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Draft and Designing Sea Creature jewelry with Clare Pardoe

When working with a client it is important to view the concepts presented with an open mind. There are many times that a designer gets on his or her own track and when it comes to working with people that are not able to draw their concepts well; it is important to do ones best to win them over with a very neutral attitude.


In the case of Clare's earring, this was concept that she created herself, my hands were the instrument that held the pencil that brought the design to the point that she wanted to reach.










When I say neutral I don’t mean passive; I mean with a helpful , kind direction that will make them feel that they had the greatest input even though I or you were doing the art work. Being able to do this comes with years of working with other people that can’t do what you do. Developing a behavior that draws them in to work with you and in the end both sides are full filled. Both the aspiring would be designer and the teacher/ facilitator.

Working with Clare Pardoe was one of these moments and doing the design’s the why she wanted them was achieved using this method. Clare I hope you are still trying to do your designs the way we were doing them while you were here.


Working with Pranda

After 25 years of working for Pranda I mentioned that fact to the CEO/ founder of the company Mr. Prida and he said he wanted to have a dinner for me.

I was so pleased, a month or so passed and Mr Prida suggested tying the dinner party to the last day of the Jewelry Fair and we looked forward to this event.

So it came to pass that an assembly of around 50 persons attended the function of celebrating 3 separate evens in one.

George the head of North American sales was retiring and Mr Bertrandi was going to get married to his girl friend after 30 years living together, and my 25th anniversary celebration.

Since this story is mainly about my experience with Pranda, Mr. Prida addressed my many years of good service by presented me with a 25th year presentation shown below.
" Phenix and the Dragon "

As Mr Prida reminded me I was the Phenix and not the Dragon. He might be right I was always coming up out of the ashes.

Thank you for being so kind over all these years.







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  1. LT Huddon Design Co., Ltd.February 24, 2016 at 11:31 PM

    please fill free to ask questions: Look forward to my new editions in How to Design Coming Soon.

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