#fierce chic

Another assignment, another daunting task. The prospect of this sounded really fun, but the idea of reaching out to someone I looked up to and asking them questions was yet another scary aspect. I had so many people I was thinking of that I couldn’t nail it down to five, let alone one, creative. Seeing as the limitations were very vague, it could have been anyone. But I managed to create a list of five individuals;

Michele Feghali; a graphic designer at Rooster Teeth who I really wanted to interview because of this project,

Josiah Brooks; a youtuber,

Baylee Jae; a youtuber,

A friend who’s a make up artist

A friend who’s a cake decorator.

I contacted the top three people through the contact section of their website, but none of them replied. I was a little upset by that because I really wanted to try printing the interview on a shirt for Creative No. 1.

I then reached out to litographs because I was still in love with printing something on a t-shirt. They did reply, but it was a negative response (they don’t have a team of designers who do their designs; they work with freelancers).

So I messaged Cognitive Surplus on tumblr. Didn’t get a response until I was already working on my project, which by then was too late.

The make up artist friend isn’t really someone I talk to all that much, so I felt weird about chatting her up after a few months of silence just to ask for help.

The cake decorator friend had too much going on all at once and I didn’t want to add to that, so I let her be.

I reached out to an internet friend for help, who told me she knew someone who was professional creative.

After asking questions, I found out her name was Maria La Duckworth, and she designs and makes jewellery, which I think it is pretty dang cool.

I asked her the questions, she answered, and then I asked for pictures of the jewellery she makes.

Because her profession is jewellery themed, I decided to stick with that, and go for a jewellery box where I put cards in the box that have pictures of her work on it.

I made a little prototype at home so I could see what it looked like, in terms of dimensions.

After seeing it all put together, I decided I didn’t want the box to be that deep. And I wanted the compartments to hold life sized jewellery in there. So I took my own necklace, found a box that perfectly fit it, and measured that for the necklace compartments. Did the same for the bracelet compartments, and I had a really big box (27 by 28, roughly).

Pretty big, but I did it anyway. It’s only on imgur because it wasn’t uploading to tumblr for some reason.