Peepshow Collective
Book design for Index Book

Latest book design by Studio EMMI, Peepshow Collective, is a chance to delve into the Peepshow imagination, scanning collective and individual work from the past decade and glimpsing future directions. It's also a rare chance to see behind the pixels, an interview with all of Peepshow's members offering their take on where they start, when they decide to stop, and what happens in between.

















Peepshow has achieved a rare alchemy: corralling a set of unique visual talents into a cohesive, and hugely influential, collective. Over the past decade, the London based group have worked across illustration, animation, set design, textiles and art direction for such clients as the Victoria & Albert Museum, M&C Saatchi, BBC, The New York Times and SHOWstudio, while also creating their own work for books, exhibitions and events worldwide. They’ve represented the best of British image-making at expos for The British Council and The Museum of Modern Art in Japan, and have featured in shows at the ICA, the Hayward Gallery and Somerset House.

Despite, or because of, their focus on the individual, Peepshow as a group have become a force to be reckoned with. Instead of fitting themselves into a pre-existing mould, the ten members have together created their own market.







Peepshow is Luke Best, Jenny Bowers, Miles Donovan, Chrissie Macdonald, Pete Mellor, Marie O’Connor, Andrew Rae, Elliot Thoburn, Lucy Vigrass and Spencer Wilson.

peepshow.org.uk

254 pages, over 600 illustrations with interviews and essays by Alex Bec, Graham Rawle, Margaret Huber and Peter Nencini.

Cover Photography by Stephen Lenthall
Book Photography by Jere Salonen

Available here

Peepshow Collective's Museum of Objects & Origins
Exhibition Graphics
Pick Me Up at Somerset House, London, UK








The Museum of Objects & Origins was a collection of artefacts including drawings, objects, prints and costumes. Exhibiting items from an invented past, the collection was also a living, growing display as themed workshops created new works to fill the final few cabinets. Studio EMMI created the Museum's identity and exhibition graphics.















Museum of Objects & Origins was set up by the artist in residence Peepshow Collective at Pick Me Up, the UK’s first annual contemporary graphic art fair, returned for its biggest edition yet in March 2012. The fair showcased the best new work from around the UK and the world with original works and prints available to purchase and a multitude of events and workshops to take part in.









You can view the Museum's archive here.
Photos by Jere Salonen.

Peepshow is Luke Best, Jenny Bowers, Miles Donovan, Chrissie Macdonald, Pete Mellor, Marie O’Connor, Andrew Rae, Elliot Thoburn, Lucy Vigrass and Spencer Wilson.

peepshow.org.uk

Artek Catalogues
Europe & North America










Part of Studio EMMI's ongoing projects with Artek, we have updated the Artek Product Catalogue and designed one for Artek lights only. Below you can see invite designs following the same design theme.



Photos by Jere Salonen

Wonderwater Fozen Lights
Helsinki, Finland
















Photos by Aino Huovio


Wonderwater Frozen Lights was a dramatic installation of ice lanterns in Helsinki’s Senate Square to celebrate the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, Finland. The display aimed to help raise awareness of the water footprint. Two massive ice blocks from Lapland each represented the water footprint of 3 873 litres used daily per person in Finland, while 150 litre ice lanterns represented the domestic use per person in Finland.

Illuminating the darkest season of the year, Wonderwater invited designers and architects to sculpt lanterns on site. The designer teams included: Artek Studio, Ilkka Suppanen, Team Brita Flander, Sebastian Jansson & MottoWasabi, Architect Group A6 and Team Aalto University. In the sprit of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 theme of openness and collaboration, the people of Helsinki were invited to participate by designing their own ice lantern and bringing it to the event.

Studio Emmi has designed both the Wonderwater and Wonderwater Frozen Lights logos.

Common Interest: Documents

Written and designed by Emmi Salonen, and published by Index Book, Common Interest: Documents explores document design and format solutions in the fields of arts, culture, academia, public sector and charities. Displayed, handed out or sold in art galleries, at cultural events and at other public places, these designs are widely accessible by everyone.







Including close to one hundred case studies from up to eighty design practices, this book is a practical guide and a rich source of graphic creativity in this genre for designers and clients alike. These resourceful and creative design solutions, achieved without large corporate budgets, focus on economical and environmental solutions as well as unique production and finishing techniques. Each study lists print and paper choices, together with details on finishing.

Common Interest is available to buy from selected bookshops across the UK, Amazon and Studio EMMI shop.











Photos by Jere Salonen