If you like skiing or just enjoy beautiful scenery and fresh air, you might want to go to the well-known little village Chamonix in the French Alps. There are lots of great activities you can do - everything from swimming to skating or of course skiing - The Vall�e Blanche glacier. What happens when you have worked out all day and feel that you want to do something more fun – you get dressed for it!

Today I have designed an outfit for that lovely day in the Alps when you have been skiing all day and just left your hotel and have headed off to the restaurant and bar for the After-Ski.

Got something lighter on and easy to move around in, still cool and swish - a light-grey or off-white as a main colour and a white edge and lining. The hat is – a cowboy and polar-inspired soft hat. White leather boots and a red top to break up and enhance the sports-feeling that one still wants to keep when you are on a sporting holiday like this. This is a winter and spring inspired jacket, trouser, boot, glove, top and hat.

See you out on the slopes and don’t forget to get dressed for the After-Ski.


By the way I have added a Winter princess wallpaper.

Hats can be for protection, religious reasons or fashionable and something you like to have on your head. I myself enjoy everything from classic baseball-caps, beatle caps, cloth caps to the trilby style hat. The baseball-cap I probably like a lot because they often have a symbol or logotype that is clear and dominant - if one feels like standing out in that way. Now, that is not an everyday look. I guess I have a passion for a lot of different styles of head-ware. I’ll get back to more of that in the future.

I designed a spring fashion kind of design a while back. This is taking it a little bit further - same colour-scheme and feeling to suit the “YO – Tokyo” line. Giving you some more stuff to see from the clothing line - a hat inspired by the Japanese flag – white and red. The circle-shaped hat, or maybe even slightly elliptical, is just like the red sun (dot) in the flag. The red is meant to be silk and with a highly glossy feeling. The top of the hat in a white smooth but starched tight-weaved cloth. A blouse in the same material – maybe not so much starch in it so it is possible to wear. Still it has to be a hard and crisp look. This blouse should have the same lining as the hat. A discreet cut in front kept together with a band sewn across - still a sleek Asian feel to it - inspired by the old Bruce Lee movies I guess.

An accessory necessary for a great outfit could be the hat - worn by the right person to the right style of clothing. I’m giving you a feel for some more of the YOtokyo line. I think it’s slightly inspired by Tokyo and Japan. This time I have made a tighter hat with a cocoon look. It should still stay within the colour scheme as before. This time the red parts of the hat could be more shiny or blank. Maybe even plastic - like a red screen coming from under the top of the hat.

This hat also comes down and round the neck – so if putting it on, you would almost put it over your head like a warrior-helmet. The white surrounding part is stiff and stands by itself. The two red blocks help to enhance the red coming from under the top of the hat. The strict ”V” shape compensates the “roundish” egg-shape from the top. It catches and holds the egg so to speak.

I have spent a weekend in Barcelona and got lots of new inspiration and ideas - just waiting to get out on paper and on the net – on Wohill of course, so I think it is time for me to get started on my next design...

The other day my partner and very good friend Nic Waller got the honour to beta test a new webpage starting up any day now. It has several features and possibilities. One of them was informing you where there is good sushi… Or maybe just sushi - depending on the review of course. But according to Nic this was a good way to use maps and easily find the right location.

I have been in on the Asian feeling before with the “empire 23” – design. This time it´s more of a distinct Japanese look.
So we took a look the other afternoon and realised that it maybe needed some brushing up on the logotype – which Nic mentioned for the inventor of sushikartan.se. He had already put someone to work on this issue. A day or so has gone by and I’ve been thinking a bit about the logo even though I don’t think the other designer will fail in his task. You know - just getting that itching feeling in your drawing-board saying: “Get it down on paper”. So I started out with some of the basic things that this website stands for - one of course is sushi – from Japan - also maps showing where these places are and how the majority of people actually do eat sushi. Even people from this part of the hemisphere – they eat with chopsticks.

So I have placed the chopsticks in a map pattern - like something you see from a bird’s-eye view – from above - making it look like buildings on a map. The chopsticks have kept their own shape to enhance their feeling – but still making it look like streets. The Japanese calligraphy is also a feeling I try to get into the symbol too by laying them like this. The red dot symbolizes where the restaurant is placed or situated – and of course symbolises the Japanese flag. To tie up the last knot I gave the ”i” a red dot too – just in case the text part ever has to stand by itself - it should resemble the logotype / symbol. To make things clear: sushikartan = sushi-map.

Good luck with your new project – sushikartan.se.