Andrew Liu

Andrew Liu works across design, photography, and art direction to produce images, still and moving.  He is currently based in London.
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Projects
  1. Karimoku Re:issue by Lichen
  2. Jordan Brand [spec]
  3. CARICOM: The Island
  4. GUAVABABA
  5. Three Meals
  6. Basketball Shoe Archive

 Photography
  1. Selected Work
  2. Incidental Contact
CARICOM: The Island

CARICOM Magazine is an innovative print and online platform that uses a mix of editorial content, photography, events, creative collaborations, and conceptual projects to explore football and broader culture through a Black lens.

For its third issue, CARICOM is offering people the opportunity to escape to a different world. In a time when Black people’s very existence is increasingly defined by their experiences of – and endless discussions of – racism, the inhabitants of the tropical paradise known only as The Island refuse to play by those rules.

I served as the lead designer and art director for this all encompassing project spanning apparel, audio, video, web design, print, social, and strategy.

Featured in:
It’s Nice That

Creative Director: Calum Jacobs
Designer: Andrew Liu
Lookbook Photographer: Diogo Lopes
Product Photographer: Harry Mitchell
Illustrator: Stuart Ruel
Accessories Designer: Cheli Gharti



We worked closely with the Nike by You team to produce eight unique graphic placements.

Glossy and matte vinyl prints, flocked lettering, woven club crest, and a custom iron-on Swoosh were intricately placed on a Nike Dri-FIT L/S shirt.

The kit was launched in-person at NIkeTown London and online on the Caricom webstore.

These inhabitants, known as The CARICOM Group, live in symbiosis with their home, ingeniously harnessing The Island’s abundant natural resources to provide them with food, water, and power. With their basic needs met, they are instead free to spend their days making art and playing football, communally embracing the joys of a life unphased by the banal inevitabilities of race, rampant consumerism, and individualistic scarcity mindsets.

Conceived of as a radical thought experiment, The Island asks people to envision a world in which Black people turn their backs on the standard narratives of trauma and oppression that are forced upon them, and instead consider the expansive possibilities for more prosperous ways of being that exist beyond the confines of white society in a space where unrestrained Blackness is free to thrive.



These inhabitants, known as The CARICOM Group, live in symbiosis with their home, ingeniously harnessing The Island’s abundant natural resources to provide them with food, water, and power. With their basic needs met, they are instead free to spend their days making art and playing football, communally embracing the joys of a life unphased by the banal inevitabilities of race, rampant consumerism, and individualistic scarcity mindsets.

Conceived of as a radical thought experiment, The Island asks people to envision a world in which Black people turn their backs on the standard narratives of trauma and oppression that are forced upon them, and instead consider the expansive possibilities for more prosperous ways of being that exist beyond the confines of white society in a space where unrestrained Blackness is free to thrive.






Website design. We wanted to create an immersive digital experience for all of the Island’s offerings.



Panini inspired player cards. 
Inkjet print, hand cut, and scanned.