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

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

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. 

  
 

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