Creative
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Anxiety 1.0
I remember one day standing at my back door, looking out into a sunny garden with a cup of coffee in my hand, I wanted to go out and sit on the garden bench, but I couldn’t. No matter how I tried my body wouldn’t let me walk out of the door and sit in the garden. I don’t know why even now, I wasn’t scared, I wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything, I just couldn’t go outside. Now for me, someone who has travelled around the world, taken flight only trips to Australia and the Greek islands, been around Europe on the unlimited train travel ticket known as Inter-rail,…
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Collaboration 1.0
Now going it alone is also scary, to most, there are some that don’t bat an eyelid and go head on into anything and I’m not one of them, and I guess if you are reading this then you aren’t either. I have yet to join any support groups, entrepreneur social groups or anything like that but currently I do have a friend in a similar situation, he’s currently un-employed or rather between contracts but has decided to give the entrepreneurial side of things a bash, whereas before he’s been contracting for other firms and in a similar vein to myself always working for someone else, and not for himself…
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Spooky 1.2
So the first design out of the gate wasn’t bad, a bit bulky where I was looking for sleek and elegant, and there was some 3D print issues with bad underhands etc but on the right road. I gave some feedback and he put those suggestions into the design straightaway. I then decided so tweek a few variations and it took another couple of revisions to get those right. Then I asked to be split down the middle with a key to join the 2 parts together, this he did within a day and the design was complete I wasn’t fully sure on the design but as I was about…
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PoD 1.2
So now I’m setting up Amazon Merch, I’ve created a few new designs in the correct size and saved them out as PNGs with transparent backgrounds. One thing I have noticed is that the interface to Merch is very simple and offers no editing facilities at all unlike Cafepress etc. The 4500px x 5400px is large and so is the area on the T-shirt so you often need to make small designs on a large template, this is where the transparency of PNG comes in handy. You can leave a lot of the area not needed as transparent and place the main design where you like in that area, so…
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Spooky 1.1
So I had a plan and a design I drew up, I had some complimentary products designed and was all keen to get into production, but one problem, I’m no 3D designer and it was proving difficult to put these plans into action without being able to create my ‘master mould’ from which I could cast my product. I need the master mould as from this I could create not only the main product, but also I could customise that to create others. I had the idea to now only create my product, which was going to be cast from recycled aluminium from several cast off computer heat sinks and…
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Spooky 1.0
Ok so this now brings me to a ‘secret project’, something that will be revealed when I am ready to and I’ve got all the relevant parts in place. I don’t want to reveal just yet as I don’t want anyone to steal the idea and beat me to market, I also want to retain some secrecy until I’ve got any copyrights and trademarks in place and also the domain registered. I’m hoping this one will take off so I’ve got to, for now, preserve the idea This brings me to another important note. Copyright, Trademarks and IP (Intellectual Property), as you may be aware there are laws that can…
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Project Plan 1.8
The next project (in danger of spreading too thin here but…) the next project is to make a lightbox. So this would be a papercut lightbox, I’ve seen some very good ones on Instagram, someone who goes by the name of dr.papperoni. These lightboxes are hand made and you can buy the paper cut kits from his website and the DIY videos and reels he puts out are a real inspiration. The ones he does are also very popular and cover a lot of well known themes like cult movies and games. I want to steer away from this though as I’m always wary of copyright and also there…
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Project Plan 1.7
Ok so this project is something new I’m working on and as yet it’s a secret so it will be known as “Project Spooky” this is something you may now be able to have a good guess at but the actual name and the ideas behind will be secret until closer to launch or maybe even after launch depending on progress. I’m hoping this will be a mix of up cycling, candles and even online NFTs, so yes it’s a very mixed bag and sounds, well sounds kind of horrendous but once revealed it will make sense, but for now, its “Project Spooky” and this is just a placeholder