Progress?

So, we kind of had to restart.  Our group just could not get on the same page with everything, and we seemed a little all over the place.  So we re-vamped, and decided we didn't want to totally ditch all of the research that we had already put into our Mad Men idea.  Because of this, we chose to focus on Jackie O.  We have now come up with: "Jackie O my gosh" -- a line of lipsticks that bring the glamour back into the modern woman.

Jackie O wears pearls, and pillbox hats, and is (in a word) glamorous.  We wanted to emulate that glamour in our design of our building.  We are creating a space that is very personalized.  When a customer walks in to look at our product, he or she can sit down on a puff in the shape of a pillbox hat and stare into the vanity mirror that is before him or her.  The vanity will be personalized to seem like it was Jackie O's own vanity.  It will have gloves strewn across it and her famous sunglasses laying on top.

In the other corners there will be the display of the boxes.  It will be in the same shape as the vanity, only on top of the desk will be shelves covered in pearls and will display the boxes of lipsticks.
Here is the display case:

Then we also have built the check out counter, which follows the same circular pattern that we have going throughout our store:

I must say, I like our idea.  I do.  I am just beyond frustrated because I feel like we are missing something.  Then again, I've been staring at these ideas for far too long to have any realistic grasp on how it functions as a whole. 

I found a quote that reads as follows:

"After finishing a design you take a step back and a little voice pops in your head and says, 'Wow. You should really just quit while you're ahead.' Don't ever listen to that voice. Ever." (found: http://quotesondesign.com/brittany-grabowski/)

I really hope Brittany Grabowski was right when she said that.  Because I am at the point where that little voice is telling me to give up.

But deep down I know that it's just there because I am tired and so looking forward to Thanksgiving break.  Hopefully after a few days break from this project I'll come back to it with a new, more positive attitude.

Then again... if we're being honest here... I know I'm not really going to take a break from it over the few days off that I have.  Oh well