I think I mentioned in a previous post that I have to put together a style guide for licensors. It’s all I can do to just lock myself in my office and experiment and experiment because graphic design has never been my thing. I totally don’t know what I’m doing. So here’s some of the stuff I’ve been playing around with.

Here’s a little pattern I tried out with the Milky silo…

….and an attempt at a kind of star trail to use as a border, maybe…? I tried a few different gradients and I’m still not sure which is best.

And here I’m applying it to a few of the other girls. Click on it to view it bigger. Maybe this would be better if I used the silhouetted girls.

Ergh. This is hard.

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Mother Earth

Was goofing around and did this. Thought it was worth sharing.

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Mother Earth

I spent all day yesterday building these in Illustrator. I’ve never done this sort of thing before– I usually stick to characters… and pencil and paper. But I think they turned out neat.

I never realized how much yellow I use. Hmm. Maybe some day I’ll find a good use for these.

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Mother Earth

So who wants this on a t-shirt??

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Mother Earth

I am making prototypes for messenger bags that will come with the dolls. Inside will be an alternate outfit, a story about your Galaxy Girl, and other goodies like stickers and what not. What’s best, is the messenger bag can double as a little hand purse for you (if you’re a little girl or if you dig cutesy hand purses for some other reason.) So the gimmick with the bag is that they look like the planet the girl is named for. As you can imagine, that may be easy for planets like Staurn and the Moon and maybe even Jupiter which all have very distinguishable marks, but difficult for any other planet that doesn’t automatically conjur a familiar image in your head. Say like, Mercury or Neptune. In any case, here are the first three, designed by my friend Martin Ansolabehere, and I think he did a fantastic job of not only capturing the feel of the planet, but pulling it in to work with the color pallete of the girl!! I transfered his image onto fabric and quilted them. They will be the fronts of the purse.

JUPITER—

VENUS—

PLUTO—

And here is the look of the purse they will eventually be on. This prototype is made of simple muslin. The finals will have coordinating colors to their girl. Martin is designing a spiral galaxy for Milky Way’s purse. I will post it when it’s done.

Over and out,
Mother Earth