player_1: Jamestown Charge Ship Dress Shirt

The latest in our player_1 collection was released over the weekend, featuring Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony.

Again, another personal favourite of mine, I spent days on the Martian frontier shooting at pixelated space aliens and attempting to keep from throwing my controller across the room from sheer frustration ;) I think at one point we placed #83 on the leaderboards going through the Gauntlet on Divine. I also found myself humming bits of the soundtrack while I did the dishes and similarly inane daily tasks. It all shortly turned into a well of inspiration, and soon I found myself on the phone with the guys at Final Form Games talking about shirts and junk.

The art used for the shirt is straight from the ship and weapon options screen, for the Charge Ball ship.

You can get the shirt here, priced at $35.

Coincidentally, Jamestown was just released in this year's Humble Indie Bundle, please check it out and donate what you can.

And Happy Holidays internet-land!

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player_1 and Space Pirates and Zombies

player_1 is our new collection of licensed merchandise. It features independently developed video games and their awesome art. Each shirt uses in-game imagery and graphics screen printed in white on black dress shirts. The idea behind the collection is to provide high quality shirts for gamers and save them from the fashion coma that is the screen printed t-shirt.

The first in the collection is for the game SPAZ, or Space Pirates and Zombies. After playing countless hours of the game, I was inspired by a lot of the blueprints for the different ships and all the fantastic background art that appeared through out my many space adventures.

With sourcing the shirts from a local suit shop in LA's fashion district, we were able to find an amazing artist and screen printer who worked in the area as well.

Shortly after fidgeting on the art and trips to the screen printer, we are proud to present the officially licensed Space Pirates and Zombies Dress Shirt.

We will be launching a new shirt from a different game every two weeks and currently have about 4 more titles that will be involved, so keep watch for more merch!

Stay casual, fashionable, and video games :D

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Behind the Magick:A Short Story About a Bathrobe

My power colour is Purple.

After jamming out on some local co-op with a friend -- me on the mouse and keys, he on his gamepad...
My friend: "Wouldn't it be cool if you made Magicka Robes?"
Me: "Wouldn't it be cool if I made Magicka Bathrobes?"

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Old Projects, New Post:The Harley Quinn Dress

Inspired by the character Harley Quinn from the Batman comics.


September 2009

Was posted on my Etsy store about a year ago and bought by a lovely lady in Australia who provided this picture of her wearing the dress:

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Old Projects, New Post:The Left 4 Dead Collection

For the past year I have been focused on some of my own designs as seen on my storefront 16 Bit Fashion. The inspiration behind many of the items are found in comic book and videogame art and culture. This is the first item that appeared on the store that received any recognition in the world of geekery. It is the Health Pack, the in-game item used to heal your teammates who become injured by various zombie inflicted afflictions in the videogame Left 4 Dead. After nights of executing zombies with my friends, and days of sewing together various projects... the merger of the two ideas seemed inevitable. Noticing that there wasn't anything else like it currently available to gamers such as myself, it came into creation and was quickly brought to the attention of Destructoid, a very popular gaming news website and blog. Shortly after, it was the only thing I was making for quite a while... they are currently still in high demand for convention goers, cosplayers, and overall enthusiast. Listed below are the many stages of the design through this last year.

In this experience, I have become aware of the marketability of design and importance of versatility and growth of a product. It is something I attempt to carry with all the items I continue to create for my store, and an awareness I bring to the development of all projects I work on for other designers.


The Health pack in-game.


Another picture of the pack as it appears in the game.


June 2009: L4D Health Pack


June 2009: L4D Health Pack Inspired Coin Purses


August 2009: L4D Health Pack with FIRST AID Detail


February 2010: L4D Health Pack Inspired Purse


April 2010: L4D2 Health Pack


June 2010: L4D2 iPad/Netbook Messenger Bag





Currently finishing a custom Health Pack that will fit a MacBook size 13" x 9".

UPDATE 2011: Although the Health Packs are no longer available to purchase, you can find them here.

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Old Projects, New Post:Reconstructed Basmati Rice Bag

My client found this bag of rice at Costco and after finishing it off thought it would make a great tote, she was right:


Basmati Rice Tote January 2010

The bag itself is Burlap, lined in purple broadcloth with molded red zipper and finished on the sides with a red top-stitch. I also put a small pocket on the inside (not shown).

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Old Projects, New Post:Amilie's Dresses

I realize I haven't updated this blog in a while, so I thought I'd post some stuff I did a while ago. It's good to be so busy that you don't have time for blogging, but I'm finally making some time to make these things public and write a bit about what I'm doing. That being said, the next few posts will be a little retroactive in nature.

In this post are little dresses I made for my 1 year old niece, Amilie, last year.


Yo Gabba Gabba inspired Foofa Dress July 2009


Spiderman Dress made out of a reconstructed t-shirt December 2009


I am currently working on some NDA protected projects with a couple designers and continuing to take on-line orders on my Etsy store for custom made comic book and videogame inspired items. The Spiderman dress was originally a shirt I had for sale on the Etsy page, but because of copyright issues Marvel had me remove my listing. It's been hard trying to balance creating completely original items that are inspired by certain "intellectual properties", so far it's only been Marvel. I think I tread the fine line. In the face of it all I am still very inspired by the art I find in comic books, as will be seen in my upcoming Comic Book Chic Line; and strongly believe that no-one can translate videogame pieces into the 3 dimensional world like I do.

I'm still trying to figure out my place as a designer... in the meantime, I'm having a lot of fun experimenting with different ideas/methods and taking on freelance jobs. It is so gratifying to be able to help another designer put their ideas into motion, and there are very few things that compare to the feeling of seeing a project from inception to production. Hopefully I'll have pictures of my more private jobs when they're ready to be introduced to the market.

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Recent Projects

ABC's and Stripes Crib Set








The Princess Bride - Buttercup's Wedding Dress Replica




Shower Curtain


Currently Working On:
Product Development - Soy Joy / Makai Events
Scarf Production - Marjorie Linnea
Hand Painted Japanese Chair Covers - Paula

Awaiting approval on other projects, looking a little slow for the beginning of the year =( Picking up gradually though.. more pics coming soon!

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New Stuff

I haven't been able to update recently =( Super busy with orders, yay, here's stuff I did a couple months ago:


Covered canvases and pillows for John Scott


T-Shirt Reconstruction for Ji
More pictures by Charlie Chu


Baby Crib Bumper for Anea


Bassinet Liner


Also made matching curtains from this silk sheer, was supposed to get pictures of them installed from the client... but she never got around to it.


Swags for Shana

Currently working on:
Custom men's jackets - Redline 99
Purse organizers - Tote All Bag
Cushions, umbrella cover - thomas-somero design
Crib Set - Jamie
Garment Samples - Candace

Just finished Princess Buttercup's wedding dress from The Princess Bride for a client. Will post pictures once I've got them. Watch out for some Original Sin at my etsy in the next week.

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Reconstructing Ashley

Shirt reconstruction for Ashley. All the finished items were once t-shirts. With the help of free printable patterns @ www.burdastyle.com I transformed her over sized tees to fun fashionable wears!


Ashley in "Dilla Black"


Before


After





Ashley in "Dilla White"


Before


After


"Dilla White" and "Stussy Graffiti Purse"




Graffiti Shirt Before


After




Just finished huge order for Image Solutions, button holes and button placement for chef coats. That wasn't as fun as some of my other stuff, but made bank on the order =)Taking it slow for a couple weeks to get caught up with all my custom orders.

Bagged new clients: Tykecoon.com and Rami Kashou from last season's Project Runway. Still keeping busy, more pictures to come!!

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