WELCOME TO PAULTONS

Hello everyone!

A long overdue post but better late than never... here's the entire 'Welcome to Paultons' series shot especially for the 'Dream in Colour - The Art of Stylorouge' exhibition at Aubin Gallery.

Thanks to everyone who came to the private view even though I didn't get to speak to everyone very long! The show closes this coming Friday the 3rd of Feb so make sure you get down there to have a look if you can before then; there is plenty of amazing work on offer by my friends at Stylorouge from paintings to video installations. 1,2,3 GO!!

And here they are in all their printed glory at the Aubin gallery :)

All images © 2012 Josephine Ma

DREAM IN COLOUR; THE ART OF STYLOROUGE

HELLO!

The Dream in Colour exhibition is nearly upon us; posters and prints are lined up for press, finishing touches are being given to each piece and the gallery is preparing for our takeover.

More details and final poster to come later but I can say our private view night will be held on the 11th of January 2012 from 6pm at the Aubin Gallery in Shoreditch. It will then be open to the public from the 12th of Jan to the 2nd of Feb.

Try and make it down to see exclusive works from the likes of myself, Rob O'Connor, Aaron Munday, Mark Higgenbottam, Jamie Gibson, Mikkel Lundsager Hansen, Michele Rossi and Viv Dykes.

For now, here is one of my exclusive photographs from my piece 'WELCOME TO PAULTONS' - come down and see them all next year!!! xx

Welcome to Paultons (1 of 3)

Art Direction, Photography, Styling and Set Design: Jojo Ma

Models: (l-r) Jami Luu, Jessica Ly & Vicky Ly

First Assistant: Candy Lai

Hair and Make-up: Gemma Peden

Production Assistant: Fran Lima

Lighting Assistant: Max Burton

Copyright 2011 Josephine Ma

DREAM IN COLOUR

I've been working on something exciting...

Stylorouge will be exhibiting old and new work early next year in London, including some exclusive personal projects by all the designers at the studio. Visit Dream In Colour's website to subscribe and get more information nearer the launch date including previews of the exhibition pieces and items for sale.

Meanwhile, here's a sneak peak at what I've been up to for my own piece..

Sending copious amounts of love to my wonderful team..

My 3 amazing models Jessica Ly, Vicky Ly and Jami Luu; my lovely and hard-working assistant Candy Lai; talented MUA Gemma Peden, the ever-so-organised Fran Lima on production, lighting whizz Max Burton and of course the dream team Jessica Au, Kit Hoang and Luke Parle for all their help and patience on the shoot (as well as a darn good home-cooked lunch!!)

Stay tuned for more info/previews soon!

xx

FAH CHAK - AMORE ARMOR

A very overdue post but still important all the same..

One of my very best friends Fah Chak graduated this year with an MA in Menswear at the RCA, creating (unsurprisingly) a beautifully ornate and covetable collection. Based on a broken love story between a knight and a princess, the Amore Armor collection oozes with romanticism and regality, juxtaposing softness with intricate laser-cut details and finished off with the Midas touch.

All photos from www.fahchak.com

She has since scooped up an ITS#10 award, winning the opportunity to work for Maison Martin Margiela in Paris later this year, and has earned bucket loads of press on the way.

Fah accepting her ITS#10 Maison Martin Margiela award in Italy

We had some fun together doing the shoot for the finalists catalogue a few months back, where we had to add a subliminal heart into the photograph.. see if you can spot the hearts (there's 2)!

Photography by Jojo Ma, Styling by Fah Chak, Model Emmanuelle

She never ceases to amaze me with her mad skills (and ridiculously perfect haircut), and yet she remains one of the best pals a girl could have.

Me and the boyf will be hitting Thailand and HK this September and she's going to be our personal tour guide since Bangkok is where she calls home. Very exciting times!

Here's to an amazing designer and an even better friend! xx

LET THEM EAT CAKE!

There's been an awful lot of cakes recently (both baked and eaten).. here are some of the best:

Mum's beautiful and delicious Birthday Cake

My little sister's beautifully decorated mini chocolate cupcakes

My other sister's recent 21st birthday cake

Mine and my brother's shared 'Mahjong' birthday cake earlier this year

And finally one of my favourites - home-baked red velvet cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting.. mmm!

