First of all..
Sketchblog is being put on hiatus. It has become clear to me now that trying to up an image every Thursday is going to be difficult. I was a bit naive in thinking I could carry on doing what I did, after 60+ hours of my week is taken up by my new job. And in all honesty, I haven’t really been making the time. In fact, I still don’t have a work desk and half my stuff is still packed away in boxes. Like I said though, there’s no excuses. Realistically, it could be another month or two before things resume to normal.
In other news.. I did take a trip down to York a couple of weeks ago. I had the opportunity to meet the client, Karen Waugh, who owns the hostel, as well as the other designers involved in the project, who were very lovely indeed. We were given a tour of the building and also got to choose our rooms to decorate, which was great. Although some rooms only had three walls, the flooring had holes, and there was no ceiling, it was very exciting to stand in a space, which we, the designer, were basically given free reign. Since then I’ve been working on how to get my idea from screen to the walls, and I’m thinking I’ve got less than two weeks to get everything sorted and ready to be installed. I have every intention of being as involved as I can be in the process of making decisions and most definitely want to get my hands dirty, however as a heads up, I have some pre-commitments with work that may clash with the opening of the hostel, expected in late May. But already, I’ve selected colour samples for the walls and have a supplier in mind to reproduce the artwork for wall application, and I’ll be doing what I can to get involved first-hand in York because this project has awesome potential and I want to document the whole project. Expect a photographic post showing the before and after mayhem once the hostel has been opened to the public.
At least this all means it won’t be long before you hear from me again, eh!
