YCN- Fedrigoni Visual Merchandising Research

Owen Gildersleeve

His work explores a range of handcrafted techniques and applications and he enjoys collaborating with photographers, animators, and stylists to help bring his ideas to life. Owen's playful, handcrafted creations have won him numerous awards including an ADC Young Guns 9 award in 2011, and a YCN Professional Award in 2014. His work has also been exhibited across the world including London, New York, Tokyo and Bangkok.

Owen's first book Paper Cut was released in June 2014. For this he brought together 25 of the most exciting papercraft artists and illustrators from around the world, delving deep into their working practice, through in-depth interviews and rarely seen behind the scenes imagery. The accompanying exhibition launched in August 2014, showcasing original artworks from a selection of the featured artists.

Lydia Kasumi

Lydia Kasumi Shirreff creates unique and diverse paper sculptures for set design, props, advertising and fashion commissions. Represented by JSR Agency, London.

Sarah May 

Sarah May trained as a Fine Artist specialising in sculpture and installation. She has a natural intuition for harmonising elements and for using shape and movement within diverse spatial contexts. Key themes within her practice are based around the physicality of the body, how the body and fashion encounter space and the intimate relationship between materials. 

Establishing her studio in 2007, she has an extensive commercial and editorial client list including, British Vogue, Dazed and Confused, Japanese Vogue, Details, Camper, Paul Smith and American Apparel.

Anna Lomax

Maker and collector, working within the field of Creative Direction and Set Design from still life through to large scale sculptural installation.

Born and bred in South London and currently working in East London, fascinated by the bizarre and off-key, pop-culture, folk art, pound shops and collecting. Intrigued by inventions, colour, movement and scale. Celebrating a sense of playfulness and humour through placing unlikely objects, textures and colours in to new environments.