N.B. All the Chinese style birthday cakes here were bought from Golden Gate cake shop in China Town, London - they are my first bakery of choice when it comes to birthday cakes! Go get your cake on!

xx

WHAT A YEAR!

Wowee it's been over a year since I last posted on here!

I have been busy working away at Stylorouge and completely lost my blogging momentum but going to try and jump back on the band wagon as from now since my website has been updated recently as well!

More interesting things later but for now, here's a funny photo of our little bunny named Lola whom we bought home with us at Christmas. She likes to laze around when she thinks we're not looking.. x

MY WEBSITE IS UP!!

Go take a look at www.hihijojo.com!

Recently I have been realllly busy balancing everything but have mainly been at Stylorouge designing loads and loads of album covers/logos/t-shirts for various companies. I have started to do a lot more hand drawing again and will scan these in as soon as I get a chance!

Bear with me for now and hope you enjoy my portfolio online...

Special thanks to the boyf for programming it all in for me :D

Have a lovely rest of the week!!

Jojo x

MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT

Hello hello,

Today is a more serious post - myself and my family will be taking part in the Macmillan Cancer Support 10k Fun Run this coming June in a bid to raise money for the charity. I have had firsthand experience of what cancer can do to a family as most of my friends know, and this charity in particular supported us throughout the whole ordeal as best as they could.

Please dig deep and help my team reach its target of £750 at:www.justgiving.com/nunchuckninjas

Every little helps and you'll be helping other families get through something which can affect anyone at any time without warning. Thank you so so much and wish me luck on my training!

R.I.P x

SPRING AND SALAMI

Another food related post!! *shame* I have decided to start growing my own herbs as I spend a lot of moola on these tasty leaves and am sooo happy because they've started growing so quick!! It was also a lovely sunny day so my sister and I decided to do some frolicking outside with our yummy Italian lunch!

Mon soeur et moi with a pot of coriander!

Moi looking very floral

Ria with our yummy lunch!

MmMmmmmm the taste of summer

Yay for sun!! In other news, I will be starting an internship at STYLOROUGE next week and think it'll be a great experience as they are an amazing graphic design studio.

Have a great weekend! x

WHOOPIE!!!

I have been spending a lot more time baking and eating these home-baked goods than I should and this still hasn't stopped! Yesterday we had a go at American WHOOPIE PIES, a mix between a cake, a biscuit and a cookie with marshmallow cream in the middle.

Trying to do this in a kitchen about the size of my foot (not very big) was no mean feat, and there are quite a few processes in the recipe. Nonetheless, we came out with these:

Strawberry ripple Whoopies with desiccated coconut

and strawberry marshmallow cream

Not perfect and all shapes and sizes but still yummy

Lemon Whoopies with lemon marshmallow cream and lemon icing

The recipe I followed claimed that these were the new baking 'thing' but my verdict is I still love proper cakes more! They reminded me of scones, crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside, and were heavier than expected.

I promise I will blog more about DESIGN in the future and stop showing you pictures of my futile baking projects...! xx

BARBIE GIRL

I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world, it's fantastic, life in plastic...

Happy Sunday!! xx

CAKES MAKE MY DAY

Today me and little sis made butterfly cakes, some classic jammy ones and some with a chocolatey twist:

We are now enjoying them with some tea and sticky fingers. It's hard work but someone's got to do it... xx

BERLIN BEARS AND BEAUTIFUL WALLS

A short trip to Berlin earlier this year brought me and the boyf freezing cold weather, delicious currywurst and beautiful art!

Below we have some colourful walls courtesy of The Berlin Wall's East Side Gallery, and millions of characteristic bears at a u-bahn station I have totally forgotten the name of...

These walls went on for miles...

So many bears in a wonderful array of colours and patterns...

