Crit's

Have more than one idea to explore! 

The main thing's to think about is to:

• Explore
• Packaging
• Concepts 
• Advertising Strategies 

After my crit my ideas were liked the idea of limited edition, one off pieces and hand crafts were liked. So I think I'm going to focus on the furniture/interior and look more closely at the idea of dolls. 

Furniture/Interior

Look into what to do for packaging like cardboard boxes, bags, cellophane bags/wrap to think how to wrap certain objects like sofa's, chairs, mirrors etc.

Have an idea what type of furniture?

Dolls

I could look into more about barbie's and other dolls like rag dolls or china dolls and see how the particular doll fits in with the collection's of Mulberry as this could be a link to the store. 

This could then lead on to how I can package the dolls which could be simpler then the furniture/interior idea.

18th crit

After speaking today with the doll idea I should look more away from the brand with this idea and that I maybe should focus more on the furniture idea. But for the dolls idea I could look at dolls houses and the furniture as people collect these and they can be seen as a timeless classic. This then could lead on to have dolls with teddy products?

With the furniture idea, talking to some of the class helped me find a soft of connection such as Mulberry logo has a tree included into it so the idea of wood furniture is a good idea. Along with carrying on with leather sofa's, chairs etc as there are classic pieces. I do think this is a good idea to keep away from the existing products.

• look at doll house furniture
• old fashion teddys
• look again at wooden furniture that is expensive
• maybe think of a new idea?   

Ollie Wenman 

Works at 'Hurricane' which is an advertising and packaging graphics studio. He also studied at University of Gloucestershire studying Graphic design.

He has worked on brands such as Beautific and Zico designing the labels etc.

He showed us how to make things have a 3D effect on Illustrator and how to do the same on photoshop but a bit more simpler. You can also collect texture of things from google like metal, wood, fabric etc. We also were told shadows help create the appearance of what an object should look like such as a box and its lid.

This will be a lot easier to visualise my ideas rather than hand making them or taking photograph's especially if your not very good at taking photo's.