September 6, 2011
Photographer : Luke Kirwan, Art Director : Mary Lees, Set Designer : Petra Storrs, Set Design Assistant : Tash Dean
It took a lot of PVA glue and hell of a lot of glitter but in the end the Virgin shots came out great. Luke Kirwan took some lovely shots of out glitter city scape for the in-flight Virgin Atlantic magazine, winging its way to your seat pocket the next time you fly Virgin.
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we where given an open breif so our initial idea was to create the view from an areoplane window
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using glitter to recreate the sparkeling lights of a city
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I love these Anish Kapoor Sulptures covered in powder
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I also wanted to have the buildings emerginf from the clouds
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more views from the areoplane window…
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Testing out our powder paint and glitter colours
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testing gliter shapes
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creating the wooden structure of the city scape
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and deciding on the product placement within the shot
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we chose this light silvery blue in a thin glitter texture
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everything had to be covered in two coats of pva and glitter
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pictures on Lukes monitor
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the finished cover