Strand Jewelry for Stumblebum

We’re very excited to be part of Stumblebum! For this round we have our Strand Jewelry in four insane color combinations: crazed cerulean, manic maize, lunatic lime, and psychotic pink. Each intricate non-rigged mesh piece can be re-sized and positioned to fit any size avatar. Necklaces and bracelets are sold in sets and separately.

Features:

1. Non-rigged MESH
2. Re-sizeable
3. Custom textures
4. Baked shadows

Available now at the HANDverk Mainstore. All items are 25% off for the duration of this round of Stumblebum (May 31st).

Culture Shock 2012

Culture Shock is still running until May 26th, so there is still some time to swing on by and do some shopping.

As a reminder, we have two items that donate to the event’s chosen charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Sales of the Bauhaus Face Jewelry Set and the Red Wassily Jewelry Set will donate 50 and 100 percent, respectively. Additionally, all the items we have in our booth are 25% off until the end of the event (they will be available in our stores and on the marketplace after at full price).

[HANDverk] Bauhaus Face Jewelry

Available as earrings, necklaces, and sets.

Inspired by the Bauhaus Logo created in 1922 by Oskar Schlemmer, this unique set contains several three dimensional renditions of the recognizable logo. This intricate set comes with drop earrings and a wrap necklace, which are sold together or as separates.

Features:

1. Non-rigged MESH
2. Custom textures
3. Baked shadows
4. God and silver versions included

Currently available at Culture Shock.

[HANDverk] Wassily Jewelry

Available as earrings, necklaces, rings and sets.

Our Wassily Jewelry is inspired by the chair of the same name, incorporating metal tubes with straps of leather between. Each piece is sold separately, or in sets, with gold and silver versions. Available in red and black.

Features:

1. Non-rigged MESH
2. Custom textures
3. Baked shadows
4. God and silver versions included

Currently available at Culture Shock.

Available as earrings, necklaces, rings and sets.

[HANDverk] Bauhaus Decor Set

Our Bauhaus Decor Set is a combination of Bauhaus item replicas and Bauhaus inspired pieces. Continuing with the modernist tradition, each piece is constructed out of glass and/or chrome.

Features:

1. MESH
2. 15 prim equivalents
3. Includes lamp, table and tea set.

Currently available at Culture Shock.

[HANDverk] Wassily Chair

Our Wassily Chair is a carefully constructed mesh replica of the famous leather and chrome chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1923 while at the Bauhaus. With meticulously rendered lighting and shadows, this chair projects visual and aesthetic depth, no matter your graphics settings

In addition, this handsome chair can seat up to two avatars simultaneously.

Features:

1. MESH
2. 8 prim equivalents
3. 7 male sits
4. 7 female sits
5. 5 couple sits

Currently available at Culture Shock.

Mesh build for [HANDverk] booth

This is Tobias here, long-lurking companion of the prolific Daph that has good-naturedly been semi-ghostwriting my entries for all too long now. It is time that I stepped up my game and contributed to this awesome blog that Daphne has set up and maintained. Hopefully this will be the first of many posts, as I have long-intended to do some blogging and I have a store of ideas that I have accumulated.

Enough of the chit-chat, on to business! I would like to tell you a little about the [HANDverk] booth that I designed and built very recently for Culture Shock 2012. We are excited about it because it is a foray into Second Life© building that I am more than qualified and to do, but have been looking for the right opportunity to start. Daph has been encouraging me for a long time to throw my hat into the Second Life© build-creation-ring and now with the full-fledged arrival of !MESH! on the grid I have no reason to jump in with both feet. First though, one little dirty secret about my “other life”. Motions the reader closer and whispers, “I am a real-in-the-flesh designer/architect.” This will be perhaps my sole confession about that, ahem, other part of my existence.

I have been a power-user of the awesome 3D building app Sketchup almost since its appearance in 2000. Using it for both personal and professional purposes it dragged me into the 3D creation world gently and easily and has become a powerful tool for me. Now I was always eager to take advantage of my skills for Second Life© building, but it never quite meshed (no pun intended) with my needs or workflow. I never quite bought into the sculpty experiment as it always seemed like an awkward work-around to a bigger problem, the problematic prim-based creation mode that was Second Life© content creation. BUT in 2011, mesh arrived on the scene to save us all from that prim-counting-purgatory! I was not deterred by the common conception that “Sketchup was not a good tool for creating mesh” and was determined to make it work. Maya was brought into my workflow, and low and behold, I could create that elusive .dae file for import to Second Life©. With a little bit of massaging and coercion, I’m now able to bring in a low-prim Sketchup model into Second Life© as a low-prim mesh object with texture mapping included! /me gestures with a flick of the hand to the man behind the curtain, “First slide please!”

The mesh shell comes in-world as only four prim equivalents, but with the baked lighting and textures packs a lot of punch! The curved panels contain the vendors for Daph’s and my exclusive creations for the event, for which our theme was the Bauhaus.

For my exclusive Culture Shock Bauhaus items I created a few that were based on actual objects created by the Bauhaus, and a few that were inspired by the same. The “Wassily Chair” was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1923, The “Tea Infuser MT 49″ and the accompanying “Sugar Basin” was designed by Marianne Brandt about 1924. The Floor Lamp was designed by Gyula Pap in 1923. All of these items were not commercially produced at the time of the Bauhaus, but were produced as replicas later, a testament to the forward thinking that was typical of the Bauhaus.

The remaining items in my little collection were designed by myself as companions to their inspirational Bauhaus objects to create a cohesive set for the event. I hope you will visit our little booth at Culture Shock 2012 starting on May 4 to see Daphne’s and my first entry into the events of Second Life!

FaMESHed Launch

Last night was the FaMESHed grand opening, which was quite exciting unto itself. Tobias and myself haven’t really been in any events, so it was very nice of Cracked and Vanity to invite us.

There is a ton of great stuff, and a bunch of top designers. So if you love mesh, it’s an event not to be missed. New stuff will cycle in on the first of each month, the last week of the month it will be closed.

So what do we have for our customers? Jewelry and furnishings, handmade in whatever painstaking programs of choice we use (Tobias uses Sketchup and Maya while I use ZBrush and Maya).

FaMESHed will run until May 21st, then a new round will open the first of June.

Available in gold, silver, and steel.

[HANDverk] Fan Jewelry

Our Fan Jewelry is big and bold, but comprised of many small, irregular parts. Created to look handmade, these pieces give any outfit some personal flair.

Each piece can be purchased separately or sets. Since the mesh is unrigged, it can be edited and re-sized to fit your avatar.

Note that mesh items do require the use of a mesh enabled viewer to see them.

Features:

1. Non-rigged MESH
2. Custom textures
3. Baked shadows
4. Black and brown leather laces included

This jewelry set can be purchased exclusively at FaMESHed until May 21st.

Available in gold, silver, and steel.

Available in gold, silver, and steel.

Available in gold, silver, and steel.

[HANDverk] Marshmallow Sofa

Our Marshmallow Sofa is another immaculately detailed mesh piece by Tobias. It comes with several singles and couples sitting animations, no more sitting stoically by one’s self on either end. This fun sofa is only 10 prim equivalents.

Note that mesh items do require the use of a mesh enabled viewer to see them.

Features:

1. MESH
2. 10 prim equivalents
3. 11 male sits
4. 11 female sits
5. 7 couple sits

Currently only available at FaMESHed.