Collection 100 Products

Wrapping Paper
I created 10 designs of wrapping paper based on the 'Xmas My Arse' theme, with light hearted quotes and phrases I collected for my primary research. My problem from here is how to package them.

Book Manipuation

Starting with an existing completely intact book, we looked into book art and ways people manipulated pages of the book to create intricit designs. Using the theme of the page we were to maipulate our own books to create something appropriate to this.

Because my book was named PC Polly, I came up with a few ideas of how I could create something, but settled on the 999 emergency call theme.

Studio Lighting

We were given an introduction into the photgraphy department where we took a DSLR each. We worked in the studio with lighting and coloured paper to create the lighting affects that we wanted.

Collection 100 Development

After the crit I was given more direction on where to go, specifically identifying my audience as old people, most likely men, allowed me to come up with a more structured idea with a clear focus on who I am aiming it at.

I decided to create a range of products for old men, using the quotes and phrases I have gathered from my research and using the same type/illustrative style.

I looked at old man patterns like gingham and tweed and suitable colours which would be appropriate for them.

For the gift tags and crackers I looked at a few different stocks I could use and found the most appropriate to be this thick brown paper which would allow me to print the black designs on and still be visible.

For the wrapping paper I considered using plain blank paper and getting my design put onto it, but then realised brown parcel paper would be most appropriate as the colour and texture is would suit the audience. I picked ten designs for the wrapping paper which were slightly humorous and light hearted and printed these on to A2 sheets of parcel paper, above is a small A4 mock up of one design.

Collection 100 Negatives of Christmas

100 Negatives of Christmas

From the questionnaires and primary research I had gathered I decided to use quotes and phrases that people has given me to portray 100 negatives or bad things about Christmas.

I intended this to be light hearted and slightly humourous, not to be taken seriously. Looking at Hennie Haworth's work and Eduardo Recife, I wanted to try out using typrography and illustrations possibly in a book.

Some of the quotes and phrases I included in the 100 negatives:

Collection 100 Categories

In the first week back after Christmas we were given the brief to eventually come up with a product along with packaging, promotion or distribution. In order to get to this stage we firstly had to put all of the research we had gathered into 100 different catergories in order to allow us to break up the research and organise it.

Some of my catergories included :

Also, worldwide traditions, things with snow, facts, tales, man-made things, indoor outdoor, positives, negatives and trees.

From this catergorising and more research I figured that a lot of my primary research included people moaning and compliaing about Christmas and how it's changed. Therefore I figured I would focus on the bad side of Christmas, bad presents,consumerism and greed.

Book Binding

In the book binding session we were introduced to three different types of book making, pamphlet stitch, Japanese stitch and concertina. The first two were more basic forms of book binding and concentina involved taking more time and also including a hard back cover like you can see below.