The Prawn Shop x Nasalwarts Collaboration (brief)

The Brief:
internal collaboration consisting of designing a collaborative clothing collection, exhibition branding and the curation of a launch party/exhibition between my self and Tom Clague.

I received an email in mid November from the events coordinator from The Old Red Bus Station; a bar, club and exhibition space in Leeds city centre, the events co-ordinator (Gabby) emailed me in regards to my brand (The Prawn Shop) putting on event/pop-up shop in their exhibition space, this seemed like a great opportunity to not only gain awareness for my brand, but also gain insight in to how to curate an exhibition. Months prior to the email, my self and fellow classmate Tom Clague discussed the idea of collaborating on a limited edition clothing collection on my website under his illustration name Nasalwarts. After receiving the email i immediately thought about utilising this opportunity as a way to launch the collaborative clothing collection my self and Tom had previously discussed, we had a meeting with events coordinator Gabby and detailed our idea to create a launch party/exhibition at The Old Red Bus Station. She responded really well to the idea, having seen Tom's illustrations in a previous group exhibition he took part in.


Before we began to plan the event or even began designing the collection we thought it would be wise to go and visit the space and see what was possible, we visited the venue on the 29th of November.

The exhibition space was on the top floor of the building, with two sets of stairs leading up to a short hallway with a door at each side-leading to two rooms which were both available for us to use.
The first room (on the left) was very open, with exposed brick walls and windows. Gabby informed us that we could hang anything on all but one wall, we also had the freedom to rearrange the rooms however we like.
The second room was much darker than the first, with it normally being used for club nights with coloured lights throughout this room.

Myself and Tom were really happy with the space that was available, we thought that we could do separate things in different rooms and make the exhibition interactive in some way.
After setting the date for the exhibition (6th of February) we decided to start working on the project over Christmas and focus on it when we got back after break