Charity Shopping

26Nov07

Urgh, the cold has got to me this week, am battling on through headaches though.

Today I revisited an older project “Provoke Change”. This project was a collaboration with one of my friends who is an illustrator and together we produced a map of all the charity shops in the town together with a brief guide. We also have a myspace at www.myspace.com/charitybath so you can check out our designs and photography there, although ideally I should get them up on here, as that would make all this a bit more interesting to look at, and talking about design without any visuals is a bit tricky. Anyway, I love love LOVE charity shops. So many high street shops are just dull, tired big wastes of money and you just look the same as everyone else. This project was meant to encourage people to visit charity shops and try something a bit new and different to what they usually would. Anyway, today I spent just getting the map and list of shops absolutely perfect, so that I would be happy to hand it out to the public. I think that our plan is to head into town on Friday and distribute a good amount of these maps (maybe 200) throughout town, and hopefully we’ll get some feedback in the next few weeks from the website and also from the charity shops themselves. It’s pretty exciting! I’m much happier with the designs now, and also it’s taken ages for me and my illustrator to be free at the same time for the distribution,so it’ll be good to get this one out there. I was getting worried that we would never get around to it, but I think we’ve timed it well as the Christmas shopping season is upon us now, and town is a lot busier and full of shoppers.

I imagine that my not-so-secret location has been revealed now!

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