The Warhol Screens

These one of a kind wall mounted lighting installation pieces, titled The Warhol Screens, explore the idea of grand design and art gallery proportions. These pieces, which are ideal for lofts, art gallery, showrooms, and larger installtion spaces in offices or wide open-spaced homes, offer a clean luxurious soft lighting. They are made by hand in the artists studio, with no two being the exact same. Each photo is carefully selected for color and placement and the overal look is prescribed uniqely to each installation. The deep colored trim is smooth and organic in contrast to the vintage iconographic photographs, dated victorian newspapers, or antiquated music sheets used to create the light screen. Each screen is hand made, and the topography of the ridges and valleys of the central piece is unique and one of a kind to each piece. The inspiration from these larger than life pieces came from the work of Andy Warhol in his study of iconic faces and moments in time which have lasted over the ages in our minds. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor. All integrated into a flowing tapestry of light and movie history. Presented in soft organic lighting, and bold enough to become a conversation piece in any grand space.

Trained as a classic architect, Jeffrey Michael the designer started off his designs 5 years ago in Canada. He moved fluently between architecture and lighting design during this time in his projects. After several trips to Paris and London, this collection features the presentation of many years of reflection and study into the dynamics between iconic aged imagery in his lighting design. His other collections also feature sit and stand lamps with vintage papers including ones fashioned with old shakespearian poetry and old vintage comics to create unique one of a kind lamps.

Height by Width - 1.73 meter by 1.73 - vintage movie stills - lit from behind, fire proofed, max 60 watt bulbs - energy efficient, LED, or low wattage bulbs
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http://www.jeffreymichaeldesign.co.uk/
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These pieces are soon going to be entering into a lovely furniture art gallery fusion, "The Collections", in Chelsea on Kings Road in London, under the direction of a fantastic arts buyer. It marks the high end range of the Jeffrey Michael Design lighting collection and is a sneak preview from my autumn winter collection for next season. It has been a labor of love and in the future you will see me using more iconic images in more of a stencilled, exciting light and shadow way. These will be the pieces that garner the adoration of the people, as they will portray the royalty of our time in a way that Andy originally debut his pieces in his time. To us some of them have lost their luster, but images like Marilyn and Elvis and Liz have lived on into our pop culture as vibrant and bright images.

(Now available in store for purchase)
Jeffrey xx

On The Set - Rimmel Makeup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c0ym7JzVfE&feature=related

Finally revealed is the commercial I worked on last October, for Rimmel London, "get the london look" who's fabulous new spokeswomen are Georgia May Jagger and Coco Rocha. I had the honor and privelege of working with miss Jagger, and had the joy of her signing the British Vogue that came out that same month with her on the cover (of which she delightfully said was the first autograph she had ever been asked to sign!!). It was delightful to be on set, and Georgia could command a complete silence of about 50 odd people when she walked into the room from makeup. Young, beautiful and perfectly what Rimmel is all about.

Linked on this page half way down is the "the making of video" , behind the scenes for both scenes in the arcade, and the internal tunnel which were both giant sets completely created from nothing. http://www.rimmellondon.com/UK/OurFace/OurModelLooks.aspx?look=125

It was an amazing experience to watch over two days a white set the size of which could hold a small ship, to be transformed into a working arcade, and visually identical tube station. Between takes we actually were encouraged to play into the games which worked incase of need for background models (which didn't happen sadly!) In the behind the scenes you can see the first glimpses of the motorcycles and Georgia trying to hit the line, "get the london look" camera straight on, hair flowing. Amazing to view, amazing to help with !

My job on set was to light the fabulous motorcycles, which were made to resemble arcarde games. The whole concept of the commercial was the girls "racing to the finish line" between Georgia and another up and coming beauty, Flip (her name) . The two girls started with a walk off, and then hopped on the 15 000 £ motor bikes to then race on. My job was to install the side lighting and game lighting to give the very masculine realistic motorcycle, a playful simulated look. The lighting used was color change LED nodes on sticky tape, which was attached and followed the lines of the motorcycle. Linked wirelessly to a controller I was onset for two days playing with the flashing colors which went from a static pinkish purple, to then flash through blue, red , green and yellow.

An amazing learning adventure, and totally professional cast and crew, and a lovely new cover model Georgia May Jagger for Rimmel London.

Links to the cover of Georgia - British Vogue November 09 - http://models.com/work/british-vogue-british-vogue-november-cover/12984

Link to Coco Rocha fab site - http://www.coco-rocha.com/

Link again to the commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c0ym7JzVfE&feature=related

Rendered Images of motorcycles by Morgan Kennedy and thanks to everyone on set ! Fantastic

Jeffrey xx

300 Friends - Set and Lighting Design

An amazing debut for Jeffrey Michael Design, creating the Set and Lighting Design for 300 Friends, a play by Sarah Elaine Stewart. An up and coming director with a talent for creating moving and resenating moments, Sarah has her own theatre company which claims space at this site here : http://www.whitespacetheatre.com/ We met several months ago quite by chance through friends and began upon a journey that resulted in a very well acted and performed play. The play debuted at the Albany Theatre from the 3 - 5 of March, and was very acclaimed by audience members, some saying after that the play that it`captured a character that came from their own life`, and that `appealed to their own questions about the insanity of the day to day`.

The screens for the set design were created in a similar method to my lamp making process. They were important to the play as they embodied the idea of absent authority and static in the scene, used in a way physically that in combination with spot lighting demarked rooms on a set. At points the characters interacted in a central living room space, and at other times had conversation alone and together in their own rooms. Each space overlapped and therefore the set had to be cleverly able to adapt to each charcters feeling and mood for the lines performed. A very key set piece that I had imagined from the beginning was a moveable chandelier which is almost a main character in the play. Its main use is to motivate the plot forward and to challenge all the characters. The chandelier began in the play lowered near the ground and broken, promting the household to have to fix it. Through this broken experience it reveal`s each characters dreams, hopes, anxt, and troubles in how they do or don`t attempt to fix the lamp. At points in the play characters lift the chandelier, play with it, fight with it, and finally at a pivotol climax, raise the lamp up after fixing it, symbolizing freedom and clarity.

An amazing journey and a really beautiful venue. The play has been covered by many blogs and write ups and here are just a few of them. Thank you to all the actors, Sarah Elaine Stewart (the fab director) Lauren (amazing costumes), Tom (fab soundtrack) Susan (for keeping us organized) and to Andrew Harvey ( http://arharvey.com/ ) for amazing photos that we could only begin to dream of :) ! Thank you to Andrew who took time out of his schedule to come be on set for a day with us to capture these moments during our final rehersals.

The publicity :

http://blog.arharvey.com/2010/03/300-friends.html - andrew harvey blog (set and actor shots)

http://www.300friends.co.uk/ - 300 friends blog (photos, write ups)

http://www.whitespacetheatre.com/page6.htm - the whitespace theatre (blog and photos)

http://soundcloud.com/disapia/300-friends-music - links to the music of the play created specifically for the moments and magic of our actors and set (truly amazing)

http://annaiceland.blogspot.com/ - behind the scenes and event photos at play