Everything is crazy right now!

Wow, it has been a long time since I last blogged and to be honest I don't know where to begin. A lot has happened and changed within the past couple of months. All good of course and I am determined to get back into this blog.

I have been working on a lot since May, I have been to London at the Real Food Festival, Birmingham at BBC Good Food Show, finished my internship at National Museums Liverpool, designed and made some exhibition boards for the National Wild Flower Centre, made some props, oh and how could I forget, moved into a studio. I will elaborate more on each of these when it all comes back to me.

Knowing me I have undoubtedly forgot something, I always do. If you have visited my site before, you will have noticed the new logo and change of site. I am still not 100% happy with the site, I never will be until I can pay someone proper to do it, but I'm a lot happier with it now than I was before.

What do people think of the logo? I'm a little obsessed with black and white at the moment and wanted something really simple.

So yes, the new studio! Its wonderful and I love it. Its brilliant having a base and being located in the city centre is perfect. I'm in there with Laura, fellow designer and the other half of the design company we have set up. Strange Case Collective. If you have read my blog you will remember that me and Laura worked together on the Jekyll and Hyde night, with Jen. We worked so well together we decided to make a go of things together and with the use of a studio we can really get stuck into it. At the moment we are working on the event styling for the Blooming Great Tea Party, working on a film as art department with some local film makers and I'm going to be working the Liverpool Food and Drink festival with the wonderful Lauras Little Bakery.

Our wonderful logo was made by Ian Blundell, hes on twitter as @Blundell07 go follow him

I'm only happy when my diary is full though and it definitely is at the moment, I just need to find some time to chill out and actually go and visit people. I'm not going to neglect this blog anymore. Promise!

Darkness in Light

If you read my blog at all you will know that the past couple of months, most of my posts have been about rummaging through antique warehouses, making brains, talking about brains and trying to blag as many props as possible. Well last Friday it all came together and we transformed The Mezzanine in the CUC. I can now very happily announce (if you follow me on twitter this will be old news) that I am officially 1/3 of Strange Case Collective. (Follow us on twitter!) SCC consists of me, Jen and Laura and as we worked so amazingly together for Darkness in Light we thought we'd come up with a name and look for more work as a three, rather than individually. Between the three of us we can do so much and I am getting very very very excited about the 'future'. We don't have an official logo or anything yet, but we made this up to fit within the set, so it will do for now.

A massive blog post is due to come from Strange Case Collective talking all about the night, but for now I'll try to summarise it very quickly. (Im not very good at being breif) The event was brilliant and I can't get over how busy it was. It was hard to move upstairs as even the floor was taken up by people sitting on it. The performers and music were brilliant and it went so quickly. Everyone who we spoke to was so kind and nice about the work we had done and I haven't stopped smiling since then. Here are a few photos and you can see a full album of pictures on the Strange Case Collective flickr.

Jekyll and Hyde within the set

Me, sitting within Jekylls experimentation area! I drank too much poison, hence my glowing eyes!

Again a massive massive massive thank you to Boneface (follow him on twitter, his work is boss!) for the two amazing illustrations he did for us. They are so good!

Everything seems to be coming together now since leaving Uni, I'm really busy but I wouldn't change it for the world and I'm really excited about working with Jen and Laura more and seeing what the future brings. Hopefully we will get to do a lot more in the CUC, as like I've said in previous posts, its my new favourite place.