Wednesday, March 31, 2010


For the display space I was thinking of something very unorthodox. The space will be pyramid in shape with glass walls. There will be two levels and the way to access the second level will be a spiral staircase in the middle.

Product Line


I would like to do a line of necklaces. I was thinking it would be either based on the four elements or the four seasons.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Sketches for display space in world


I imagine my design space to be an open space without walls. I was thinking of having stairs that lead people up big stairs that would have a single artwork at the top. I love the idea that nothing can be destroyed by the weather elements and there are not really rules of building to stop me from making a funky building.

Sketch for product line

I love the idea of doing lamps for my product line. I love lamps because they can be so geometric in form and you are limitless when it comes to design. I want to focus on a modern form but an eclectic design of textures and patterns for the decoration of the lamp shades.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Project 1 prelim: Create Line of Objects in SL

There are two "lines" of objects I am interested in designing - both involve clothing.

One: Cosplay for Naruto manga/anime

In the real world it is called cosplay - dressing up like characters from your favorite manga or anime. In SL, I guess it's just creating your SL persona. This first idea is design a "line" of objects that are clothing items considered "ninja gear" in the Naruto universe. To the right are some examples I found in one of the largest cosplay shopping areas I know of at Konoha Village [click for larger image].

top: uchiha gear:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shinobi/131/2/27
left: cosplay full:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shinobi/131/2/27
right: jonin vest:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shinobi/81/211/1040


Two: Vintage line of clothing

Not sure what the focus would be, possibly Rockabilly as I found some neat stuff. For this, I just did a search for various types of clothing items or fashion types and stumbled around SL until I found things I liked. For this it would probably be a complete outfit, like bottom, top and accessory - I would really like to figure out how to make belts and scarves, though I didn't find any examples of scarves anywhere, unless I just missed them.  To the right are some examples I found [click for larger image].

left: sweater/vest:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bangu/32/85/1008
top right: vintage dress:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Divine%20Oasis/213/25/23
bottom right: belts:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Belgique/80/175/26


-Maiha Kimono-