Fox & Fancy

Website and Branding Assets

I originally started Fox & Fancy in 2012 with my BFF Lisa; back then it was a tiny 8-piece leather jewellery collection that was just meant to be a fun way to spend the summer. I didn't know much about making jewellery, but I loved creating our brand, building our website, and producing all of our branding assets - business cards, packaging, signage, product photography, promotional items, and various other odds and ends. (And yes, I did eventually learn how to make jewellery too.)

When Lisa went back to grad school, I decided to keep Fox & Fancy going on my own, and in November 2015, I launched my first stationery collection. A little over 2 years later, the current line includes over 150 designs (and counting!) and we've been featured online and in print by some very fine publications.

Fox & Fancy stationery and other sundry items are now available online, in brick and mortar stores across North America, and at your favourite local craft markets.

Visit the website to see more!

• Date: August 2012 - Present
• Client: Fox & Fancy

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Stationery Design

Sweet and Sassy Stationery for All Occasions

The Fox & Fancy stationery line includes a wide range of greeting cards (currently over 100 designs for a variety of occasions), as well as notepads, recipe cards, gift wrap and tags, buttons and tote bags, all lovingly designed for our customers who are avid stationers and letter-writing enthusiasts!

• Date: November 2015, onwards
• Purchase: on foxandfancy.com or on Etsy.

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Wedding Design

Various Clients

I love working with couples to create dreamy stationery for once-in-a-lifetime events. I've been lucky enough to work with over a dozen couples who have trusted me to create their wedding stationery suites, day-of stationery, and even wedding websites!

This is what Tiffany + Michael had to say about working with me:

"We met with Rachel about a year before our wedding to discuss stationery. My fiance and I had a bunch of highly unrelated thematic ideas about what we wanted our invitations to look like. Rachel took a look at our pinterest board, asked us some questions about our venue and decor, and helped us come up with a whimsical floral theme that was exactly what we had been imagining!

We knew we needed our invitations to include directions, because our ceremony location is tucked away and hard to find - even on Google Maps - and yet Rachel designed a map that makes the route appear simple (and somehow adorable)!

Also, apparently when Rachel went to pick up our Save the Dates, some of the cards had been double printed, making the writing wonky and the images unclear. However, we never would have even known, because before Rachel gave the cards to us, she went through every single invite, discovered the error, had the printer replace the troublesome cards, and we received a perfect set, none the wiser of the error.

Needless to say, we were thrilled with the invitations we received, and they turned out better than we ever could have pictured! They now figure prominently on the fridges of friends and family members. Almost every guest who has RSVP'd to the wedding has had a comment about how beautiful, cute, and uniquely 'us' our invitations are.

Rachel is incredibly awesome, and we are so grateful to her for helping us set the tone for our big day with her stationery!"

• Date: 2014 - Present
• Clients: Various

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BCFS

2017/18 Weekly Planner + Misc Projects

Last year I had the amazing opportunity to work with the BCFS to create their 2017/18 Weekly planner that gets distributed to every university student currently enrolled at a BC university. (I think I still have my planners from undergrad in a box somewhere, so you can imagine how excited I was to get the call.) Since then, I've also been able to work with them on a few other projects, including posters and leaflets for the both Student's Union Legal Assistance Plan, and the Fairness for International Students campaign.

• Date: 2016-2017
• Client: British Columbia Federation of Students

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Posters & Illustrations

Self-initiated and otherwise.

• Date: 2011-2015
• Client: Various

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Catalogues and Lookbooks

Various Clients

Some of my very favourite types of projects are lookbooks, catalogues, and magazine layouts. (Any opportunity to use InDesign, really.)

• Date: 2016-2017
• Client: Fox & Fancy, First Growth Reclaimed Design, and Others

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Alex Hass Design + Art

Website Design and Development

Alex and I worked together to create a new portfolio website to showcase her beautiful images and design work. Her main concern was displaying her work in a simple, clean way, that allowed the viewer to easily see her full body of work. As such, I came up with a simple static website that utilized a full-screen slideshow effect to seemlessly rotate between images and galleries, with an intuitive way to stop and examine each image fully without distracting navigational elements.

• Date: March 2014
• Client: Alex Hass
• Website: alexhass.ca

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Business Cards, etc.

Branding assets + more for various clients

• Date: 2013-1015
• Clients: University of Toronto, First Growth Reclaimed, Brianne Tulk, Fox & Fancy, Lisa Rosenberg, Sarah Snyder, Kitchen Party Preserves, Oakland Leatherworks

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