Meet Vincent & Nooma
The husband and wife team behind Inviciti, a small business they started in 2013 on the now well-known Etsy marketplace. Vincent does the actual casting of all Inviciti’s pewter pieces while they both design everything in their shop. Sharing a similar aesthetic, they each travel their own path with regards to style.
“Sometimes our styles seem to converge as we pick up on the vibe of each other. Sometimes our work feels similar and sometimes it’s like night and day! We hope it makes for an interesting array of pieces to choose from. In the product descriptions you can find out which one of us made a particular design. If you’ve been following our work for a while, maybe you can even guess which one of us made a certain design. It keeps things fun and also serves as a record to help us remember. There have been times when a piece designed many years ago looks like it could’ve been made by either of us and we have a hard time remembering which of us actually made it!”
Nooma has a background in graphic design, but started off making jewelry almost 30 years ago, beginning with ceramics classes where she learned the basics of the wheel, fell in love with clay, and then began making ceramic beads to use in her own jewelry designs. Some years later she took one-on-one workshop with a master metalsmith in Ocala Florida and made sterling silver jewerly for the next 5 years which she sold in her first two Etsy shops, back when Etsy first came on the scene.
While Nooma was working at an Orlando, FL company as a graphic artist and still making jewelry on the side, Vincent began working at the same company doing internet marketing, and as they say, the rest is history! Eventually, they both quit their ‘day’ jobs after Vincent taught himself how to cast metal with a focus on components for jewelry-makers, and Inviciti (which had a different name back then) was born. Nooma, being eager to use clay again gravitated away from making finished jewelry and turned her energy toward making pieces for Inviciti by sculpting prototypes using clay, while Vincent was very inventive in coming up with his own unique ways to make prototypes from wood and other materials.
Vincent’s background in marketing came in handy for getting their work out there and growing their social media prescence. He is also very fond of engaging with customers and has a knack for keeping up with shop messages and social media interactions. Nooma, having experience in product photography, takes care of that side of things: doing photos, website design and other marketing materials, as well as all shipping of orders. Aside from casting, Vincent also does all the metal finishing. They could use a few more hands on deck, but being that Inviciti is run from home, it makes it difficult to hire help. Suffice to say, Inviciti keeps them both very busy!
“We’re happy you found us and are interested enough to read our About Page! We are accessible and love talking about our work and all things creative, so please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime.“
Mission Statement
With the takeover of our planet by large, faceless and seemingly uncaring corporations, we believe small businesses are very important to the future of our world, especially to those who still care about not only quality, but also the intention behind the products they buy. In our personal experience, we feel a certain magic and connection to objects that are made by people that we can actually meet, or learn a little something about, even if we can only ‘meet’ them virtually.
A product that isn’t made solely for profit, but because the person(s) behind it actually love the idea, the item, or the process of creating it, is an item that will bring with it a positive energy that can benefit others in a more meaningful way. Careful observers of life, will nderstand this is true and very real.
We hope you find something you can connect with in our work and in knowing a little something about the two people behind the work.
Sincerely,
Inviciti
We design all the pieces you see on this website, unless otherwise stated in a product description. Our raw pewter is made liquid and then poured into molds to become what you see. Once in a while we offer ‘handpainted by us’ brass or copper pieces that were made by someone else.
Original Designs Made from Scratch
A Bit About Our Design Process
We create what’s called a ‘master’ piece, usually from sculptable materials like metal clay or stoneware clay. Vincent likes to experiment using wood or metal materials as his master. Nooma is partial to clay, and fires her master pieces in a kiln. Once we have a good number of new designs or master pieces, Vincent uses a machine called a vulcanizer to create the mold of our latest creations. He then uses a process called spincasting to cast pewter into the mold, and finally, cleans up the pieces by clipping and filing, so they can get ‘blackened’ with an oxidizer and go into a tumbler.
