Opportunity with Ladyfuzz

Earlier this week I was contacted my a girl named Ashleigh who is part of Ladyfuzz, a collaborative collective of creatives who create zines and other wonderful things showcasing alternative talent and life style. Ashleigh got me involved with Illustration Showdown last year so I was really excited when she contacted me asking if I wanted to contribute my work to the upcoming issue of Ladyfuzz. I was given free-reign with the work I created except the fact that it had to be linked to female fronted bands/musicians. This was completely fine for me as I'd recently started listening to a band called Waxahatchee that really fit in with this mini brief, it also gave me a chance to resist an old Kate Nash song that I adore and draw some things up for that. Here are the three illustrations that I sent off and hopefully I'll be able to add a follow up post to this blog post once the new edition of Ladyfuzz is on sale!

DR ME Visit

Last week collage artists and graphic designers, Dr Me came to talk to us in the studio. Although collage isn't really an element of my practice I still found the talk really interesting and useful in terms of some of the things we've been discussing in PPP. 

We've briefly touched upon contacting practitioners/agencies that we're interested in/inspired by and Dr Me had a couple of really good tips on the subject. 

One of the main points they made was to not be afraid to ask. Both of them managed to go work with a designer that they looked up to simply by having the confidence to ask, something which I lack slightly. Through just asking to work with this designer, they got to go to New York and spend a couple of weeks working with him and through this have managed to maintain contact with him, relating back to another point they made about keeping relationships with people as often it can lead to work opportunities and new clients. 

They also mentioned that in terms of finding work/clients, they had a very DIY approach. I can't remember exactly what it was that they did but I remember them saying that when approaching potential  clients, rather than sending emails out they took on a DIY, handmade, collaborative approach rather than the standard boring email. This is something we've also talked about within PPP in terms of how important it is to grab someones attention and how emails aren't necessarily the best way to go about doing this as a lot of the time people will either ignore them and not bother to read what it is that you have to say. 

I should have really made more detailed notes but long story short I think these guys were really interesting and had a lot to say about making yourself stand out and bringing work in. 

Top Tips from Dr Me:

. Collaborate

. Make Good Shit

. Go See Shit 

. Just Ask

. Just Be You