Project Rational
What do you want to achieve?
I plan on producing my own illustrated range of
products. This will include:
- - Soft
plush toys
- - T-shirts
- - Stickers
- - Tote
bags
- - Note
Book
However, taking into consideration the amount of
time we have and juggling with other projects as well I am aware that I might not
be able to produce everything on the list. My main focus will be making the
toys.
What do you want to achieve?
I always want to learn something new and I feel
that while I am here at uni this is the time to take opportunities and
experiment. Therefore, I want to create a set of toys as I have never tried
doing this before. I intend to create 5 characters that will be put across a
number of products. In order to be able to achieve this I need to not make my
characters too complicated.
What do you want to learn from doing it?
- I would like this brief to help me make my work
become more professional and hopefully make something worth selling.
- I would like to gain an understanding on how I
would market my own product range.
- Have awareness and gain knowledge on where my work
would exist in the world and too see it in context.
- To gain a better understanding on what’s popular
and sells and the reason why.
- How to create successful characters. I shall find
this out by getting opinions from other people both in and out of the creative
world.
Themes/Subjects
General Themes
At
the moment I have gone down the route of pets. This could change as I explore
it more. However, I think that pets is a good strong theme as many people can
relate or most people like animals therefore I think that this could be quite
popular.
Specific Subjects:
- Plush Toys
- Stickers
- Tote Bags
- T-Shirts
- Note Books
- Character Design
- Product Design
- Research into todays market
- Contextual Research
Audience/Contexts:
- 14-24 year old
- Teens/young adults
- Women/Girls
Production/Distribution methods:
I
will have a range of production methods. Number one will be the use of sewing
machines and hand stitching to create my toys. Then when making T-shirts and
tote bags I will screen print to create them. To make stickers I will need to
have a drawn version, which I would then put onto Photoshop to refine and then
digitally printed into stickers. In addition when making a notebook this could
also be digitally printed then hand bound.
Illustrators/Designers/Studios:
- A large influence will be the range of Ugly
Dolls created by David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim.
- Because I want to keep my characters quite
simple this will limit the amount of colours that I will be using so will need
to stick to a limited colour palette which will help me develop on my skills in
working with colour.
- Screen printing skills
- Character development and exploration.
- Using sewing machines
- Hand sewing
- Working with fabric
- Applying my illustration across a range of
products and working as a set.
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