Would definitely recommend you guys to visit this lovely city although maybe not in March when snow falls down by the bucketload and you get attacked by itchy chilblains.. or as me and Mr.Hoang says, 'attackkkk of the killer tomatoeeeeeessssss.....!' (My toes do go rather red and tomato shaped when I get attacked by chilblains)

It's clearly late, Goodnight! x

UP IN SMOKE

Great colours, great food, great company and great shisha on a Saturday night.

Ben, Fah & Moi at Joury x

I forgot to take photos of the beautiful lamps they had in there so go take a look!

WEBSITE IN THE MAKING

Good Wednesday! I am currently hard at work designing my website which is taking a LOT longer than I thought, but it's going to bring lots of lovely coloured goodness together with some hand-drawn typography. It combines things like this:

I'm hoping to get it done and dusted in a couple of weeks so keeps your eyes peeled! xx

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

So so so, since my last proper post time and time ago (October!!) I have become GLASS MAGAZINE'S online web designer and re-designed the site back in December.

It's an online magazine that covers high end style, architecture, art and millions of other cultural goodness and we update it EVERYDAY so follow us to keep up with the latest things you need to know about! This means I am pretty much on the site every evening uploading new articles and I get to design all the article images, but the most fun I have is with the fashion and beauty section. Below are some of my favourite examples - I hope you enjoy them too!!

'For the Love of Charm' article

'Low Life' article

'Ephemeral Pleasures' article

'Bottega Veneta turns Japanese' article

'The Beauty of Charity' article

Copyright 2010 Josephine Ma.

I AM BACK!

Hello!!

Sorry for the ridiculously late absence - I have been hard at work as the website designer of GLASS MAGAZINE and have been working on a couple of issues of New Look's in-house mag 'MOST WANTED' hence no time to do anything else!

I am now going to play catch-up on all things wonderful in my life so expect a hench delivery of posts these few days!!

Jojo xx

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS - LAST FEW LEFT!

Just a quickie... I only have a few LIMITED EDITION copies of ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS left so please contact me if you're interested in purchasing them! They cost £60 each but are well worth every penny; they'll last a lifetime with its trusty hand-binding and fine paper, and I really went to town with all my photography, content and text. Scroll down to my older posts for more images and info.

Email me at jzijey.ma@gmail.com or alternatively drop me a comment here.

Mr Ruxley says 'please buy Jojo's magazine, pwetty please.' He is my best friend's dwarf lionhead bunny that I will kidnap when she's least expecting it :)

Til' next time, lots of Chinese love xx

GLASS MAGAZINE

HELLO!

Sorry (again, argh I'm useless) about my extreme lack of posts. It has been pretty hectic since I finished my degree and I have been very distracted by a general desire to laze around and watch Professional Masterchef non-stop.. ahem.. SO some very exciting news. I have jumped aboard a new online/print project called GLASS MAGAZINE as one of fashion director Marie-Louise Von Haselberg's many assistants, which has been awfully exciting.

GLASS is a real gem of a fashion, art, music and design outlet, and celebrates truly inspirational creativity with dexterity. The online version has a lot of negative space and clean lines in its aesthetic, which is always a winner in my books ;) Please take a look at the site as the creators are all working really hard to bring you amazing new stuff, photographed and written about beautifully. I am only but a small part of this at the moment as I have only just joined recently, but really looking forward to get stuck in more often.

This Wednesday I assisted Marie in a live shoot for both the online and printed version, which involved a lot of writhing around in Lace and lots of tea and biscuits. Here are a couple of snaps..

Dressing up

Brrrrr

Magda love - Marie's first assistant

BEAUTIFUL studio (this photo does it no justice)

Setting up the set.. ahhh

Lace lace lace! Pretty...

Watch this space... xx

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS - ISSUE ONE!

Apologies for the inexcusable delay and absence of any posts at all - I was FINALLY finished with my degree a couple of weeks back and have been swept off my feet! The hard work was worth it though... I was awarded a First Class Honours for such efforts! (queue chuffed grin) YAY!

AND THEY'RE HERE!

THANKS to everyone who helped/contributed/supported me throughout the whole process - as a special treat, below is a video exclusive of the magazine. Now don't say I don't spoil you!

ENJOY ENJOY! Orders still welcome, just let me know :) xx