Sunday 24 August 2014

Latest Graceful Deviant Designs

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:

http://gracefuldeviant.com/shop/search.php?pageid=2998190&q=thunderbird 

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!