– Please briefly describe a typical day or a typical week.

– Wherever we are we always start our day with a good and long breakfast. We eat, we relax, we wake up, we make plans and share ideas.

– We have a studio in Shoreditch. We decided very early on in our practice to have a studio. Then we had at least one bill to pay and we had to get money in monthly to pay the studio, the phones and the Internet as well as some earnings to ourselves. It is great to have a space to work from, to meet clients and to do special events. Most days we do cycle together on our foldable Brompton Bicycles from Highbury, through the lush backstreets of Canonbury and down to Hoxton and Shoreditch. If it rains heavily, we’re lucky to be able to work from home.

– Do you have a divide between work and private life?

– This is our lifestyle. Creative conversations happen everywhere and anytime, either together or people we interact with. Many of our friends are running their own businesses, large and small, in many different industries and we all learn from each other during creative conversations.

– Have you set up any premises or “rules” to make it work?

– We do our best to schedule morning meetings to list what has to be sorted today, this week and this month and the coming year. We have our own studio space that we work from. We have a flat structure and share responsibilities on rotation to make sure our days always have challenge and that we always keep learning.

– How do you think it affects the work you produce?

– Teamwork is motivating.

– In what way do you complement each other?

– We have very different backgrounds, Gilles grew up in the suburbs of Paris and Cecilie in the Norwegian countryside. Our references are different when it comes to youth culture, literature, music, sports, upbringing, art and design. Gilles is analytical, realistic and have a lot of knowledge about everything. Cecilie has too many ideas (don’t worry, we save them all in our idea book), is the visionary and day-dreamer. Together this mix of personal attributes become our studio: always looking for new challenges and adventures.

– What are the challenges of being partners in both business and in love?

– The challenge is to not fall into a routine. We try to always be moving away from a routine. So that our work can develop. Experience is great and we want to be able to create work with fresh approach. And use different methods to solve the challenges we meet.