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Creative Design and Fashion Duo Rodo Creative

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Rodo Creative is the work of creative duo Becky Doherty and Sarah Royle. Both graduates of Manchester Metropolitan University in Design and Art Direction, they established their own design business following the completion of their course in 2011!
“The name is simple, it’s a mix of our last names – Sarah ROyle and Becky DOherty – RODO. We have created our own exciting new venture and are loving designing t-shirts in our spare time. We also have a number of Design Brief’s on going at the moment which are keeping us busy!

We all want to leave uni and get a design job straight away, but me and Becky knew that this may not be the case. So, we kept our part time jobs at Topshop and created our own design work on the side. Whilst working in Topshop, we were asked to design some t-shirts for Topman. We designed 40 t-shirts and produced a catalogue to present them to Topman head office; after receiving amazing feedback we were disappointed to find that none of our designs had been chosen to go to print. Nethertheless, it gave us the boost we needed to start Rodo Creative on our own. Unfortunately, 2 months down the line we noticed that t-shirts very similar to ours were being sold – we know this happens to many designers including Kate Morross and tried to take it as a compliment.

In October this year we Launched our first t-shirt ‘Concrete Jungle’ which is available to buy now on ASOS Market Place! We got our inspiration for this t-shirt on a trip to New York with uni. Like any design student, we took 100s of photographs, many of which appear on this photo montage! It is great to see our product online and although we came across a few problems during the set up of producing our tees is was all worth it in the end! We now just need to get Rodo out there and sell more and design more!
Our second t-shirt came out this weekend ‘Cross Tee’ It was the favourite tee on the Facebook votes so we are expecting big things! We have already sold 8 of the 50! Whilst in Berlin we visited the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp – this is were we took the photograph of the crossed wall (see above). We love this t-shirt which is why we forked out for a 4 colour print! We had so much interest at the craft fair we did at the Reebok stadium last weekend!

Thinking about the future… We want to keep the t-shirts as our canvas but we will see what the future brings for Rodo! We would love to give to charity and maybe set up a plan so that when someone buys one of our tees – a t-shirt would also go to a child in Africa – We love to travel and get lots of inspiration from it and do all that we can to help! This would be a dream along with owing our own Tee Shop! But we’ll save the dreams for later, first things first, lets get Rodo on the map!”
Follow Rodo Creative on their Blog, Facebook, @rodocreative on Twitter and ASOS.

Business Boom Feature!

Today Business Boom wrote a post about us as Rodo Creative! Where we started and how we have developed in the last two years! Read the full story here:

 Read the story HERE!

Our First BOUTIQUE Sale!

Identity Stamford have purchased a size range of our t-shirts!

Proud to be in a boutique!

Lets hope they sell well.... :)

http://www.identitystamford.co.uk/#!about

Concrete Jungle Photo Shoot

Because our Concrete Jungle t-shirt has a sharp/clean design we thought it would be best to photograph it in a contrasting setting. After a couple of hours planning we came up with the idea of keeping it simple and using walls around the house. I have just moved into a house which at the moment is being decorated, we took advantage of the stripped decor and the bare brick cellar.

We are lucky enough to have a friend as a photographer who we can now work with regularly. We have recently designed some logos for Pete and we are also going to be designing flyers for him in the future. This way we don't need to worry about money, we can just re pay by doing design work for him. We learnt a lot from our photographer Pete Oakley and will look forward to our next shoot!

Photos By Pete Oakley Photography:

Take a look at his website - http://www.peteoakley.co.uk/

Preparing for Sales! Paper Tags

PAPER TAGS:


We have had a busy couple of weeks preparing for putting our limited edition t-shirts on sale! We have been sewing in labels, having photo shoots and also getting the Rodo Creative Brand in the public eye! We underestimated the time this would all take but we now feel ready to get these t-shirts sold.


Take a look at our paper labels - Now ready to be pinned into the Tees!

Fresh off the Press

Crown and Country Vintage Fair

Our First Craft Fair!

After a very late night of preparing for the fair we were both feeling and looking like zombies... 

but we were ready for the day ahead!

Overall we had a successful time! Maybe not as successful as we had hoped on the money front but engaging with people in similar situations to ourselves really was inspiring! We met some brilliant people who we hope to keep in touch with and learn from in the future.

Hearing and seeing customer reactions to our cards was also good! We had raised eyebrows, laughs at Ralph the Reindeer and conversations about Graphic Design! 

Thanks Crown and Country for letting us be involved!

Business Cards

Busy Morning Designing Business Cards....

To get ready for the fair we have decided to make some business cards which we can give out on the day! Brown bags are on order which we can personalise with our logo. When a card is purchased customers will get a bag and a business card. Again a way of getting our names out there!

Last time we made business cards was for our degree show in July this year, we printed them ourselves and cut them by hand, however we found it more trouble than it was worth! Especially when we had the added stresses of finishing our pieces for the show! So this time we have decided to lead by example... We have sent our designs to Vista Print!

Hand Made Rodo Christmas Cards!

Sorry not posted in a while! We have been busy designing and making Christmas cards!  They've taken lots of time and effort but we are so pleased with what we have created and so are our customers!

We have produced nine different designs, one set of cards has a more traditional feel for those people who like to stay within the boundaries of Christmas! Our other pack has a humorous take on Christmas with illustrated characters including Ralph the Reindeer and Trevor the Turkey!

We hope you like what we have made :) Merry Christmas!

Rodo OUT

Finished Catalogues!!

 After a long few weeks of designing and decision making our Tshirts are finished!! And we're so pleased with the result!!

We decided the best way to show off our designs would be to use a catalogue format. Our catalogue features all forty designs as well as our inspirations and original photography- contact information can be found on the back page.

We felt that the way we bound our book was important for the presentation of our ideas. Originally we were going to staple our book together our use a ring binder, but thinking more into it we believed that sewing would be more appropriate, bringing tools used in fashion and producing a more exclusive and handmade look! We used the pamphlet stitch with black cotton - a simple but nice touch.

It would have been easier to go to the printer.... But we wanted to do it ourselves and feel the full sense of achievement!

Hand in time TOMORROW! Hope the guys like what we have produced.. We will keep you updated!