Family Tree of Love

I completed a family tree papercut commission which was a perfect gift to a father of a loving family.

Check out the timelapse film…

All You Need Is Love from Charlotte Vogel on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday Helen framed paper cut

My cousin loved her Special Space Bunnies Edition Birthday Card so much that she framed it! She did a wonderful job, it's perfect! I did suggest she remove the lettering, as it's on a separate layer, but she was exceptionally happy with it being her birthday all year round! 

V-Day 2014: From Me to H

A space-bunnies themed hand cut concertina card…

…with a sticker on the envelope from my 'I've Always Wanted To Show You' collection… 

… and finally, I made him a little felt raccoon filled with beans so he stands up… 

 … and I wrapped him up in brown paper with another self-made sticker… 

… and sent them off to Germany ❤

Cutie Creature print

I'm thrilled to have a large print of these cute creatures which I've admired for a long time. It's by Köln-based freelance motion-designer André Kniepkamp. I met him in 2009 whilst visiting Köln. He's a dude. This print makes me smile every time I look at it – it's such a lovely, friendly cuddly hug! It reminds me of how I hugged my cat!

Space Bunnies

Finally, my epic January papercut is complete!
This piece took ~8 hours to cut out over two weeks. However, prior to cutting, I spent countless hours originating the idea and preparing a cutting template.

I even filmed myself cutting it and prepared a time-lapse documentation, which you can watch here:
The Cutting of Space Bunnies from Charlotte Vogel on Vimeo.
Some work in progress images:

From this one sheet of paper…


… epic things grew…

Moose Knuckle

Winning entry of the Tatty Devine Hot House Animation competition!

In June, Henning and I worked on a short animation to enter the Tatty Devine Hot House competition. 

We had the idea of working with a travelling mandala. This was a perfect theme for the piece, as the mandala is associated with the far east – hot countries – something the Spring Summer 2013 collection is taking inspiration from.

I started by drawing all the pieces of the Hot House collection in Illustrator… 

I also drew some extra patterns, taking inspiration from henna tattoos. This was a natural connection, inspired from the Tatty Devine Holi party back in March! This is my beautiful faux sister, Auria, with a fresh glitter henna tattoo at the TD Holi party in London, March 13.

I also worked on the title and credit screen, animated background sun rays and sound design.

As the Hot House collection features jungle leaves and animals, it was really important to me that the film had a warm, humid atmosphere and tropical background sound. With the mandala's connection to the far east, it seemed fitting to adorn the scene with the sound of a sitar. This instantly gives the piece a relaxed ambience, which also connects to the mandala's association with meditation. 

The overall effect is a fascinating array of curiosities circling before you…  

The Hot House Mandala from Charlotte Vogel on Vimeo.

It took the majority of the weekend to get it done, but it was well worth the effort. Firstly, we enjoy working collaboratively – sometimes things get hairy, but we always find a way to make things work. Secondly, WE WON! 

Ours was one of three animations chosen to receive a prize and be screened at the London Short Film Festival in January 2014. 

We got a really lovely comment from Harriet Vine: 

“This is one of my favourite entries! I love the soundtrack and the way Charlotte incorporated elements of the collection in the pattern.”

See the other winners here.

A very big thank you to Henning for making making it all come to life! You can see more of his amazing animations here.

The Multilingual Fish Guide

First edition prints of our multilingual fish book are now available to buy on DaWanda. 

Happy Birthday Card

A custom made birthday card ordered through DaWanda…

Fish tiles

I'm working on a book which will be published in Jan 2013.

It's an index of seafood in seven languages. 

I've been working on a pattern design for the endpapers. It's taken me two days to draw.

Inspired by Portuguese ceramic tiles, combined with the theme of sea & fishes, here is my vector-drawn tile design…

© Charlotte Vogel 2013

Final calendar season of 2012

The last of my 2012 desktop wallpapers is available to download now.

Click here to download

Birthday card for mum

My mum deserves nothing less than the finest, most elaborate birthday card I can possibly craft. 
Here I have experimented with making a card where the focal point is spread across the inside of the card, with the outside being blank. 

Here's a work in progress image – I'm cutting from behind this time.

New baby gifts

Gifts for a newly born baby boy. 
Not knowing the baby's gender before, we bought a lovely wooden elephant for the family a few months ago. This inspired the design of the congratulations card with an elephant family, and also the print on a t-shirt for the little big sister.

Summer season 2012 desktop calendar

The new season 3 desktop calendar is now available to download!
Click here – it's free! (9mb)

Magpie card

Handcut birthday card for a friend, who loves Tatty Devine. This design is based on Tatty Devine's iconic Magpie Necklace, which my friend often wears. 

I love the idea of a double sided card – I haven't made one like this before.

Tatty Devine
Magpie Necklace

I had a spare Tatty Devine sticker, so I used this to seal the cellophane wrapper. It finished it off perfectly and has inspired me to have some of my own made for this purpose.