Lizzie Mary Cullen: Off the Wall!

What a great talk we went to tonight at Creative Networks and this time it wasn't from someone who has been in the industry for many years, it was by an emerging star, Lizzie Mary Cullen. Lizzie is a multi award-winning designer specialising in illustration and graphic design and was described as one of the industry’s ‘leading lights’ by Design Week. Her work has a real Mucha-esque feel to it which we really love especially when it's carried off as well as this!

Image 'Specials' © Lizzie Mary Cullan

Lizzie's First Solo Show at Artefact at the Framers Gallery

All proceeds went to the Big Issue Foundation. Dan Radcliffe (of Harry Potter fame) and John Bird (founder of The Big Issue) were there to show their support. Be sure to check out her joke at 1:14 - it'll have ya in stitches :D

Merry Doodle: 2010 - Blue Hive Agency Christmas Card
Blue Hive needed an Xmas card to generate buzz for their new agency. Lizzie filled a 12m x 3m 'Doodle Wall' in their office with tweeted messages all live on webcam. All this was uploaded to Flickr and in just 3 days they "received thousands of tweets, logged over 2,800 live viewer hours and saw a 632% increase in traffic" to their website. Amazing!

Lizzie drawing for Zizzi, Covent Garden

This stop motion creation of 'Bow Street Zizzi' was filmed over three days. What a beautiful large-scale mural and absolutely stunning to see it being produced start to finish.

We've both been really inspired and it definitely goes to show that you can learn from creative people at every stage in their career, not just the well seasoned professionals (although there's plenty to learn from them too!) A really entertaining night, packed full of funny anecdotes and giggles. Thanks Lizzie!

To see more of Lizzie's work visit her website here:
www.lizziemarycullen.com

Or, if you're into bird seed follow her tweets on twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/LizzieMCullen