The whole experience of working with someone outside our team was satisfying and heart-warming. We do wish to repeat the experience by working with other artists around the world.
I am grateful to the internet for enabling our team to interact with and connect to people on the global stage; it is the thing that makes these collaborations possible. Honestly, without the internet, it would’ve been not only difficult for us to share Ruby’s design to the world, but also near impossible for us to see the designs made by many of our talented collectors. We do surf around the web and Facebook a lot to look at what our collectors have designed using the RRFF dolls, and we do share those designs within our team with a lot of comments like:
“Ooooooh look at this!”
“Wow that’s’ pretty, who made that?”
This eventually leads to:
Let’s reach out and see if we can collaborate and make a new doll together!
As a result, we are working hard to learn more about the secrets of the internet in order to understand how we can better use it to achieve collaboration with the wider community.
Primarily, we are designers and manufacturers, interacting with the physical rather than the abstract. Therefore, this new internet “thing” can be sometimes be mysterious and confusing for us.
Nonetheless, it also provides the platform for us to work together with artists and designers we would otherwise be completely ignorant to.
I am SO looking forward to the next project with the next talent……
Derf
Nov 26, 2021