A Tale of Two Photoshoots

It seems like a while ago - but it was only two weeks when we had a busy couple of days photographing all the latest designs. Our photoshoots always end up being crammed together in half term when our lovely models are free from school and college.

The first shoot was expertly taken by Chrissy Mathew - modelled by Jac Bevon and Heather May Hughes. The idea of this shoot was to show how our designs are truly unisex - emphasised by both models wearing the same design. It works really well - and shows how you can get a completely different look by choosing bigger or smaller sizes.

These are my favourite shots from the afternoon:

The following day, I got the chance to brush up on my photography skills - we were blessed with another gorgeous day and the lovely Anna Davies modelled some of our latest hand-made and hand-printed womenswear designs. We've got some beautiful vintage inspired printed floral shorts and dresses - perfect for those long hot summer days:

But if you want to indulge your wilder side we have some grungey printed satin slip dresses - perfect for letting your hair down...

Or how about some sexy printed shorts with our oversize foreverland vest - perfect for a night out!

Bored with graphic design

I've spent the last 10 or so years of my life involved in graphic design in one way or another, more recently it's been purely on Me&Yu things (which in itself is alot of stuff) and before that on more commercial work for other clients. The other day as I was working on some new posters for the shop I started to think that actually I'm a bit bored with just doing straightforward design work - ie working on my mac putting text with images - so I'm working on a new flyer using a more hands on approach. I've begun by scratching into the surface of a photograph and my next step will be to collage some fashion shots on top of this and then probably draw or paint on top of that - here's a pic of the first step, I'll post more as I continue.

Our Sunday

A few days late, but this is pretty much what our Sundays are about - nice Sunday lunch and spending some quality time with the cats!!!!

We Were 5!!

Well I don't think anyone can have escaped our We Are 5 promotion - we were social networking pixies across blogger, facebook and twitter and we've had lots of fun.

Thanks to everyone who got on board and joined in the fun!

Here we have winners from our Five Days of Freebies

Day One
Laura Sherlock won a t-shirt on Twitter

Day Two
Russell Hind won a t-shirt on Facebook

Day Three
Number 183 did not come forward so we're now looking for the holder of ticket number 194

Day Four
Our Blogger competition was won by George Gabriel

Day Five
The photo comp was won by Mark Fairley

There were some fabulous entries - here's the rest!!

We Are Five - Day Five - Last Day- Photo Competition

Visit our facebook page here and see some of the entries

FutureEverything 2011

The FutureEverything festival starts in manchester in a few days time (11th-14th), there are so many amazing things happening as part of this event I recommend looking at their site to see whats on. A few highlights will be GangGang Dance (11th), Beach House(12th), Das Racist(13th),  Warpaint (14th),  thats a band a night!!!!
There are also some interesting looking exhibitions and art events - Handmade@Victoria Baths (14th),
On Ways to Disappear without leaving a trace.

The Winning Ticket

Thanks to everyone that have joined in with our competitions...

Day One
Five Days of Freebies started on Twitter - we got heaps of new followers and lots of love.
Laura Sherlock was drawn at random and chose a "Be Your Own God" T-shirt

Day Two
Moved over to our Facebook Fanpage and we got more response in 24 hours than in any previous competition we've held!
Congratulations to Russell Hind who will be receiving his Loony Tunes t-shirt in the post next week.

Day Three
The Lucky Ticket drawn in our Afflecks raffle is Number 183 - check your numbers and email us at info@meandyu.com if this is your ticket. This will be re-drawn on Monday evening if no winners come forward with that number.

Day Four
The main competition moves over to Blogger - there's still time to enter here by following and posting about us - we'll announce the winner on Monday.

As the Twitter response has been phenomenal we've just given away a goodie bag & will give out more every time we get to the next 100 followers!

Day Five
You've got till Midnight on Monday to enter The Photo Comp - just email a pic of you wearing Me&Yu to angie@meandyu.com or tag on facebook to enter.

We Are Five - Day Four - Blog Competition

We Are Five - Day Three - Prize Draw in Afflecks

Before and After

We found these amusing images on The Opening Hours an Australian street culture/art blog, showing a wall in Sydney that had featured some work by Australian graffiti artistst, but had then been painted over.

We Are Five - Day Two - Facebook

Visit our facebook page here

We Are Five - Day One - Twitter