Puppets With Guts Graphic Designer

Bradford UK City of Culture 2025

‘SPECTACULAR ZEE AND THE CITY PUPPET’

I’ve loved working with puppets throughout my career. After five years focused on public art and mural installs, puppets took a back seat - until now. I reunited with Puppets With Guts, not as a puppeteer or fabricator, but as Design Consultant and Graphic Designer for their public walk‑out production at Bradford UK City of Culture 2025.

Performance Objects Graphic Design

It was a lovely change from my usual mural paper-cut collage design process to create an illustrative design for a giant inflatable flying telescope! Picking up my pens, I enjoyed designing the object in my lesser‑known illustrative line style.

Photo credit Puppets with Guts

Design Consultant

Drawing on my experience creating bold, colourful, joyful public art, I joined the project as a design consultant. It was a natural fit for me to help shape the visual language for the elements accompanying Puppets with Guts’ walk‑around puppet for Bradford UK City of Culture 2025.

The work included exploring typography, developing costume concepts, and inspiring the community‑engagement aspects of the spectacle.

I’ve been enjoying visual design consulting for various creative organisations and I love collaborating to bring joy and colour to public spaces - especially through performance.

To explore working with Molly for visual design support, get in touch here.