Losing my full time job...

If you follow me on twitter you will already know this, but if not.....the place I work full time has closed down and me and all my colleagues have been made redundant. This is such sad news as I've only been working there for one month full time, but well over four/five years on and off.

I first started working with Muji as a part time Christmas temp, then as a regular part time member of staff, and most recently as a full time member of staff - but now I've been made redundant. I was really enjoying my job, the people, the place and the products we sold were all great, now after only just making the decision to go back to full time work I'm forced to look for more full time work.

Losing my job has really had me think about the direction I want to go in now, so soon after I had just made my mind up to work full time. I'm still working on everything Mr Yen, such as working on the re-branding/relaunch which I've scheduled for this August, and I'm still available for commissions and designing papercuts, but I would still love the security of a full time job at the moment and have decided to look into getting a job with a local design agency in Leeds.

Over the last few days I've received the most amazing support over on twitter and facebook, with a few emails of support from people too, which I think this is amazing! It really has helped hearing your comments of support and I've appreciated each one so much.

I would just like to say a huge thank you and I hope I can be there to support you when/if you need it too!

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If you would like to hire me for design work in Leeds, or you would like to commission me to create some paper cuts for you, I would love to connect with you and see what we can create together! 

You can email me here, view my portfolio website here and see the Mr Yen shop here

{Secret Project Reveal!}

So...On Wednesday I posted a WIP image here of something I was secretly working on and now I can reveal... *drum roll please*

I was creating 40 limited edition Valentines papercuts for Lynx (the mens deodorant/fragrance company - aka Axe in Europe ) to give away to some lucky winners! You can find out more here on the Lynx blog. Oh and while your there why not have a look at the new advert! Even Angels will Fall.

Below you can see some imagery I used to generate ideas (the feather images) and the final papercut has pop up wings with papercut text. I wanted the imagery to relate to the advert - hence the feathers, but then decided to group the feathers as wings! This was the first time I really incorporated pop up into one of my papercuts and I think it has a great efffect! Plus I think the feather images would make a nice set of postcards. What do you think?

Final Limited edition Valentines Papercut

{WIP Wednesday}

This is my first week of working freelance and I'm so pleased with how it's going so far! I have had some great work coming in, with a mixture of wholesale orders, collaborations, client work, commissions and actual time to relax!

Today I am working on getting some papercuts finished to be sent out to a few of the nice people who stock my work and getting some papercut whales packed up and sent off to a customer in New York. I have also started to get some kind of organisation going on with everything that is going on - using my letterheads and different titles for a kind of to-do list, lets see how they work out!