Teller of Tall Tales

Crystal Campbell

“Poetic design offers a less clichéd form of communication; -where the meaning of a product or service is more open ended; -the consumer being regarded as an existential curator, co-producer or invited participant. Within the crafting there is a sense in which it begins to embody the multiple personalities of it’s maker, it’s consumer and it’s surroundings.”

Crystal Campbell likes lots of things especially boiled egg and Marmite soliders, boys on Vespas, the colour purple, and yellow, sometimes together; drawing useless objects with sharp pencils, bunny rabbits, sock monkeys and sea monkeys, actually any monkeys; blue skies, grey skies, rain that comes after a hot day and brown paper packages tied up with string.

After spending her childhood blissfully running around barefoot in Zimbabwe, she is now a Summa Cum Laude Masters degree graduate of Creative Practice for Narrative Environments (MACPfNE) from Central Saint Martins in London, with shiny new shoes and both feet firmly on European soil.

A professional freelancer with creative experience since 2003, she now lives in Lisbon because it has more trees, marzipan fruits, coffee thats too thats too strong, tiles she matches to; and you can almost always hear the birds singing in the mornings, and she likes that. Alot.

Crystal is co-founder of what was the Rosebud&Grumpers Network (2006-2008), Birdwatching for Girls (2007), Bokkie Shoes (2008 – and still going strong!) and, most recently, The Earth is Not Flat (2009) which is hosting Narrative Ecology, a framework developed by Crystal Campbell for designing interactions using narrative.

She is most definitely shyer than you, so if you want to say hi, go on!