Archive for August 25th, 2006

Iki halters

Friday, August 25th, 2006

When I saw these new halters from Iki show up on Nephilaine Protagonist’s blog I was so excited. Stylistically, visually, these halters carry all of the hallmarks of the other Iki casuals: unpretentious, simple, but extravagantly lavished with technical attention, detail and construction expertise.
The fabric textures that were chosen, the color saturation, the highlighting, [...]

Miriel’s Fairy Tale

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Miriel Enfield’s Fairy Tale release is a medieval inspired gown and circlet. While I really like the gown — all hand drawn, which makes the tapestry embroidery all the more impressive — the item which has kept me in a state of hyper detailed shock is the incredible circlets that accessorize this outfit so [...]

Classifieds at Second Man

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Nick Shaftoe, the Second Man, created a site dubbed Classifieds.
If you’re a designer who’d like a low maintenance, low hassle way to announce new products and you don’t want to get a blog at Blogger, maybe this is for you.

More merchandise ad creation guidelines

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Alaska Metropolitan has written several more design guidelines for merchandise ads, including some great examples of what not to do — like the ad shown left. (Auugh! My eyes. My eyes!)
Where Kala Bijoux’s post was a little more off-the-cuff, Alaska’s put a lot of thought and careful consideration into her post. There’s a lot [...]