Gnomes Homes Blog

The printing company finished with our first set of blankets and sent us the samples. They assured me that no simplification of the artwork would be needed, but there was some miscommunication because they did end up reducing the colours to 10. It doesn’t really matter since I am still very pleased with the results.

Note: The second blanket has doors and windows that needs to be cut out and seamed.

Here is the first set of logo design for Gnomes Homes. The website is currently using 11 which is the one I prefer, so it wins by default! I have yet to show these to Sean or the rest of my design advisors.

 I’ve started building the website for Gnomes Homes. Here’s a look at my process.

Clean

Colors
 

Minimalism – Lots of white space

I definitely wanted the website to look clean, but also to be playful and cartoony. Here is the final mockup. The tree was added to anchor the website – a floating gnome home does look a little odd.

The spaceship theme. I probably won’t draw any more until we have samples printed from the textile printers. They assure me that their printers are very precise and that I do not need to simplify the artwork – but I am a little skeptical.

The first set of artwork for the blankets that will decorate the inside of the play house. The blankets will be double sided – gnomes on one side, and submarine on the other. Many more themes are in progress. These are huge, 10 x 2.5 feet –  and of course vectors!

I have been speaking to textile manufacturers from Vancouver and Toronto and have not been able to find a company that will print large continuous artwork on fleece blankets. I finally found a company in China that is willing to try, thought I still have to split the artwork into 2 pieces. The company is Shanghai Raiz – so far I have not been able to find any negative reports on them on the Interweb.

Here are the schematics for the interior and exterior blankets. These are the plans I have been following to create the artwork for the blankets.

As suggested by our Bootup Labs advisor Boris Mann, we have started a blog for the development of Gnomes Homes. I’ve started by importing posts from my art blog (as indicated by the jahzel.com labels on the artwork). Photographs of Sean’s garage with life size prototypes will come very soon.

 Robot sketches for the spaceship theme.

A quick paper prototype to test the blanket design.

These are sketches and ideas for the blankets that will decorate the interior of the play house.