Design Storytelling

I’ve been a fan of Georgia Russell’s beautifully delicate cut paper work for some time now. How wonderful to see her new work featured on designboom.

It’s fascinating to me, as a multidisciplinary designer, how artists can be so focused on one technique and find such depth and breadth in that medium.

Russell is constantly evolving her distinctive scalpel work into new realms.

Here’s a photo collage I made after visiting my friend’s amazing Soho art studio last week.

The enormously talented Annabel Emson is working in the recently opened Space studios. Annabel told me she’s currently making paintings made up of fragmented points of view on small individual canvases. I thought it only appropriate to make a fragmented photo collage of memories in her work space.

The studio has a wall of enormous windows which let in an almost blinding light while looking out onto a vast construction site on Oxford Street. I love the idea of Annabel and the builders working side by side constructing entirely different creations. The real solidity and earthiness of a building site next to the vibrant ephemeral abstract beauty of Annabel’s painting.

What a contrast.

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