This month's challenge is about your individual location in the world. When I was making soap at Absolute Soap, we were asked by a local magazine, Palm Beach Illustrated, to create a bar of soap that represented Palm Beach, Florida, for their 60th Anniversary glossy magazine edition. We gave it a lot of thought. Palm Beach is known for some of the most expensive real estate in the country, Worth Avenue is Palm Beach's version of Hollywood's Rodeo Drive, there were cute narrow side streets with historical and tiny houses and then massive grand mansions with separate entrances for deliveries and separate buildings for the owner's staff to live. Crazy wealth. We had plenty of ideas to represent wealth, but the idea that kept pulling at me was the beautiful blue-green ocean lining the island along beaches that are mostly untouched and pure.
Our creation for the magazine assignment turned out to be our top selling soap: Palm Beach Illustrated soap. Scented with a tropical sweet fruity and floral blend which matched perfectly. This was our interpretation of Palm Beach's ocean.
So the challenge for you is to evaluate your surroundings, whether it's about the traffic or hustle and bustle of your city, or the scenery. You can be as detail-oriented or as broad stroked as you want about the place you are living in right now.
When you post your pictures on the Facebook page: The Soap Challenge Group, please explain the design and how it fits with your location. Also include #locationiseverything
The winner and runner up will be announced and posted here on this blog along with their photo, name and business name (if provided in their challenge post).
Thank you for being a part of the Soap Challenge group! And if you haven't joined the Facebook Group, come and request to join and I will accept your request as soon as I see it!
UPDATE:
Our creation for the magazine assignment turned out to be our top selling soap: Palm Beach Illustrated soap. Scented with a tropical sweet fruity and floral blend which matched perfectly. This was our interpretation of Palm Beach's ocean.
I added ground oatmeal for my bottom layer (sand), apricot meal pencil line (crushed shells), white chopped soap embed layer (large shells and rocks), blue/green Peacock mica swirly layer (ocean) and topped with a sprinkle of Goldfinger mica (which represents the wealth all around the island).
So the challenge for you is to evaluate your surroundings, whether it's about the traffic or hustle and bustle of your city, or the scenery. You can be as detail-oriented or as broad stroked as you want about the place you are living in right now.
When you post your pictures on the Facebook page: The Soap Challenge Group, please explain the design and how it fits with your location. Also include #locationiseverything
The winner and runner up will be announced and posted here on this blog along with their photo, name and business name (if provided in their challenge post).
Thank you for being a part of the Soap Challenge group! And if you haven't joined the Facebook Group, come and request to join and I will accept your request as soon as I see it!
Challenge due date: FEBRUARY 7, 2015
I wish you all inspiration and fun on this project. Dig deep, as I always say....
xoxo Joanna
UPDATE:
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