Welcome to GILLES & CECILIE BLOG

FRIDAY IS DRAWING DAY

Running a studio requires a lot of admin, calling for new projects, telling about our work and much more. We love it when we can spend time drawing, thinking and making new stories. Happy weekend!

Capsule Collection for Jennyfer Paris

We designed a collection of T-shirts for the french youth brand Jennyfer. The collection is called Say it Out Loud and had statements inspired by music and youth culture. Here you can buy them in Jennyfers webshop.

TYPOGRAPHY BADGES

We have a badges machine in our studio. These badges we made for Skinners' Academy to build a title sequence for video diaries. You can see the film on our vimeo site http://vimeo.com/gillesandcecilie

 

Sweets from Mela

Mela was visiting us last week in our studio. It was a nice day and we played some football inside. Mela brought some nice sweets. Mela makes great stuff for your home! Visit her website here.

DRAWING LUND BRØD: a new micro bakery in Toten, Norway.

photos taken by Phen Hunter, George Grassie and Gilles & Cecilie.

Check them out and become a fan on Lund Brød on Facebook . Read their Lund Brød Blog.

Lund Brød is 2 scotsmen Phen Hunter and George Grassie which is making excellent Sourdough bread, brioche, cider baguettes and breads for their local community around Lund in Toten, Norway.

We are proud makers of free flowing graphics and illustrations to wrap their products. Our first commission where to make a paperbag for the bread. The print is an illustration of a set table, busy with conversations on how we like our bread and what to put on. Everything from just butter to dipping it in milk.

We also made an illustrated woodboard using a pyrograph when we last visited in the beginning of may. Above you can see snapshots of the board and the packaging.

PAUL SMITH: work in progress

We take a lot of photos of work in progress. Here is a selection of images from painting Paul Smith wall in Milan.

BLACK ORCHIDS, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Wallpainting at Rai Promocoes, SP, Brazil, 2012. Inspired by nature, black orchids, mystical connections between nature and positive energy. Sophisticated, sexy colours mixed with magic rainbow colours.

SKETCHES from Brazil

Peekview into our sketchbook. Watercolours, ink and pencil works. We spent january and part february in Sao Paulo and Rio in Brazil. Staying with friends and inspired by the tropical vibes. We had a lot of time to draw this time since the rain was pouring down for weeks.

LOOKING AT 2011

Hello All. It's january and we are looking through our archive for 2011.Here is a celebration of all the projects we did last year.

Poster for RED campaign in the US with our rep Vaughan Hannigan.

Painted the lounge of Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania with our Rock Formations and Meteor compositions.

We met the wonderful designer Johan Ringdal and his brand SWIMS.

We were commissioned to create illustrations for their galoshes.

In may we did a creative workshop with Pepsico Finance

as well as designing a series of posters for their offices.

We finalised a teaching project for Skinners Academy in north London (funded by A New Direction)

and we made our first app together with Less Rain, called the Riffle Shuffle.

We painted Paul Smith Showroom in Milan.

We designed a capsule collection for the french brand Jennyfer.

Then we worked with TRY/ APT to create visuals for Norwegian bank DNB events in Norway.

We worked with the wonderful Made by Nina to create Signage and Super Graphics

for Thomas Tallis School in South London.

We were also participating in a project for DOVE beauty for NOUS.

We made a digital promo for Glasses & Braces in America.

We were commissioned by Moleskine to make a creative event at the Frankfurt Bookfair.

For the holidays we made a special email xmas card for Vaughan Hannigan

that the receiver could print out, fold and assemble to create an origami star.

We made a second event for Moleskine in Paris with our illustrated rubber stamps.

At the end of the year we made the new Brompton Bicycle brochures laid out in 18 different languages.

Now, we have already made a plan of in house studio projects that we want to create and we are looking forward to embark new projects with old and new commissioners.

Happy new year.

streets of oslo

Sometimes, we walk with no destination. Getting lost in a city is a great way to explore. Here are some snaps we took in Oslo last summer. We walked eastbound through Gamlebyen and along the train tracks, through holes in the fence, up weedy staircases, under bridges and through passages, passing painted leaves and ending up on a hidden ramp with a city view.

Happy holiday

Happy holidays from Gilles & Cecilie. We hope you are inspired to be creative and make stuff for the ones you love!

Painting PAul smith milan

We painted this wall for Paul Smith in Milan this summer. Finally, we have organised our photo archive and here are some more details from the wall. It's super colourful with hand-drawn swirly details. We have been using spray paint and acrylic paint to achieve a diversity of textures in the colours.

Drawing Cakes

I wouldn't mind being a patissiere. I love drawing on cakes, and the best thing is that you can eat everything. Cakes make people happy! I learned how to make macaroons this month and I made a Torta Paradiso for Gilles' birthday!

Talking about G&C studio at Ravensbourne

Visiting Ravensbourne College in their new premises at Greenwich North. Talking about our studio from the start until now.

Cecilies new sketchbook

This is Cecilies new sketchbook for drawing cityscapes. Hopefully we will show you new illustrations soon!

BOOKBINDING: Chelsea College

Cecilie used to work at the Wyvern Bindery, where she learnt to make wonderful books. We use bookbinding a lot in our studio work and we hold workshops in between at colleges, for other designers and for businesses. This november we have been in Chelsea College and Winchester School of Arts making books. Above you can see details from bookbinding sessions at Chelsea.

SNAP ON: moleskine: customized bags

We customized Moleskine Messenger Bag, Reporter Bag and Laptop Case for a special diplay at the Frankfurt Bookfair. Here you can see some of the details. We used rivets, snap on buttons, leather and felt to create pockets and systems for attaching items to the bags. The small purses are attached with ribbons and can be removed to leave the bag only with a rivet pattern at the front. Have a look at Moleskine Travel Collection here.

This is our studio in Redchurch Street.

YOUR MESSAGES for Moleskine at the Frankfurt Bookfair. Thanks all for making beautiful postcards.

 

 

YOUR MESSAGES for moleskine at the Frankfurt Bookfair. Day 3 and 4.

Here you can see all the stamps we made together in one spread.