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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.

YOUR MESSAGES for moleskine at the Frankfurt Bookfair. Day 1 and 2.

We have stamped more than 500 postcards so far at the Frankfurt Bookfair. If you are in Frankfurt, the fair is open to the public on saturday and sunday. Come and make your message! You can see more at Moleskine website and on Flickr.

SNAP ON for Moleskine

 

We have customized a series of bags for Moleskines Travelling Collection. Here is a stop-motion documentation of the process. Soundtrack by the wonderful Sounds and sons.

Your Messages. From Me to You! Making postcards at Frankfurt Bookfair

We are so excited to be in Frankfurt Bookfair where we are doing a Stamp Workshop for Moleskine. Visitors can make stories using our stamps as a starting point. Here is a peek view of the stamps and the postcards. Follow our blog this week where we will post progress and results!

PEPSICO FINANCE: Making a better place to work.

We did a workshop with Pepsico Finance before the summer where the goal was to identify How to make a better place to work. We made 5 posters to memorate the content, which was framed and displayed in their offices. The themes were: My Skills, My Environment, My Work-Life Balance, My Career and My Team.

SWIMS: seduce the rain!

We are excited to present SWIMS, a truly great Norwegian brand that make colourful, practical and sexy accessories for rainy days! Well, it is not only accessories, it is essentials. They make wonderful galoshes that protect our shoes from being wet and damaged during typical London weather. They make rainproof coats which are rainproof! They make many more products, please click here to view more!

And, we are super happy to collaborate with them to illustrate their new packaging for galsohes which illustrate a mystical, Don Draper like character that jumps in between puddles, happily and stylishly. His surroundings are reflected in the water and the underlaying illustrations are inspired by weather forecast graphics which also state the amount of rain days in different cities.

Now, you know where to go to get the most out of your SWIMS attire!

Paul Smith Milan: Mural No:5

We were in Milan this summer to paint our 5th mural for Paul Smith Showroom. Here is a teaser for you to see until we publish all the photos taken. It is super colourful, bold, geometric and organic. Chaos and order, contradictions, contra-compositions and playful.

The Riffle Shuffle: a random workshop-maker!

We are excited to share our first app! We developed idea, concept, design and content for this as a purpose of being a learning tool for the Skinners Academy in London. We commissioned Less Rain to develop the technical structure and the functions of the app and you can download it on Itunes to try it out.

The Riffle Shuffle is a common shuffling technique
also called a dovetail shuffle (see our logo),
in which half of the deck is held in each hand
with the thumbs inwards.

The cards are released by the thumbs and
they fall interleaved back towards the table.
Our idea with this app is that workshops are shuffled
and randomly interleaved for you to explore.

The Riffle Shuffle pilot v.1
is a workshop maker for teachers, parents and pupils.
Instructions: Select a task, a method, a material, a tool,
clue cards and a way of evaluating your workshop.

The clue cards add complexity to your workshop
by randomly providing a set amount of clues
that have to be included in the making of your workshop.
Follow the workshop made by the Riffle Shuffle
or be inspired to make your own workshop
that fits your purpose.

Send your comments, feedback, showcase
and suggestions to
hello@theriffleshuffle.com

Thomas Tallis: Vinyl Wall Stickers: Do not be afraid.