Who is Nightmare Sugar?

I’m Nathan Spence. I started out drawing dinosaurs and designing my own board games as a kid, and eventually went to university to study Fine Art and Graphic Design.

I originally wanted to work in the music industry. That took me to London and an internship at Stylorouge with creative director Rob O’Connor, followed by a job at Mainartery, where I worked with Jo Mirowski on album covers and posters for Repertoire Records and SPV Records.

After a couple of years in London, I moved to Phelan Barker, a branding studio in Essex. I worked on logos, websites, publications and brand identities, particularly for start-ups.

In 2013 I left to travel for a year. Nightmare Sugar started somewhere in the middle of all that.

Since then I’ve tattooed for a couple of years (and may go back to it), continued illustrating and designing, and somehow ended up designing board games again.

If you’re a creative person or small business with something worth making, get in touch.