Creative Convos

Rose Nordin

• editorial based
• charity work, learned about Art Fund
• also a freelancer
• industry level career allows her to have access to feedback on her design work which allows her to grow more as a designer

Leeds RAG Fashion Show 2018

• Being a part of RAG was something that pushed me out of my comfort zone 
• I have modelled for friends and uni peers, but never infront of hundreds of people!!!!
• Although it was a scary experience I am glad I took part in such an amazing and talented show
• Being in a creative environment surrounded by creative people was in a way a networking event
• It was to an extend time consuming due to long rehearsals and photoshoots, however it made me realise better at time management as it was a dedicating project

Live Briefs

From RAG I got meet a girl called Dominik who happened to be looking for a graphic designer for her band's logo. So through RAG I got to make connections and produce broaden my client list.

Album art and logo for the band I created.

Updating Projects - Salford - Development

Nathanael Turner Interview

Nathanael Turner is one of my favourite industry photographers. He has photographers some of my favourite music artists and I admire his personal work. I interviewed Nathanael because I wanted to know what it is like to balance commercial work v.s personal work and how important it is to have both.

http://nathanaelturner.com/

examples of his work

His more personal work is very relatable to the aesthetic's of some of my own photography. Although I love photography, I am not that very well educated on it and it would be interesting to see if he has any advance for me as well as learn from some of his experiences.

He also photographs for magazine covers, often photography some of my favourite music artists e.g. Brooke Candy (above) and Grimes. Fashion photography is a big interest of mine so getting two perspectives on different types of photography will be educational too.

Some of his clients: Bloomberg Businessweek, Broadly/Vice, California Sunday Magazine, The Fader, Gagosian, Ifeoma, L'Official, Lucky Peach, M Le Monde, Matador Records, Medium, Microsoft, Neon, Newsweek, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Refinery29, Stern Magazine, True Panther, W Magazine, Wax Magazine, Wire Magazine, Vans, Zeit Magazine

Diva Mag Interview

As part of project research I interviewed Carrie, who is editor-in-chief of Diva Magazine. Which is a bisexual and lesbian based magazine that aims to smush gender stereotypes and push positivity into the world. They have a readership of over 1 million in Europe.

I asked Carrie questions about queer representation in the magazine industry today and her were her thoughts.

Diva is successful and shows representation for the queer community, however do you feel queerness is still underrepresented in the mainstream magazine industry?

Yes, massively. Mainstream magazines are definitely getting better at representing queer communities and telling our stories, but they aren't doing nearly enough, and certainly not for those who are marginalised within the LGBTQ umbrella – people of colour, people with disabilities, trans people, intersex people and so on. Queer people with multiple intersecting identities are still ignored, overlooked, and erased. That's why I think it's so important to have a magazine like DIVA – by queer women, for queer women – which manages to encompass celebrity, culture and many other subjects found in mainstream magazines while still being a safe space. For us, that means no body shaming messages – we'll never run a piece about dieting for example – it means being explicitly trans-inclusive, it means telling all of our stories - not just white, cisgendered, able-bodied ones. I think our readers really value this, and in fact we get lots of letters and emails from straight women who say they love the magazine because of the way we position ourselves apart from other women's magazines. 

Showing representation for queer people is something that is really important and necessary! What do you think about certain creative companies taking advantage of queer culture as a 'trend' and using it as a tool to make themselves more appealing? 

Obviously appropriating queer culture in a bid to make a quick buck is disappointing and depressing – especially since these companies will be the first to distance themselves from the community when we're no longer in fashion. But it's important to be pragmatic too and the reality is that we need visibility and this, sadly, is one way of achieving that. It's important though that we see these companies for what they are and support companies which are genuine in their support for the queer community. 

• Interviewing Carrie has made me more passionate about representing the queer community within my own personal work and reassured me it is necessary to do so with the information she has provided with her insight into the magazine industry