Studio XAG.

I came across studio XAG the other day, a visual merchandising and  art direction  team who have designed and installed some amazing bespoke window displays for people such as Christian Louboutin, Diesel and Fred Perry.
The 'Cattarpillar' window they installed for Christian Louboutin is so fun and quirky and visually stunning, I love their use of paper within the design.

As well as doing window displays and interior fits they also do fascia installations, I'm not a huge fan of the Diesel brand but I love the way Studio XAG transformed the front of the Carnaby street store into a 'radio'.

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Trunks and Cases

Still dreaming of a holiday reminded me of some dressing I did at work a few months ago.....
The theme was a 'European Tour', I got some vintage trunks and cases and placed some old-style holiday stamps on them to age and give the feeling of fun travel memories. I also got some lovely real second hand postcards from a market (Spitafields market in Shoreditch sells lots of these).

Friday Inspiration Post.

I always love Set Designer Shona Heath's work and this 'Starsigns' piece she did for British Vogue last year is a favourite.

Old award news.

Image from 'Edith' 2010- Northern Film School.

(Production design by moi.)

This is old news but my graduation film 'Edith' was long-listed this year for a BAFTA short film award......Amazing. I am so proud that my final year university film would even noticed by bafta let alone considered for a nomination so I was more that chuffed.

Some work...

With all the wedding fever going on (did you notice) my work joined it and we did a commercial for a ' Best of British' Event. The idea was to create a typical street party, so we overtook a corner of Battersea park and I went wild with bunting, balloons, sausage rolls and all things red, white and blue....Here's a few images of the finished 'set'.



It made me feel very patriotic!

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Stephane TV.

Tonight I am going to watch Michel Gondrys (♥) 'Science of Sleep' because I remembered how good it was. The design is so playful and limitless it is definatley in my top 10 'if i couldve worked on any film i would have worked on...' list. With the art direction being done by Pierre Pell and Stéphane Rozenbaum i love the way they captured the main character's; Stephane (played by Gael García Bernal) slighy blurred reality and his hyper active imagination. The line between awake and asleep is disstorted but wonderful. I love how crafted everything is in the film. It could have easiy had some clever little effects to make it abit different but it doesn't. Everything looks like it is made by hand and that you yourself could make it. The sets are so low tech but great. Stephane's Tv studio is by far my favourite, egg cartons will definatly be making an appearence in a film of mine one day!

I have a film crush on Michel Gondry.