illustration: cheese!

A leftover concept from Mariessa’s tshirt preliminary designs.

Since her brand — Loves, Mariessa — is very much based in the cool and a stylistic pursuit of the fashionable, I loved the idea of the paparazzi camera, one version with cheese and one with love. In this day and age of hyper documentation, we’re taking pictures of everything, Twittering our every thought and treating gossip like the news. The pop of the flashbulb reinforces self worth and promotes envy, it seems.

My favorite part? Has to be the half smile that could be a sly grin or a cool wink, maybe both.