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I love to laugh, constantly change my mind and enjoy discovering new things and meeting new people. Scrabble, red wine, cups of tea, sarcasm, music and general witty banter make up my life on a general day-to-day basis.

Tuesday 25 January 2011

Work in Progress: Ellen's Bio.

Ellen (a.k.a my lovely flatmate) and I are helping each other out; I'm using this blog to try and work towards journalism (here's hoping anyway!) and she is in the process of setting up her own design business. Here's a first draft of her bio that I've done for her. Watch this space for the press release...


A recent graduate from Northumbria University, Ellen Thomas is a British furniture and product designer, currently based in the North East of England. In 2010, she qualified with an Upper Second (2:1) Classification in Three Dimensional Design, and has since gained a place on Northumbria University’s ‘Designers in Residence’ scheme. With the use of this scheme, she is in the process of establishing her own furniture and product design company.
Ellen’s designs contrast iconic products and furniture with a more contemporary twist, due to the designer’s beliefs that attitudes in current society towards such items are too disposable. Her motivation and focus behind her work is to create beautiful and contemporary designs with a sense of added value, in order to encourage the owner to form an attachment with her designs and that the pieces will be kept and cherished.
Ellen’s work has been showcased as exhibits including ‘New Designer’s “Homework”’ at ‘Mint’, ‘On the road’ at Saatchi and Saatchi and Design MART in 2010. The new designer has entered 2011 with her furniture collection ready for online retail, and is in the process of gaining retail outlets.

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