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rickshaw bag 2012

RED bird by lilboutlot
RICKSHAW MESSENGER BAGS by TAS mania for goAWAYGEAR

A powerhouse of versatility, the Rickshaw Zero Messenger Bag is perfect as a workday commuter, overnight attaché, or travel bag! Vibrantly printed with your custom artwork or text on rugged polyester and designed with a unique accessories system, this bag is as customizable inside as it is outside. Handmade for you with a focus on environmental sustainability, this bag combines beautiful form, function, and a small ecological footprint.

10,000 hours of doing something makes you a master?

Mary Mack and Friends - travel postcard by lilboutlot

Imagine an image illustration that takes 11 years.  In the age of instant gratification and ADHD, I think I am on to something.   I handmade or hand touched if you will,  everything in this illustration.  I clicked the photos of the elephants in Addo Elephant Park 2008, crossed the bridge in Prague 2001,  painted the pinking shears  at my mom and dad's house in 2008,  adobe illustrated birds and babbles 2008- 2012 and morphed the characters from my travel happy small people yesterday.   This is my 10,000 hours, coming together.  It is a long sitting still effort.  Other may do it by clipping and copying.   For me I have "first hand" knowledge of every little piece of the story.  Not sure why.  But it is my way

                  Rabbit Bear Peace Bodies by lilboutlot

why RGB and CMYK? why not just one?

It  really is frustrating, that colors have to be different for print, for web, for whatever.  Let's just make it easy already. 

Remove the Muzzle

Back at it!  After  three years of working with a  muzzle on my  design work, I am back to producing!  No more U.S. PEACE CORPS!  I now can link my internet identities!  Mention Macedonia with goAWAY gear and Travel Happy.    I look forward to posting happy! 

This is the marketing/packaging drafts for an eco design project working with artisans in Macedonia.  Ideas to Real in WOOD!   

      handmade is better made                        time honored is fair wage

 

Right below are some links to look at for  a broader view!

European Culture Foundation  RHIZ  network

PHOTO ALBUM OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION PROCESS 

fade in series

fade in by lilboutlot

Fade in Flow by lilboutlot

First Poster

Willow Meanie's Tethered Birds 

TAS mania for goAWAYgear.com copyright 2011 all right reserved

There is such a  discussion on  what size to make a poster.  Frame it? Should it be vintage poster size? Half sheet? European sized?    Look for mine to be half sheet and vintage poster size.   The files are premium pixel sized  original made in  adobe illustrator.  Like the curtains?  handmade pattern.   I think I am good a abstract.  I am on to something here.  Just need the time!    P.S.  I will come back and reference the sizes. 

here is a hint to what's seeds might sprout

Sunglasses for a NEW view by lilboutlot

 copyright 2011 TAS mania for goAWAYgear.com  LLC

birds, scissors, string and cages, tethers and Willow Meanie is forming. . . 

 

Ladybird #2             Ladybird #3 by lilboutlot    Ladybird #1 by lilboutlot

Masking on Adobe Illustrator

 

silence continues

my portfolio is getting a new look.  I am working with three story lines.   That means, no previews on this site.  In my silence I am get things, thought of, experienced, cherished and dream of   down on paper. 

 

inside out

inside out....whose inside whose outside  TAS mania copyright 2010