This Designer Makes a Living Freelancing For Museums

Starting with Fred & Friends back in 2009, Rebecca Chitty has now licensed 30+ ideas to 8 different companies in the UK, Europe, and the US. Go Rebecca! https://www.productofyourenvironment.co.uk She also works quite a bit with museums and gallery shops. For example, when the British Library was having a gothic literature exhibition, they approached Rebecca to design a product that was based on the collection and exhibition. Check out Rebecca's licensed inventions on the market: https://www.productofyourenvironment.co.uk/licensed-products Stephen interviews Rebecca about her creative process as a designer, how she got started licensing her ideas for novelty gifts to Fred & Friends, how she gets paid, the importance of London Design week shows, how professional your work needs to look to be licensed, the importance of persistence, the difficulty of getting an idea taken on, and more. She never builds prototypes for her novelty gift designs! And she doesn't protect them either. More about Rebecca Chitty: "Product of Your Environment is a 'one-woman-band' studio founded by Artist & Designer Rebecca Chitty, an MA graduate of Central St.Martins with a background in Illustration, Art Direction and Set Design. Launched in 2006, her first product the ‘Exorcise Book’ was immediately snapped up by the uber-cool Colette store in Paris. Rebecca's company has evolved from designing and developing own-brand home and gift products - stocked in Tate Modern and the Design Museum amongst others - to specialising in creating bespoke product ranges, events and workshops for cultural venues, and licensing ideas to major gift companies to develop into products that sell worldwide. Do you need help with your invention idea? Do you have an invention idea and don’t know what to do next? How do you license an idea? How do you patent an invention? Learn how to become a profitable inventor and earn passive income from your creativity following the advice of inventors Stephen Key and Andrew Krauss. They are the world's leading exp