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Prideful Trinkets is a feature in a more extensive design exhibit created by NuVu and the Design Museum Everywhere that looks to celebrate queer youth living as their authentic selves. The Prideful Trinkets feature is made up of four miniature tables. Each has a prominent queer artist associated with it in recognition of LGBTQ history month. A badge in the shape of a unicorn accompanies this. These badges can be swapped in and out of a frame that is given to all the guests at the event. The capability allows every individual to customize their badge to represent their authentic self.

I honestly don't know how to feel about this studio. Going into it, I was bummed out by the studio selections. I put this studio as my first choice hoping I would be able to design something physically. In that sense, I got my wish. My larger problem was the studio structure. It felt rushed at times and hyper-fixated on unimportant parts. The desk crits we had also felt more like a burden, than an actual desk crit that was beneficial to our project. There was also a lack of contact with our client, and I think we overall handled that interaction poorly. All these elements derailed me from wanting to work and led to my being checked out, especially the first two weeks. Things got a little better once we were actually designing the project, but we went through almost no concept development. The physical fabrication and the ideas of it stayed the same pretty much from the start. It went under a little iteration in the mid-review, but that was it. When it came to my core growth for the studio, it felt different than other studios. Since I am not part of the queer community, it put me in a very uncomfortable situation. The thing is, I'm not even sure I feel better after it. I was scared to ask questions out of fear that I would say something wrong, and mainly just incorporated what my queer classmates suggested.