Bruce also founded a design company Kruddart with Michael Coulson, producing anarchic, collage-based material for publishers Faber and Faber and New Scientist as well as working with many leading British film directors including Peter Greenaway, John Boorman, Neil Jordan[4] 1984 film-maker Neil Jordan worked for several weeks in pre-production with artist filmmakers Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson to create hundreds of detailed storyboard drawings for the feature The Company of Wolves.
Bruce's 1985 short horror/drama Wings of Death (BFI) which she co-directed with Mike Coulson, featuring Dexter Fletcher and Kate Hardie, explored addiction.
"[5] Bruce collaborated with Coulson on many projects, including The Human Face[6] with Laurie Andersen and the music video The Blood of Eden for Peter Gabriel[1] featuring vocals by Sinead O'Connor.
Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson were employed as visual co-ordinators by Peter Gabriel's Real World working on a number of projects including an innovative approach to the marketing of the Us album, commissioning contemporary artists such as Helen Chadwick, Rebecca Horn, Nils-Udo, Andy Goldsworthy, David Mach and Yayoi Kusama to create original artworks for each of the 11 songs on the multi-million-selling CD.
[13] The pair also collaborated on a touring exhibition of Steve Pyke's Apollo portraits and space artefacts alongside a 3 Channel Triptych of the Moonbug film called Man On The Moon.
[14] Musician Matt Johnson produced the soundtrack for Moonbug having previously worked with Bruce on her documentary One Man Show: Dramatic Art of Steven Berkoff in (1995).