The Girl: Emma Kate Codrington

I’m a free spirit with a five-year plan. I am ridiculously passionate about all things design and refuse to live anything but the life of my dreams.

When not with my beloved Mac, you can find me seeking a perfect soy latte, in a bookshop’s travel section, using Instagram or chasing rainbows.

Nothing makes me happier than a pink-skied sunrise, getting/sending prettily packaged mail, flying on a plane bound for new adventure and loving with abandon.

I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. With equal loves for artistic and academic endeavours, I followed my creative heart after secondary school and graduated as dux of Visual Communication (Graphic Design) at the University of South Australia in 2009.

Throughout my studies, I landed my dream first job as a storyteller and designer for inspirational stationery and lifestyle company Intrinsic.

In 2010, I ventured into full-time freelance and self-directed projects. My first solo photographic exhibition Chrysalis: Unravelling Anorexia travelled throughout rural South Australia and was published as a book.

In 2011, I followed my heart to Europe, basing myself in Montpellier, France. There, I lived life à la francaise for seven months, losing myself in flower markets, speaking imperfect French and generally getting down with some mad joie de vivre. I freelanced from the cobbled streets of Stockholm, cafés in Florence and underneath the Eiffel Tower, among other places. I collected some big whimsy jars of life experience and fell head over heels, ridiculously in love with the world.

In 2012, I returned to Adelaide to do work experience with a bunch of publishing houses and get myself experience in art direction and styling. I enlisted the help of a brilliant business coach, and this all culminated in two key projects: launching my first stationery and greeting card line, He{art}full, and exhibiting my second major photography and storytelling collection, Reverie: Stories of Living Life à la Francaise.

Seeking the next big thing, I bought a one-way ticket to London. And so with my mac, camera and a pretty new blog to record every adventure, I have flown head first into the unknown, and landed.

Here goes.