Final Show

Images from my final exhibition.

Gift Bags

Final Ceramics

Mug

Pasta bowl

Small plate

Big plate

Notebooks

Tshirt

Stationery Products

Keyrings




School bean stationery

Products (with a chance to buy)

As i had already found out how my designs would look on real objects using Illustrator, i wanted to make some for real. Not only for my show but also because i think that i could sell them afterwards as my designs are quite commercial. So if you want any of my designs on a product, get in contact and i will see what i can do.

Thermos flask with cooking bean repeat

Fridge magnet with Cooking bean

Designs in Context ... Stationery...

Designs in Context ... Bedding ...

Designs in Context ... Tableware ...

Gift bags

As i am designing for the card market, i wanted to also make my own gift bags for the show. These are the three designs that i am going to use and the colour ribbon i will use.

Stationery

As i wanted to see how my designs would look in context, i used Illustrator to show how they could be displayed. I began by drawing the products with the pen tool and added my designs then used clipping masks. I think that these look good and fit the idea which i am trying to put across, so i would like to make some actual products like this for my final show.

Coordinating designs

Again i felt that i still had plenty of time left so i went back to my bean collection and decided to add some coordinating designs. I was going to do another mini collection but i thought that this would be the best use of my time, not only does it broaden out my collection but i also already had the motifs, so i wasn't wasting time drawing. The theme for this design was 'School', i think that it would look good on a series of stationery products as school is most likely where it will be used, especially as my target market is that age.

A few added extras.

I sent my cards off to be printed with moo.com because i wanted them to have a professional finish.I am happy with how they look (even though i did think they were going to be on a gloss paper). As all my work is quite fun and quirky i felt that i needed something extra to add to the cards, so i went back and stuck googley eyes onto some of them. This definitely was a good idea and finishes them off nicely.

Cards

I already had the motifs for the cards so they were fairly easy to put together. I took elements and colours from the wraps so that they would go together as a set. Using Illustrator i made them look like cards so you can see how they look in context.

Letters Wrap

I thought the single phrases could be used for cards an i thought that if i repeated them in rows it could be used for wrapping paper. I tried to keep the phrases in straight lines so that it could easily be read and i made sure that it wasn't directly below because some didn't fit on the page so you wouldn't have been able to read it all. The last repeat i did was this jumbled one which uses lots of different letters. It made me think that you could make the cards/wrap more personal by choosing what was written, then you could have 'Happy Birthday Sam' or something.

Letters Collection

As i have done my wraps for all 3 collections i feel as though i am going to have lots of time left at the end. I know i have my cards and extra bits to do, but seeing as the deadline is the 2nd of June i feel that it is easily achievable to do this. So i have gone back to my last project of cakes and sweets and chose to look at the candy ABC letters. I thought that by using these i could make them into a new type.

So i bought a big bag of the sweets, luckily i got at least one of each letter and i photographed them and cut them out. Once i had done this i tried to think of different occasions in which you would send a card.

These are a few that i came up with. I tried to make them fit the celebration so the 'Good Luck' has 4-leafed clovers and horseshoes.

Final Splats

These are a few of my final designs from my splat collection. I chose not to give them coloured backgrounds because i felt that it took away from the images and they didn't stand out as much. I really like the top one as the splats really look as though they have their own character. Again i think that they work well for gift wrap (especially when you see them on glossy paper to the standard wrap size of 50cm x 70cm).