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The New York Times: Modern Love: A Kiss, Deferred

'A Kiss, Deferred' is our contribution to The New York Times' Modern Love column, based on a true story written by Nikolina Kulidžan.

/ Winner of the Cristal for a Commissioned Film, Annecy 2016 / Winner of a 2016 D&AD Graphite Pencil for Branded Content and Entertainment / Winner of ADCE Gold Award

- **Directed**

  Moth Studio
- **Designed**

  Moth Studio
- **Produced**

  Nicholas van der Kolk and Moth Studio
- **Writer**

  Nikolina Kulidžan
- **Animation**

  Marcus Armitage, Joe Bichard, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Noriko Ishibe, Eamonn O' Neill, Claudio Salas and Moth Studio
- **Sound Design**

  Nicholas van der Kolk
- **Client**

  The New York Times
- **Production Year**

  2015

We had always been fans of the Modern Love column and the animations created from those stories.

When the series producer, Nicholas van der Kolk, sent us Nikolina's story we knew we had something great on our hands. A really personal and relatable story with the war in former-Yugolsavia haunting it in the background.

Aesthetically we wanted to create something minimal yet sensitive. We went for a graphic approach for the backgrounds, simples lines and shapes with a gentler treatment for the characters, and all realised in a 90’s Balkan-inspired colour palette. At that young age the school environment is very powerful , so we used it as a framework for their teenage romance.

Read the full [NYT article](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/fashion/a-kiss-deferred-by-bosnia-and-herzegovina-civil-war.html).

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