Beautiful Empire does a tiny bit of Austria....

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in Lyon, France

In Lyon, traditionally the textile manufacturing hub of France...

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in Launceston, Tasmania

This shop window is an amalgamation of Beautiful Empire and Tara Badcock Paris + Tasmania, hosted by Two Four Two in Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania (Australia).
Many, many thanks to Katie and Alan Livermore for their support with this and for showcasing our work so wonderfully!

Two Four Two is a great boutique accommodation, wine and design business which supports local and interstate Australian designers and artists. Alan is a furniture designer and Katie has an eye for quality print works, jewellery and textiles.
You can visit their website at: www.twofourtwo.com.au
Email: stay@twofourtwo.com.au

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in the USA

Many thanks to Sus Mira in the US for sticking these posters up for us, and she said:

" the two on the car were in Moncure, North Carolina
the studio one was at the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro,
North Carolina

I meant to tell you before what waves that skirt with the white cross
made...the girls in Greensboro went wild!"

www.susannahmira.com
www.elsewhereelsewhere.org/artists.html

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in Collioure, Southern France

Collioure...fabled artists' holiday hang-out (Picasso, Matisse....), near the Spanish/Catalan border of Southern France...a Beautiful Empire itself!

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in Toulouse, Southern France

This was such a splendid opportunity to be part of some pomp and circumstance!! You can just see the poster on the barrier thing next to the door of the Toulouse Town Hall (Hotel de Ville).

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in Le Bugue, Southern France

The poster is under the road signs...and the other is on the Fromagier's stand at the local market...he was most obliging and the cheese is heavenly!

Fruit Markets Sydney

A dear friend Jo Roppolo took this photo at the Fruit Markets in Sydney.
Thank you Jo, we love you beyond measure.

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in Figeac, Southern France

I gave the town of Figeac a gentle workout with the posters last week...

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in the South of France...

In and around the delightfully summery environs of Lauzes, in Southern France...

BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE in Paris

On the metro...
More to come from many parts of France and Europe...

Sri Lanka with love

Dear Emma Mathieson from Tasmania has been living in Sri Lanka for the past few years. Emma has taken some great photos for us with our work and her friends in town. Emma makes the gorgeous Warm Fuzzies range that can be found in stores all over.

Posters and Clothing at Milly Sleeping in Melbourne

This glorious display is courtesy of Leah at Milly Sleeping, which is a beautiful fashion store in Melbourne, at 157 Elgin Street, Carlton.

(The pink bird camisole top in the images is actually a different one from the one which features in one of the posters, and has a hand embroidered imaginary bird with Macaw (blue parrot) feathers for a tail...I'm so in love with making these camisole tops, I can't wait for the next batch of feathers from my neighbour who breeds them!)

More posters up in the world:

These posters are up in Perth, Western Australia...thanks for that, Jo! 

Posters making their appearance at...

This poster bears the scrawled message, "More Birkenstocks than brains"...we think it probably bears more resemblance to the person who wrote it!

A comment like this is very much a site-specific statement...Hobart, the land of Birkenstock shoes and a small creative-social gene pool.....

 I'm very flattered that anyone feels compelled to graffitti our posters, at least we're getting noticed!! 

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And then....In the sanctuary of the Waverly Woollen Mills outlet shop, one of my favourite haunts, our posters sit next to rolls of Tasmanian wool fabircs and blankets used in the construction of some of our garments...its a lovely touch and I'm so honoured to be able to use home-grown products! Waverly Woollen Mills is only now one of two woollen mills still in operation in Australia, and my father always sold his wool to local buyers, so I like to think I'm carrying on some connection with the local wool industry and promoting quality Tasmanian produce....which is being threatened by plantation crops of trees which will eventually feed the proposed pulp mill north of Launceston (see older posts below for protest images). 

We will include more content and information on this blog site about the environmental issues on this island which inform our creative inspiration and intended outcomes, to promote Tasmania as a culturally productive and open-minded environment and social site of interaction...rather than the introspective and conservative place our collective and isolated heritage seems to promote.

Time passes....and nature will always triumph.......

www.waverlyaustralia.com.au

Beautiful Empire posters on display around the world...

We're getting our message out to the world...

This poster is in an elevator in Zurich, Switzerland (thank you Simone!)

This poster is on display in Perfecto Interiors in Launceston, Tasmania...

Pulp Mill Action

An estimated 15,000 people marched through the streets of Hobart recently in a clear message to the government and major financial institutions that community opposition to the pulp mill project is building despite the inadequate and fast-tracked government approvals.

The Wild I Tell You Was Beautiful

www.wilderness.org.au/regions/tas

Go to the above link for more information about Tasmania's threatened wilderness

Posters on display in New Norfolk, Tasmania

Monique took some photos last week in Tasmania...

Our posters are on their journey...

Laura in Chicago has displayed some posters for us at the De Paul University, where she is Professor of Business Ethics.
Thanks Laura!

Welcome to Design Island 2008 'Crossing Hemispheres'

For Design Island 2008 Tara Badcock & Monique Germon have undertaken a collaborative project titled 'Beautiful Empire'. This project consists of the creation of a series of photographic works which showcase our design work in Tasmania. We have chosen to explore the ability clothing has to communicate ideas and opinions within a natural landscape or constructed environment.

We are exhibiting these images within a context which will allow the viewer to see images of our work within the Tasmanian landscape, which, as a potent and inspiring environment, informs both of our design aesthetics.

We also have incorporated a national & international audience for our project and will exhibit the images in cities such as Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich, Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, London, New York & Dubai, where we have made contacts from previous travels and previous design projects.

Tasmania's exotic reputation, both nationally and internationally is a potent source of marketing potential and through innovative styling of our images we aim to draw as much attention to our natural environment as possible. 'Beautiful Empire' collaboratively weaves together our individually developed aesthetics to create a bridge between one another, across the island from north to south and to further then out into the world, whereby promoting Tasmanian design on a mass scale, literally 'crossing hemispheres' to continue to uphold Tasmania's growing reputation as an island of innovative & inspired design.

For further information and where to find our designs, please contact us through the links on the left hand side.