Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The Skirt-o-Matic brings you your perfect skirt, made exactly how you want it. You build your skirt, we make it!
The basic Skirt-o-Matic skirt is a fully lined pencil skirt with a waist band, four darts front and back (eight in total), a choice of three vent styles at the back and is 26 inches in length. There is an 8 inch invisible zip on the left-hand side of the skirt with a button closure on the waistband.

Sophistikitten's Skirt-o-Matic title design by Ian Marsden
How to use the Skirt-o-Matic
Use the buttons on the illustration above to work out exactly what features you want on your skirt, then order the features below. It’s that simple!
You will have a skirt that is customised just for you.
Go to Sophistikitten’s Website!

The main Sophistikitten's Skirt-o-Matic interactive Flash tool
It was a lot of fun to design the Skirt-O-Matic interactive flash design tool for Sophistikitten.
The background graphic with the buttons etc was designed by Proletkult Graphik by the way.
A fine London-based design outfit.
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Farbige Illustration für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag zum Artikel ‘Der Kampf um die Publikation’ von Ian D. Marsden

Bleistiftskizzen der Roboter in meinem Moleskine Skizzenbuch. Preperatory pencil sketches of the robots in my Moleskine sketchbook.

Hier ist die Illustration in Adobe Illustrator bereits ausgelegt. Das Layout wird festgelegt - der rote Rahmen zeigt den Ausschnitt wie die Zeichnung schlussendlich in der NZZ gedruckt werden wird. Die beiden Forscher sind bereits als Linienzeichnung fertig aber die Roboter existieren nur als Scribbles - bis ich mit meinen Bleistiftstudien zufrieden bin. Ich bin ein grosser Fan von Robotern also wollte ich ein paar ganz schöne ‘klassische’ Roboter entwerfen. This is the Layout stage in Adobe Illustrator. The two scientists have completed line-art but aren’t colored yet. The robots are only scribbles - I was waiting for approval from the editors and also still creating pencil sketches of the robots. I am a big fan of robots so I wanted to create some really nice, retro-style robots.

Die fertige Illustration - erstellt in Adobe Illustrator CS3. Erschienen in der NZZ am Sonntag am 6 Juli 2008. The finished illustration created in Adobe Illustrator published in NZZ on Sunday July 6th 2008.
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