO is a biomanufacturing company. Fermentation is used to create not only food, but medicine, fuels, proteins, and enzymes.

The typical method involves putting things in a tank, waiting, and emptying. But POW has cracked the code on making it a continuous process, and this allows for much greater yield from the same footprint.

Status
$9.5M Series A secured. 

Movie Work 2006-2016

Client
Paramount / Universal / Warner Brothers / Focus Features

Agencies
Jetset Studios
Real Pie 
Heavenspot

Role
Direction & Design

Comments
After graduating from art school, I spent a decade doing digital movie advertising. There are quite a few funny stories in there that include snakes on a plane.

Museum of Civil Rights

Client
Museum of Civil Rights

Role
Web Design

Comments
The Museum of Civil Rights is raising funds to build a museum in the heart of New York City. The museum will focus on the progress we've made, focusing on the Northeast US, and the work that is left to do. 

Hollaback Girl

Client
Gwen Stefani

Agency
Heavenspot

Role
Graphic Design

Comments
While I was working at Heavenspot in Los Angeles the production designer for the video shoot came to my boss and asked us to do some graphics for the shoot (the car and the court graphics). I was barely above intern level at the time, and had a bit of fun working on this. 

FØCAL

Client
FØCAL

Role
UIUX + Deck

Comments
As AI / computer vision is becoming distributed on smaller devices, Føcal built a flow based environment that let the user set up a pipeline, then profile and optimize it to run perfomantly on a variety of edge devices.

Status
1M Seed Round raised.

Eco Portal

Client
Eco Portal

Role
UIUX + Video

Comments
Eco set out to build a teleconferencing screen that was always on as a way of interconnecting remote screens in a way as seamless as a window in a wall. I was reponsible for figuring out the interaction models and did the pitch video.

While presenting to investors, there was subtle talk that it was a good idea, but someone else is going to do it. Facebook came out with a product named "Portal" later that year.

Status
Seed round secured.

Future Fields

Client
Future Fields

Role
Brand + Web + Deck + Packaging

Comments
Future Fields is a protein company. Originally started as a company to grow meat, they had trouble sourcing the growth proteins required to feed the cells. In an attempt to solve their own problem, they pivoted to being a protein manufacturing company.

Status
Raised 2.2M seed in 2021. 
Then 13.2M in 2023.

Harvard

Client
Harvard

Role
Workshops & Design

Comments
I taught a dozen workshops at the Harvard Graduate School of Design aimed at architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning students. The topics were: typography, layout, composition, image compositing, and portfolio design.

Along the way I designed a half dozen posters for various speaker events over the course of four years.

Curious Sound Objects

Client:
Curious Sound Objects 

Role:
Curation + Product Design + Marketing

Comments:
I started Curious Sound Objects as a series of art shows, but then made a pocket music toy called Bitty. This has been a ten year project of art, music, and product design.

See more on Instagram.

NICKOLAS PETER 
CHELYAPOV