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happy new year from df designs

2009-01-01T17:36:00.000-08:00

It's been a challenging year for df designs. Having had to move out of ENVY really affected business not to mention my motivation to create.

I have managed to do odd bits of designing in 2008. I also started an online/inworld magazine called TS II that never got to launch. The online site was up and I wanted the inworld edition to coincide with Valentines day. *sigh*

I'm actually wondering if I could still pull it off and Launch the inworld Mag for Valentine's 2009! Hmmmm....

I actually dabbled into car design. As for the engine (scripting) of it, I still have not found a script that could mobilize the 121 prim sports car. Perhaps I'll have better luck in 2009.

Despite the economic crisis that has plagued the RL world, SL is still rich in resources and inspiration. That is why I am going to make every effort in putting back the time and energy into df designs and infusing it with new vitality by coming up with a Spring Edition Catalog.

More updates soon.

I just want to wish everyone a very Prosperous New Year!

Love,
Ysabel.

Designs on Hold but Creativity on the Rise

2008-02-25T11:00:00.000-08:00

df :: designs has taken a sabbatical yet again. (As if you did not notice)

Although the design team (which is only me) has been temporarily uncommissioned, I am still accepting offers for commissioned work.

The creativity department, however has been on the rise in Real Life. Hence, a lot of my time has been spent fostering this inspirational source.

I still maintain a few inworld projects that I have chosen to remain 'low keyed' about. If you need to contact me, you can do so inworld (however, I am not often there).

You can also email me at ysabel.isabella@yahoo.com.

Love,
Ysabel

Getting out of Procrastinating ..

2007-08-11T12:53:00.000-07:00

Summer is almost gone and I still have not published the DF Catalogue: Creating a Beautiful Life. Ah ..... bugger nuts.

Off to Japan on Business

2007-08-03T17:41:00.000-07:00

I have had to put aside some of the df designprojects for now. I was commissioned by an emerging Japanese Company that has entered Second Life to create commercial builds for them. This is too exciting! My first love has always been architecture and it was *this* that I started out, as a path for me in Second Life.

Aside from my Freelance Photography, it was building that really satisfied my creativity and it is this that I am now devoting my time to.

I will of course, still create design pieces for spaces but as it is, the df studio and gallery will remain self sufficient.

I am also working on a Real Life book that will be first showcased online, "Second Life meets Real Life: The Fim & Ysabel Story.

I can always be reached by email: ysabel.isabella@yahoo.com

Summer. Yay.

2007-06-29T10:32:00.000-07:00

Enthusiasm hasn't been my cup of tea lately. I can be busy .. or not. I choose the 'not'. I was waiting for the month of June to pass - so that I could gear up for July. July is only a day away - in other parts of the world, and I only want that to pass too. I need to think of the 4th Collective Project. So many ideas .. but none wanting to come out to play.

Call it a chemical imbalance. Call it lack of .... Call it whatever, but right now things are, and I am going to invent this - "limbo blah".

Summer. Yay.

Wanted: Writers, Artists, Ads ...

2007-06-04T02:05:00.000-07:00

I would not normally do this, but seeing as I am also involved with 1st TOUCH Magazine, I feel it is my duty to put in a PLUG.

You can obtain a copy of the 1st TOUCH Spring Edition at the vendor located at the front of the df design studio at [envy].

Summer Projects 2007

2007-06-03T06:16:00.000-07:00

I figure, if I write them down then they will get done. *smiles*

I am seriously thinking of re-doing the df design catalog - a pre-fall issue perhaps, just to get the ball rolling.

I need to be doing something creative that is just from 'me' or else I tend to loose interest really fast.

Also, the 1st TOUCH Magazine Team will be working on the Summer Edition and this no doubt will take up lots of time and energy.

And of course, new designs have been circling in my head .. and I just need to make the time to get the prims rezzed and start creating again.

This will be a busy summer with other RL and SL projects on the agenda and I hope I can keep up with all of them.

As it is, I am feeling much at home here in Frankfurt, Germany. Living with my SL partner Fim Fischer in RL has been one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself. For more background on this story you can log onto my Photo Journalist Blog.

Design Sabbatical

2007-05-28T04:01:00.000-07:00

Every now and then, even a designer needs to take a break to re-group, re-think and re-set just what it is that sits at her core of creativity. Where will my next inspiration come from and more importantly, when will the drive to create again start up?

I have been actually toggling at the thought of re-doing the df design catalog and to expand its contents and topics to include lifestyle.

We are all certainly designers of our own right. Each designing and creating or for some like me, re-creating a life - style, space and meaning, to our 'person'. That which best expresses the 'essence' of who we are.

I would like to explore this idea and add concepts that seem to be flittering about in my head for so long - that simply have been waiting for a time and place to land.

AH! The light bulb has once again been turned on - and a halogen one at that.

May my 'light of creativity' continue to shine and shed its' light waves on my path -hopefully to continue my 'work' both inworld and in RL.

namaste

Full Scale Showroom

2007-04-27T13:28:00.001-07:00

Growing by leaps and bounds!

df design has newly acquired a full scale model home where all pieces can now be viewed, inspected and tried out, in the comfort of a beautiful and quiet setting on Exquisite.Now you can browse thru leisurely, as you decide on the right pieces to take home with you, for that special space.

Information on purchasing the model home is also available. IM Ysabel Isabella in-world or email : ysabel.isabella@yahoo.com

df design : offering custom one-of-a-kind creations or
rl replications of your favourite must have's.

This One's For You

2007-04-27T13:28:00.000-07:00

The df design Summer Catalog 2007 features all the design pieces that were specifically created for the [envy] location. But of course I just couldn't stop there. For the past week I have been busy creating more 'relaxing' pieces that can easily fit into any space, even if your style is not modern simplistic.

I am in awe at the time and effort that many product/retail store owners have taken to painstakenly capture photos of their creations, edit them in a graphic software, upload them in-world and then carefully set them up for merchandising. As Yoda would say, "Simply amazed am I."

I only have to rezz my pieces, I don't have to involve photographing models, wearing them. That alone is a feat unto itself.

This site is for you. For those of you that are curious about the creations of df design, in here I will reveal the process of what goes thru my mind when I give birth to a new piece.

It is more than just linking prims together .... it is a careful, deliberate act of choice.