Welcome to our blog. We are a team of Advertisers and Graphic designers from the University of Huddersfield. Our blog is for research and to propose design ideas and events for the current brief "Friends of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park"

We have chose a specific target market which is Singles aged 30-50 years, and we are proposing the idea of a 21st Century Dating Experience at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Friendship Definition

A friendship is a bond between two people who trust, guide, and enjoy each others company. A friend is one who supports and sympathises with a person who they know. With the Yorkshire Sculpture Park a friendship is more a contractual bind from which the target market and the park will both benefit from.


Group Members

Victoria Tennant, Kevin Nicholas, Nicola Stanley, Thomas Holmes

Thursday 11 March 2010

Design: Final Point of sales display

Design: Sketchbook


Final sketch book cover, screen printed design

Design: Final Point of sales



Design: Prouct Prices

Tableware: £35
Phone Covers: £15 each
Posters: £10 each
Birdhouses: £25 each
T-Shirts: £20 each
Cushions: £12 each
Wellies: £20

Design: Point of Sales



First Idea

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Final Design boards

Link: I make my case

Reading computer arts mag and came across this site, I Make My Case.com I looked at what material there cases were made of and the processes they go through to add the artwork to the case. This can give us some ideas of what would be the best materials to use for our products.

I found that the case was made from a material called Lexan, a much stronger,  lighter and more flexible plastic than what other phone cases are made from.

link below:

http://imakemycase.case-mate.com/

Sunday 7 March 2010

Design: Banners




!21st Dating Experience has come to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park!



click here for more information to secure and guarantee your place at the ysp's dating experience






Saturday 6 March 2010

Thursday 4 March 2010

Design: ideas for bird house

Designs for the birdhouse and text on product will read "love is complicated but colourfull"

Design: Poster

This image is to be screen printed as a poster and maybe also as the sketchbook cover.

Design: Tableware

  
  
 

 

Design: Banners



Just a mock up of an advertising Banner........This design needs to link to other work, everything looks differnt the text and the colour scheme ! to lovey !

Research: Point of Sales Display

A point-of-sale display (POS) is a specialized form of sales promotion that is found near, on, or next to a checkout counter (the "point of sale"). They are intended to draw the customers' attention to products, which may be new products, or on special offer, and are also used to promote special events, e.g. seasonal or holiday-time sales. POS displays can include shelf edging, dummy packs, display packs, display stands, mobiles,posters, and banners.



Wednesday 3 March 2010

Design: Ipod cover

Designs for iphone cases/sleves

Tuesday 2 March 2010

Design: Flew the coup tee

Male T shirt design by Thomas 



Research: Online retailing

 



We have chosen to research and use Etsy as part of our online retailing devise as it looks professional, its simple and easy to use and sells similar products to ours. Therefore we feel this would be the perfect online retailer for our products. From researching similar handmade products with similar designs this has helped us to decided upon a price for each of our items!

   




 

  

  

  

  


  




  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

 



  
 


Creating an account is very simple to set up which means we can quickly upload our products and get on with selling them asap. All of our products suit this type of online retailing website and would appeal to the people regularly checking out handmade products on it.
We did research other online retailers such as Folksy and Big Cartel but we just felt that the products sold on these site were targeted more at a younger age range than the one we were targeting (especially Big Cartel).

After researching similar products to ours, we collected varied prices for each:
Cushions = £4.68 to £100
Phone Covers = £5.70 to £45
T-shirts = £6.34 to £500
Tableware = £9.36 to £200
Birdhouse = £2.67 to £40
Posters and prints = £40 to £800
We couldn't find any wellies on Etsy but they were being sold elsewhere on http://www.wellieart.co.uk/
This is a similar website but selling only wellies. Prices range from £20 - £100+. Some well known designers on this website are Cath Kitson and Tamara Henriques who produce fabulous unique designs.