Emmas

Emmas blog never fails to inspire me and I have found myself looking through her lovely collection of images a lot recently.  Here are just a few, why don't you check out her site for yourself.  Grab a cuppa first as you will likely be rooted to the computer once you start looking.  Emmas was voted one of the best 50 design blogs by the Times, and I can't agree more.  Its a great blog, choc-full of inspiration.

Mystery in the moonlight

I should have saved these 'til Halloween but couldn't wait to share ( and I will probably forget!) Found these lovely images via ffffound and Haute Macabre. They feature Claudia Schiffer and were shot for a Harpers Bazaar magazine shoot - I love this old style which I think has been recreated so well here.

Photo shoot for Sheffield Institute of Art and Design

New pics from the work my boyfriend, Chris Wilkinson has been working on for the new Sheffield Institute of Art and Design brochure. Its worth checking out his flickr site as the colors seem to go rather dull when I uploaded these.  He created the concept, design, styling and objects for the photoshoot (the workshop and light components were made by the art technician at SHU).   The photographer is the up and coming Tom Jackson, who has worked on some fantastic projects. Other images from an earlier shoot for the brochure are a bit further down this page.

Photoshoot

The colour has gone really dull for some reason when I uploaded these - check out much better versions of the images here.

Sorry, for the lack of posts recently, I have been so busy with my new job, preparing for a huge workshop which I did on Thursday (more on that later) and have recently come down with a very nasty lurgie - so I'm feeling pretty sorry for myself today!  Apart from being busy and ill recently I have been helping out with a project my boyfriend has been been working for the Sheffield Iinstitute of Art and design's prospectus for Sheffield Hallam University.  He came up with the concept and designed and made the objects for the photoshoot - I made the fabric words and helped with that shoot and I helped him make the cardboard letters which took us about 20 hours to do - gluing 80 layers of card for each letter!  Tom Jackson, a young and talented photographer who has set up in the last year and already worked with the likes of Tado and Peter & Paul, was the photographer on the shoot.

And now for something a bit different...

Setting up

The end result

... Last week I was lucky enough to help out Chris who was art directing a photoshoot for a project he is working on for an end of year degree show programme called the Creative Spark at Sheffield Hallam University.   It was great to see how he works and what a huge amount of work goes into getting just one shot - the picture above took us 3 hours to get set up and then the photographer, Nick, had to spend time arranging and rearranging lights - it certainly makes you appreciate the work that goes into it all!