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Woooooop! Check out my ui pal Helen Stevens wallpaper for Graham and Brown as featured in this months living etc! Soooooper proud of you Hun!

Check out some of her other work at http://www.surfacephilia.co.uk

Surfacephilia is a UK based surface pattern design studio that creates luxurious bohemian patterns for the design industry. As well as working on commissioned illustrations and patterns for other brands, Surfacephilia manufactures it’s own collections of digitally printed wallpaper, luxury fabrics, cushions and china, selling online and through other studios and shops internationally. Surfacephilia was launched at London Design Festival in September 2011, and has since been described in The Telegraph Magazine as 'one to watch' and Glass magazines 'Top 5 designers to have in your home'. Our wallpapers have graced the walls of many hotels, retail shops, TV show sets, magazine editorials and residential homes around the world.

Helen Stevens owner and designer at Surfacephilia, graduated back in 2002 with a first in BA Hons Textiles and Surface Design and has worked within industry ever since, from print design at Red Or Dead to degree lecturing. Helen's hand rendered approach towards surface pattern has become her signature style, and her bold and experimental designs are built up using layering of intricate and often repetitive drawings, paintings and textures that have been lifted directly from precious sketchbook pages.

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MIKE WINS CRYSTAL BEAR AT THE 2014 BERLINALE

A little belated but back in February we won a Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film at the Berlinale.

Mike is currently doing the rounds on the worldwide film festival circuit with our long awaited preview to be held at Raindance! Wooop!

Director: Petros Silvestros

DOP: Nikos Antritsakis

Production Designer: Emma Winter

Produced by Irresistible

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Behind the Scenes Making of the Footlocker Multi Sensory Experience

In under 10 day days from concept to completion...

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Footlocker Triple Black Challenge

An immersive sensory experience to launch Foot Locker’s new “Triple Black” trainer collection.

Commissioned as art director by Found studio, AMV BBDO set us the exciting challenge to create an event in which members of the public, and VIPs, could win pairs of “triple black” trainers by finding them in complete darkness. To make things more interesting, we were asked to add in some “obstacles” along the way…

Conceived and produced in just nine days, we built a 13x8m set in a warehouse, which housed a maze of different rooms designed to disorientate our challengers. Each challenger entered the space with no idea of what to expect. They were then presented with a huge black box with a shaft of light protruding from an opening. Cautiously they would enter the box and make their way down an internal corridor, at the end of which was a “briefing room” where the rules of the challenge were read to them by a mysterious voice. After this the lights would go out and they were left to work their way through a series of rooms and challenges.

Firstly, a “bees room” with disconcerting sound effects, then a balloon chamber, an installation room with an array of real and fake limbs protruding from the walls, and finally a corridor filled with polystyrene balls, wind machines and strobe lights creating a dizzying vortex. Once the trainers had been found, the challengers had ten seconds to escape.

Filming in complete darkness was a challenge not only for the cameras but also for the film crew that needed to also navigate their way, unsuspected, through the rooms. As a result, the live action was captured using night vision infra-red cameras and the set was designed to have removal walls and two-way mirrors to allow the film crew to shoot into the rooms without the challenger’s knowledge.

All the cameras were controlled remotely from a live room at the back of the set, as well as dynamic lighting design by Punchdrunk collaborator Mike Gunning, and sound fx by Altitude Music.

Client: Foot Locker Agency: AMV BBDO Creative Direction: Zac Ellis & Rich Littler

Production Co: Found Director: Marcus Moresby Producer: Joe Binks

DOP: Greg Taylor Art Direction: Emma Winter Lighting Design: Mike Gunning Music and Sound Design: Altitude Music Infra-red cameras: Minicams

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