Living and breathing by Emma Elizabeth’s self-created ethos “design is nothing without style, and style is nothing without design”, Emma Elizabeth is a highly innovative designer, stylist and creative director. She spent her younger years in the United Kingdom, after moving back to Australia, to attended her formative years within schools in Brisbane. As a 2006 graduate in ‘Scenografia’ from Istituto Europeo di Design in Milano, Italia, a fusion course between interior design, industrial design and set design. This education allowed Emma Elizabeth to return to Australia in 2006, to set up her practise EMMA ELIZABETH DESIGNS. Now with over 17 years of experience under her belt she now runs two business, both her own practise and LOCAL DESIGN.
Emma Elizabeth’s cross disciplinary approach to creative workings allows the all round creative powerhouse to work within the realms of: Art Direction, Design, Creative Direction , Styling, Experiential, Curation, Events, Production, Buying and Creative Conceptualization. In summary she is chaos and creation.
Past commercial clients include:Westfield, Debenhams, Amex, Dom Perignon, Moet and Chandon, David Jones, Lane Crawford, amongst others. She has exhibited her product ranges on many global designer platforms including exhibits in Milan, New York, London, Sydney and so forth. Having been featured in many local and global online & offline media publications including: Vogue UK, Elle Decoration UK, Vogue Living, ELLE DÉCOR, FRAME, YATZER etc… With Emma Elizabeth selected as one of the 50 influential faces of Australian Now, celebrating Vogue Living’s 50thanniversary. Emma Elizabeth was also selected as one of the top ten designers during TENT LONDON by ELLE Decoration UK.
Acclaimed for her collaboration piece, ‘Round Diamond’ with Australian rug company Designer Rugs, she has created over five collections with this brand with a further collection “Materiality” having been launched during this year’s Milan Design Week 2019, within her own curation and creative direction passion project LOCAL DESIGN presents LOCAL MILAN No.4.
Emma Elizabeth was also the founder and creator of the world’s first ‘The Design Vlog’ traveling for two years to many major and minor design weeks, as a design editor & personality, syndicating her footage to online blogs like YATZER and a design news network in Japan, giving her a direct connection and great understanding of the current global design scene. Including not only the designers, but the great publicists, brands and names, who bring this industry together and orchestrate and nurture this precious subject field of culture, that is Emma Elizabeth’s mind is termed DESIGN CULTURE.