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Oasis Pressday A/W15

August 9, 2015

Oasis A/W15 Press Day Showroom was my favourite so far! We designed & produced a nostalgic 70’s “Hometown” with a modern Oasis twist. Taking inspiration from british market towns we developed illuminated street lamp clothes rails for the collection, an autumnal park and a town full of shops and gifting areas such as ‘Hairs & Graces” the Beauty Salon where you could have your nails expertly painted by the illustrated nail, the “Broach & Horse” Pub where there was Prosecco on tap as well as 70’s bar snacks to keep you going, to the “Goody Too Shoes” Engraver where a map of the street where you live was engraved onto a necklace as a keepsake. We also had a red Hillman Imp in the parking area to complete the scene.

: Researching 70’s England

: modelling up the space

: Designing the street lamp clothes rails

: And the park clothes rails

: The Beauty Salon- image reserch

: The Beauty Salon-design

: The Beauty Salon-built

: the Bric-a-Brac shop

: The Greengrocer-Artwork

: The Greengrocer

: The Florist-sketch

: The Florist -Artwork

: The Pub Design

Thanks so much to everyone involved in the show: Set Design Assistants: Claudia Forsbrey, Esther Langley, Marie Isobel, Vicky Lees and Alice Rigby. Set Builder: Simon Godfrey & Team. Technical/Lighting Crew: JPSL

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Making Snowflakes

August 8, 2015

: magnified snowflake inspiration

: the design

: the 3D design

: machining the smaller vac form tool

: The larger Back piece vac tool

: Cutting out the vac forms

: the smaller front snowflake waiting to have the ice effect added

: testing at the studio :-)

Com my https://writemyessay4me.org/ nomination for the edinspire award – the future of educationso thrilled and so excited to join this wonderful bevvy of educators from all over the world.

Hermès “FLÂNEUR FOREVER” UK Windows

April 3, 2015

Over Christmas were commissioned to design and make the windows for Hermès across all it UK stores. It was a really exciting project for us as the brief was so broad and open to interpretation so after some thought we settled on this:

“Depicting the flaneur’s day dreams and thoughts as he absorbs the city, celebrating the architecture and utopian hopes of the first urban city planners creating a modern metropolises for the future under a blue sky. We create a world in which Hermès products become part of the city scene. The four windows depict scenarios from sepia photos of the city landscape, the flâneur by the river, in the parks, in the grand magasin, at the exhibitions, viewed through rose tinted spectacles.”

and in keeping with Hermès strong traditional craftmanship we set about designing and making intricate wooden architecture inhabited by Hermès products, paper trees and pigeons. Many people contributed to the making process and it was very exciting to see it develop and come together. The Building Artworking, Paper trees and pigeons where sculpted and made at our studio by Esther Langley, Claudia Forsbrey, Beth Collier, Marie Isobel, Liria Pristine & Monica Storrs. Pewter Pigeon Feet cast by Chris Baxter, Plywood Printing and CNCing at Arc Printers, this was then constructed and installed by Set Builders Andy Knight.

: The 4 initial design sketches

: We then modelled up all the different window shapes and sizes.

: Collaging Old Sepia Photographs & Engravings together we created our utopian vision of the city

: Some theames had to be adapted to different window formats at Harrods

: and Selfridges

: We then had to Artwork every layer and surface of the model with the building textures

: The intricate bandstand rails where lasor cut and painted to blend with the phototextures

: the trees where constructed with a wire trunk armature before being covered in air drying modeling clay

: we added a bark texture

: the studio Bathroom became the polycarving room to try to i keep the polystyrene snow contained!

: After a lot of sculpting and carving the trees are ready for there leaves

: The paper leaves are then pinned onto the polystyrene

: First mock up of the Paper pigeon net pattern before the phototexture was applied

: The moulded pewter pigeon feet

: Feet on

: The pigeon production line

: waiting for there heads to go on

: the pigeon family

: The finished structures

: The bandstand

: The intricate lasor cutting

: Packing up ready to install

I expect a lot of find out here future joint projects and collaboration.

Molton Brown Mirror Lake, London via Sichuan

March 4, 2015

We where lucky enough to get to work again with the team from Molton Brown on their Sichuan inspired Blossoming Honey suckle & White Tea Campaign, recreating the famous mirror lake as a water set build in London. The process was really exciting first making a miniature model to test the reflections in the water and to see how the water dye worked, to building the whole set full size, layering the mountains and creating a lake shore line from plants to create perspective. The whole set was then magically brought to life by the Sandra Freij’s fantastic photography and lighting techniques with a smoke machine transforming the studio to a hot summers afternoon. Ive always wanted to do a water set… favourite project so far !