Founded in late 2019 we sat down to work in our first studio on Highland Road on International Women's Day 2020, and have been making friends and influencing people ever since. 

We believe collaboration is key and work with a wide network of artists, designers, tech-heads, production companies, researchers and any other experts a project demands.

We build teams around projects, because there’s no such thing as ‘one size fits all’.

Annabel Innes is FORM+FUNCTION’s Creative Director.

She leads all projects ensuring the highest standards are upheld - from creative conception to delivery - and happily engages her ever-growing ‘little black book’ of local, national and international collaborators to make things happen.

Annabel has a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Camberwell, University of the Arts London and a 1st class MA in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University (in partnership with The Design Museum).

In London for 15+ years, she worked for two highly competitive multi-disciplinary studios Rosie Lee Creative and Harriman Steel whose clients included:

  • Nike

  • Rihanna FENTY x Puma

  • Converse

  • Sonos

  • Patagonia

  • Swatch

  • Uniqlo

  • CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)

  • Activision

She returned to Portsmouth and, after an aborted attempt to emigrate to Costa Rica (Covid), started working.

Her Covid19 Art Ads billboard project on Goldsmith Ave led to the sometimes.shop which (in a roundabout way) led to last year’s Orchard Park basketball court regeneration project which initiated her setting up FORM+FUNCTION CIC In-and-around the above she created Safe to be SPOOKY!! (Covid and stranger safe Halloween Trick o’ Treat trail), curated the street art aspect of 2021’s We Shine festival, continued working for London Chessboxing as their show producer and helped launch Platform Portsmouth – a cross-industry women’s network. She was also on the board of directors for Portsmouth’s No.6 Cinema for four years.

In answer to a commonly asked question: she works everyday but not all day.

Annabel operates on a DIY punk ethos, swears a lot and (after life experiences which have taught her so) knows that time is short and that the best way to kill a project is to drag it out.