Rachel Thomas Summary

Rachel Thomas, a creative art director and designer, creates everything from stage props to prints and everything in between. Thomas began her career as a photographer then branched out into set design where she began working with Big Active in 2004. Her stage art was seen by Joe Ann Furnice, who asked her to create a piece of work based on happiness for an issue in Selfridges magazine. This sparked Thomas's interest in graphic work and from that point she began doing several magazine covers and eventually album covers. In all her work Thomas sketches a set and sends it off to be built. She uses a material called polystyrene which is fairly affordable, making it easy to create large projects. She is inspired the stage productions of 1930s musicals. "It is about fantasy, visibility and taking things out of the everyday." The bright colors is what caught my eye. Everything Thomas creates is by hand. I love the way she works with color and shape to create a somewhat fairy tale image. Everything is so bold yet blends well together. Thomas has mastered variety and unity! I LOVE IT!!!!

~Denora L