After the massive interest in Louis Vuitton’s Collector windows, LV and Chameleon Visual decided to make a little video of me making the latest animals. Huge thanks to Emma, Clemence and François for making it happen!

Chameleon Visual takes me under their wing again as I make some larger and more exciting bag animals for Louis Vuitton.

These new critters were designed for the launch of Louis Vuitton’s Mon Monogram service for small leather goods. Each animal highlights an element in the design of the products. The Armadillo was to highlight the soft yet durable quality of the leather. The Chameleon displays the variety of colour. The Grasshopper is constructed from products with zips and poppers that make satisfying noises like that of the musically gifted insect. And finally my favorite, the Beaver, who’s functionality chops wood, builds dams…and provides cleaver ways of organising ones life in men’s bags and wallets.

A flowery project for Spring. Art Director, Gael Roussel commissioned me to make this ‘flowerhead’ for a shoot in this June’s issue of JFW (Jewels, Fashion and Watches) magazine.

The Issue is out now and can also be viewed online here.

I particularly love the final shot where our gentleman has been plucked….

A really fun job for Blind Summit, some giant woman’s shoes for Royal Academy Opera’s premier production of ‘Kommilitonen.’ Carved from poly-foam, each shoe was 60cm from heal to toe.

‘Kommilitonen’ is performing at Sir Jack Lyons Theatre from the 18th March 2011.

My Bag animals have made it across the pond!

Louis Vuitton’s ‘Collector’ window scheme from the New Bond Street Maison, has now been unveiled in New York. (See previous post for more information).

Earlier this year I was approached by Chameleon Visual to produce some very unique creatures. I was commissioned to make 20 animals, presented in dome jars for the debut windows of Louis Vuitton’s New Bond Street Maison.

Each bespoke animal was carefully constructed out of genuine Louis Vuitton bags, purses and accessories.

The window went live on the 28th May 2010. Photos provided by Louis Vuitton. Other great photos of the windows can be viewed here and here.

One of my first jobs out of university was advising and assisting in the design and production of some very low budget special effects for a music video by Tom Haines for Tunng’s ‘Bullets’.

Tom came to me with the idea of creating a spinning satellite of junk in space. My inital job was to work out a way of achieving this on very little budget. After lost of uncertainty of whether or not the job would go ahead, plans went into action and a team of students from Tech Arts at Wimbledon College of Art came together to make it happen.

Every one had a hand in gathering the masses of retro junk it took to cover the satellite, which was extremely heavy when finished and took a lot of man power to spin in front of the blue screen. A second structure was made that allowed us to huddle inside to operate rudimentary puppets and make objects spin as if powered by the satellite.

‘Bullets’ by Tunng from tunng on Vimeo.

Working under the artistic direction of Three Muses, commissioned by ‘The Sine Star Project‘ for their album ‘Building Humans’ but unfortunately never used. The life-size skeleton was constructed from tracing paper and where that was too flimsy, a flexible plastic substitute. It’s lungs were constructed from transparent mung bean noodles set in PVA. It also has a glowing heart, a light bulb inside a tracing paper, origami, ‘stellated icosahedron’, or to you and I – star.