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Did you spot one of the new designs in Vogue U.K magazine?!

So, last month was very busy (hence the lack of blog posts, apologies!) as I was working on new designs when I was contacted by an agency working on behalf of Vogue magazine.
They thought my jewellery would be perfect for a feature they had due in the August edition entitled 'Get Your Rocks On' and I thought it would be a great opportunity to reveal a new design.
And here it is!

The Graceful Deviant piece as seen in Vogue U.K magazine (Aug 2014 edition)

 Some of the other designs I had been working on included this summer daisy design:

This summer daisy design worked perfectly in my dainty studs

Along with this star mandala style doodle. Although once this had been digitally scanned and shrunk, it lost a lot of definition so now only the very middle part has been used in my charms and studs.

The original star mandala was just a bit too big so only the middle section got used!

 

One of my favourite designs was the legendary North American thunderbird which works so well with the summery turquoise:

 

However, the feature in Vogue did throw up a rather important question and one which I had been ignoring for the past few weeks. It was the concern over using bought in components and the copyright issues that may surround them.

Now I have been very careful recently when designing new items to ask myself the following questions:

• Can you source these materials on a larger scale quickly and efficiently should you suddenly have an influx in orders?
• Is the design predominately handmade or hand-assembled? Which of these makes more business sense? Does it even matter? If so, how can you make it more unique?
• With any purchased materials is there any copyright issue?

This has led me on a slight detour to my original Graceful Deviant mission but one that I feel now is actually better for it. More of this discussion in my next blog post and new product reveal :)

I'm also off to IJL next week so there will also be a blog post about the goodies I uncover and the talented designers too!