E very job has its hazards. For Hattie Newman, it’s paper cuts. Given that the London-based set and image maker fashions entire villages made of paper, as well as skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building, snowy mountain ranges with skiing crocodiles coursing the slopes, amusement park rides, spinning windmills, animal heads, and even ice-cream bars, some of which appear to be melting, the inadvertent paper cut is a given of her profession.
“Some people call me a paper artist,” says the young designer from her studio in an old East London warehouse. “I sometimes say I’m that, too, but I also say I’m a set designer who works on still-life pieces.”
Companies and organizations as varied as Lacoste, Canon, Visit Sweden, Transport for London, Gap Kids, and IBM commission Newman to…
