[Jewelry making - Article 00062] - Re: [Orchid] Designer Spying

[Brett Gober]

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Pamela,

    The best advise I've ever heard about knock-offs was an over-heard
    conversation between two designers at an early SFS: "How do you
    handle knock-offs?" " I don't. I enjoy the compliment, I enjoy that
    others know who's being knocked-off, and I'm too busy making next
    year's line,that will be knocked-off in two years, to worry about 
it." 

    I don't see that your pieces are very knock-offable. The pieces on
    your site are more defined by the "style of the work" than the
    design. By that I mean certain elements common to your work aRe:
    solder visible and a different color that the piece, ragged bezels,
    porous metal, nicks and gouges in the metal, non-polish, chipped
    stones, asymmetry in earrings.... These and other elements add up to
    your own unique "style of work" that can't really be duplicated. Many
    of the designs are primitive and elemental - ie: bezel set stone on a
    round wire shank. It's your "style of work" that makes it unique to
    you. 

    Nice touch writing her the letter! 

Brett
Hannibal, Mo
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