Baby it's cold outside....

This is the newest installment at Original Penguin, Covent Garden. The brief given to Elemental Design was to add some Christmassy elements to the existing window scheme, which we had installed a couple of months ago.

I designed some happy Penguin vinyl, and a large glittery Penguin to share the plinth with the mannequins. We added some red foil globes, some presents and a Christmas tree inside the shop. I did the vinyl all by myself! Quite a challenge but I proved to myself that I can do it.

YESSSS!

The speech bubbles now feature some Christmassy phrases... And it really is SO COLD OUTSIDE!

RIBBIT RIBBIT

Monday was a fun day this week! Me and Sarah got to go and work in the basement of Liberty, to decorate and bedazzle this frog for Liberty's Christmas windows. He was made by Elemental Design for Liberty's Swampy scheme... The other windows have all kinds of creatures, including giant spiders, jellyfish, flying fish, a mouse flying through the sky on a bicycle.... eee!

A MUST SEE in London this Christmas!

BANG BANG!

A small boutique in Kensington, that sells high fashion and also offers styling appointments with the Italian sisters who own the shop.

Elemental Design installed 2 windows, based on a new product that the shop was about to stock - Juliet's Got a Gun - a new perfume.

We came up with this scheme, where the mannequins are surrounded by stereotypically masculine guns, given a sparkly finish (by myself in the workshop - that was a fun day!), and also more feminine feathers... The mannequins themselves have oversized black roses as heads.

The shop has also unfortunately had a series of break-ins, so we hoped that this scheme might deter any future deviants!

some snapshots from my life...

(Above photos by Mike Reed)

It's been ages!

Back at the beginning of September Elemental Design installed these magnificent pods into the atrium at Liberty. They were inspired by Manolo Blahnik's new collection, and his pop up shop in Liberty.

We spent weeks making flowers using individually cut petals from luxurious fabrics... These were carefully wired into huge pods (2m diameter!) and we spent the night at Liberty installing them.

At 7am we lay down on the floor in the scarf room, and watched as the pods were hoisted up towards the ceiling by some funny blokes on cables. Very surreal.

But beautiful non? go and see for yourself...

Original Penguin, London

Another project that I worked recently on at Elemental Design - a 1950s cocktail party in the Original Penguin windows in Covent Gardens!

I went along to the install which was fun, and designed the wallpaper and some of the elements in the window. I also found the pineapple lurking downstairs in the Elemental workshop, yay!

It's in for the next few weeks so if you're in the area, head down there and check it out...

Chopard 150th Anniversary!

The swallow in a cherry blossom tree

The kitten in a field of dandelions!

The koala in a eucalyptus tree

Andy Macgregor's beautiful hand-crafted animals!

Yikes! It's been two months since my last post. This is mainly due to the fact that I have been employed (HOORAY!) therefore am mega busy and slacking on the blogging front. Soon I will learn to juggle everything... I am now officially working for Elemental Design in Brixton, as junior assistant designer. Yessss!

Anyways - this here is an amazing install at Selfridges, for Chopard jewellery, which I worked on with Elemental. Elemental were commissioned by Chopard to create showcases for the Selfridges Wonder Rooms. To celebrate their 150th Anniversary, Chopard have released 15 watches, each based on an animal, with diamonds and sparklies and gold and mother of pearl and loads of other shimmery shiny stuff...Bling! Apparently the watches took up to 700 hours to make, by some amazing steady handed watch-makers (?!!) in Switzerland.

Elemental asked Andy Macgregor to help out and make the animals for the windows, and he did a super job! We all cooed and ooed and aahed over the animals when they arrived, my favourite was the Koala with the baby on her back.

In the studio we made the flowers and assembled all the lazer cut trees and leaves. If you should ever need some cherry blossom or dandelions made in paper, I'm your girl. I'm still having dreams about those origami blossom flowers....

After a 7 hour intense overnight install, the showcases were done and we all stood back in wonder (harharhar)... These are some snaps I managed to take during the install, but hopefully I can get hold of some better ones for you to feast your eyes on soon.

www.elemental.co.uk

Visit the seaside!

These are but a few snaps from a recent visit to Weston-Super-Mare. They are the beginnings of my final project, which is a poster campaign to encourage people to visit the British seaside. A windy yet fun day was had by all!

If only...PT II final version

The final version, at last!

If only.... part II

Another lecture poster - 2D paper dress with screenprint pattern.  (work in progress, some adjustments to be made!)

If only....

A lecture poster - if we could invite anyone. This is the first in what I hope to be a series.... Paper shapes and hand-made stencil type.

Newbridge

My latest work - I have been designing artwork for trip hop duo Newbridge's album. The idea was to create a scene that encapsulates a feeling of 1920's style, mixed with modern aspects. I made the radio using cardboard, it's about 5ft tall! I then photographed it in a studio, using lovely purple gels over the flash, and my secret weapon, the sparkle glasses, over the camera lens. The type was all letter-pressed by hand. 

www.myspace.com/newbridge1 ~ www.newbridgemusic.com

Bath Fringe Festival poster design

These are some of my designs for the Fringe Festival poster. I was inspired by some of the theatre I saw during last year's festival. I saw some street performances which were unusual and very funny, so I wanted to incorporate the spirit and slight strangeness of it all with my photos. I made the paper skirt and the mask was sewn in felt. The strange colour effect comes from shooting the photos through my sparkle glasses, which are a bit like 3D glasses only much better!