Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. It’s been five days since my last blog post.

I don’t believe in making excuses, but allow me to quickly explain:

These past couple weeks for me have been crazy, between work, school, and everything in between. Mid terms and thesis creative project due last week, website storyboards due this week. As much as I’ve entered into this haze of sleep deprivation, constant computer attachment and work overload, it’s actually been good in terms of exploring my store concept in various ways and starting to put together some visual materials.

For my creative project, I decided to compile and explore my sources of inspiration, and create a mini-series of printed t-shirts representing that. Et voila! The idea was to try to make them look vintage and reflect the aesthetic of the store environment.

Unfortunately in my mad rush to get out the door the morning they were due, my photographs weren’t very good.

For the first one, I did a series on words representing my store concept and the inspiration behind it. Basically a collage of ideas and concepts. No photo, sorry.

The second was more abstract, playing on the idea of a floor plan. The photo didn’t turn out, but here’s the graphic.

And the last (my personal favourite) was based on my collection of inspirational images. I can’t wait to start wearing this, I’m really happy with how it turned out and the colours that emerged.

And there you have it! Nothing that will launch me into a t-shirt designing career (at least not yet), but a good means of exploring and communicating some of the ways and images I use for inspiration.

The website I’m currently working on is for bicyclette, and meant to act as a supporting platform for this blog. I’ll have some key pieces of information on there that will give people a sense of my store concept without having to flip through posts. These are just rough storyboards, but they give you a sense of the overall look and feel.

And there you have it, a little peak at what I’ve been up to recently and proof that I’ve been busy!

ps. Happy Halloween! I’m about to go put the finishing touches on my costume, which I’m extremely excited about. I’ll post photos of tomorrow. What’s everyone dressing up as?