design your own hand-bags
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e-pill: sure - sorry - I thought you answered them yourself. :-)
(BTW: where can we see your work?)The relationship the "client" was unique, since she's my girlfriend of 6 years. This was different from most client relationships in that I could call her at all hours of the night, drunk, and with ideas. I also could refuse to make certain edits, she makes me tuna-melts, rocks my world, etc. The bags are all her original designs, with occasional input from various design consultants. The site design / concept / flow / language are all collaborative - I'm certain it's better than what either of us would have come up with on our own. I did all the coding, production, and 99% of the photoshop. (em's learning to process and upload her own product shots). We photographed the bags and fabrics in em's basement using a $10 photo-studio composed of a white backdrop, and a mess of clamp-lamps with full-spectrum bulbs diffused through tissue paper.
I gotta say it was way more fun that working for a paying client - the pro-bono nature of the work allows a degree of creative freedom you don't get otherwise. It was really a labor of love, and "feature-creep" was more like foreplay...