Fran_co is an offshoot of Fran Allisons making practice. It is a design initiative aiming to celebrate, preserve, share and pay homage to smart designs and inventions; often in the reimaging or invention of catches and natty ways to attach jewellery to the body.

‘The creative journey to a completed object is full of influences, failures, iterations, chance encounters, hunches’ and as Steven Johnson says in Where do Good ideas Come From? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU) ‘its important to create spaces where ideas can mingle and swap and create new ideas. Every good idea is built on other good ideas.’Fran Allison is a contemporary New Zealand jeweller.  She is also a senior lecturer in jewellery at the School of Creative Arts, Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland.