RPM-Car

I have been doing a commision for RPM-Car of free racing clothes. They are a company who understand SL and have a permananet display at Dutch Business Park.

I am making several sets of clothes and the prototype red and black set is show above. This will have a shirt, mens pants and mini-skirt.

Ms. Jane - New dress and shoes

After a lot of adjusting, the Ms. Jane dress is ready for sale. The outfit consists of a top, blouse, glitch pants, prim skirt, stockings and shoes.

The pattern is all my own and based on a set of mix and match colours. I like the dragonfly shape and it looks lovely against the blue and green material.

The shoes are 13 prims and I am quite proud of them. They are quite different, yet will match many different clothes.

The shoes will match the different outfits that i have in production. Hope you like them.

Dutch Business Park - Photos

Dutch Business Park is ready to open! Here are a few pictures of my work.

Apart from the trees and a few other things the landscaping, buildings, furniture and shops are my own work.

From Designs by Asp

The entrance to the RPM Car section of the Region uses car shapes and 1950's car-parts including bonnet shapes, chrome, lights, pistons and oil. The entrance is a teleport to the car display 250m above.

Taking a break beside one of my waterfalls.

The view from reception looking over the surfing area. We have a shop at the waters edge selling surf gear including surfboards, windsurfers and kite boards.

I have tried to bring some of the best of SL to the Dutch Business Park region, with attractive landscaping and many things to do. My vision is of a company coming here and having their employes from around the world meet and have fun doing things together and learning about each other in a place with little stress and a lot of freedom.

The boat area in Dutch Business Parks. This is the mooring for the boats and sits over the top of the Underlake ballroom. I managed to get a sailing course onto the sim and this is the mooring point for the boats. In the background are my shops. The boats are Flying Tako by Kanker Greenacre.

Lighting at Dutch Business Park

This is a photo of the light I was working on for Second Life. All the lighting effects are added by the light on the wall.

My light throws a nice soft, circular light onto the wall and floors with good light inside the building and little going outside.

The light starts to come on as dusk approaches so you can enjoy the wonderful Second Life lighting effects without them being drowned out. By the time the sun sets and darkness falls the light is fully on.

This light will be available at my stores in Dutch Business Park and in Tammora. Search for my shop name "Furnish IT" or look in my profile for links.

Shops, names and business

As part of Dutch Business park I am building shops selling essentials for business within the park and outside. This photo shows my office furniture shop on top and the mens clothing shop below that and out of sight under the mens shop is the womens shop.

As always I have been struggling with names. Currently my furniture shop is called Furnish IT, but I want a strong name that would be suitable for all three shops. At first I came up with the name 'identity' as a robust name showing my designs were distinctive but the word has too many negative meanings for people. The name 'identity' is not good for searchs as Google gives hundreds of hits even when adding "Second Life" to the search. The search for a name continues.

I must seem very brash starting three shops when three weeks ago I had no stock and no designs. I started with the furniture and made ten different lines and 40 different colours, designs and colours. I still have a few pieces to make, but the basics are all done.

I will be doing mens suits, shirts and ties next and hope to have my first ones ready in a couple of days.

Having furniture, office essentials, clothing and other avatar essentials is all part of the business strategy for Dutch Business Parks.

Reception area - Dutch Business Park

This is my first building for Dutch Business Park. The design brief is to be very modern although my style drifts into a more homely style. I like my textures to be a bit grunged up, scratched, abused and interesting. I held back and kept the look fresh and unabused.

The main textures are made in TextureMaker. The planking is from a royalty free wood texture that I manipulated in Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks. In Photoshop I took the contrast down using a high-pass filter (see http://www.taunt.com), then adjusted contrast, hue and brightness and finally blurred the image. In Fireworks I added thin parrallel rectangles for the planking, then embossed them to make planks. The glass uses one of my multi-use textures; gray background, noise, blur using a gausian filter, then exported to SL, coloured black and made transparent (transparency 40 to 60%). The aluminium is a light gray background with noise and motion blur. In SL I added a low amount of reflection.

In the future hope to show how I processed the textures.

The garden is bought from The Heart Garden Center.