"Emily has a midas touch --
She can transform a refrigerator box into a marble castle with a line down the block. An aesthete of the highest order, she employs not only her charmed seven-dimensional perception of human environments and talismans, but her carefully gathered orbit of collaborators as well, to create spaces, places and objects beyond compare. I pity the fool who doesn't get to work with her."
-- Valentine Freeman, Executive Creative, Creative Artists Agency; Key Social Marketing Magician, Atelier Ace/ @acehotel
Emily Baker is a hands-on creative director who designs, makes, and styles. A plant whisperer and a psychic rock witch. Hands dirty and gently harnessing controlled chaos. A Passionate and experienced art director with a proven track record of successfully leading art direction for projects, and achieving high levels of client satisfaction. Adept in overseeing all visual aspects of a project and offering design solutions when needed. Bringing forth strong leadership skills, and the creativity necessary to effectively oversee creative development and design processes.
She shape shifts within the art department as production designer, art director, photographer, set decorator, prop stylist, set dresser and shopper for advertising, editorial, fashion and commercials in print, film, and new media.
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
-Audre Lorde
With over 10 years of experience as a crew member in commercial production, Emily is the owner and creative director of Flowers In Space, a queer, feminist-owned full service art department serving the film and photo production world, providing skilled photography, intriguing sets & lush interiors for powerful projects.
Flowers In Space offers a diverse group of artists with over 15 years experience who are here to make beautiful work for our clients- mindfully, with a sense of joy, fun & always rooted in compassion. Flowers In Space values positive change in the film industry, seeking to directly address the gaps by creating authentic and sustainable work. By centering marginalized creatives, our values are rooted in building reimagined relationships with our clients as film industry professionals & QTPOC, BIPOC, & queer artists, in an effort to disrupt the roadblocks of our white supremacist society. We show up to work and shine a light on useless, tired power dynamics within ourselves and our collaborators, reframing “work”, and delivering the freshest, most unique perspectives while we’re at it.
In the recent past, Emily was a jewelry designer under the moniker Sword+Fern, and has designed and handmade collections for Free People, Anthropologie, Levi’s and Alternative Apparel. Her interior design and styling work is featured in Justina Blakeney’s The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes, and The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living. With past career paths influenced by nature as an environmental horticulturist, medicinal herbalist, & residential landscape designer, Emily shares her deep, reverent love of the earth and her plants, and the vastness of our environment in the details she designs and spaces she creates. She brings a spark of joy inspired by the healing energy of the natural world to each project she works on. Emily is an advanced practitioner of Yoga and a student of Ayurveda, finishing her practitioner’s certification through California College of Ayurveda. Explore more on Emily’s journey as a healer here.
Her love of creating started wild, growing up near the Puget Sound in the majestic Pacific Northwest. Past professional highlights include roadside paleontologist, driftwood fort builder, huckleberry harvester, trainhopping, pinhole camera making, medicinal plant hunting, full moon ceremonies, and emceeing a weekly punk poetry slam night. She schlepped her silver oyster shell 1964 Ludwig drum kit all over the west coast playing in bands of many genres--from feminist folk to shoegaze to metal to new age pop. After owning 3 of her own small businesses, she knew her favorite hours were spent meticulously figuring out how to make things look oddly natural-the bunch of dogwood branches deep in the background, the crystallization in the carrara marble up front and center, or the copper-ringed ballpoint pen from 1944 for the villain's office desk. In 2014, she figured it was time to leap into a more collaborative path, believing that the best work comes from being in "the togetherness".
Select Clients: ACE Hotel, Alternative Apparel, Amazon, American Airlines, Anthropologie, ATT, Beautycounter, Bed Bath and Beyond, Blue Bottle Coffee, California Avocado Commission, California Pizza Kitchen, Chambord, Chapstick, Cover Girl, Dacor, Daily Harvest, Design Within Reach, Dole Latino, E! Entertainment, Elizabeth Arden, FADER magazine, Facebook, Four Sigmatic, Free People, Frye Boots, Genius, Google, GoldenVoice, H&M, Happy Dance, Hard Rock Cafe, Herman Miller, Hollywood Reporter, Josie Maran, Joybird Furniture, Kinfolk magazine, Kinlo by Naomi Osaka, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Levi's, Liquid IV, L'Oreal, LG Electronics, Lonny magazine, Louis Vuitton, Men’s Wearhouse, Meta, Nissan, NBCUniversal, Otterbox, PAIGE denim, Parks Project, PopSugar, Samsung, Smashbox, Smirnoff, Sonos, Skittles, Syng, The Home Depot, Tidal magazine, TJ Maxx, Udi's Gluten Free, Viacom, Verizon, Warner Brothers Stage13, Weiden+Kennedy, WildFang. As seen on Grimm, Leverage, YACHT’s 'Psychic City'
Photographers, Directors + Stylists: Todd Selby, Wolfie Zac and Claudia Delpin, Dabito, Justina Blakeney, Frank Frances, Kat Borchart, Pia Ulin, Andre Perry, Piers Hanmer, We Are The Rhoads, Lindsey Byrnes, Nicki Sebastian, Andrew Trosmans, Collin Hughes, Justin Chung, Leslie Lessin, Paola Kudacki, Jeff Luker, Anja Charbonneau, Zoe Lister-Jones, Rachael Holder, Jardine Hammond, Julia Stotz.
Published: The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2015, The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living, Artisan, 2015
Listed: "The Ultimate list of Sustainable Jewelry Designers, 2012"
Based in Los Angeles. Contact Emily here to get in touch with Flowers In Space for your next project.