Greetings Cards-Test Prints

I printed out the colours and designs
that I liked and that worked the best to 
see how the dimensions worked.
Some need to be scaled up or down 
but only slightly, I am then going
to go down to print and get them 
printed onto mount board as that is
one of the materials I am going to try 
making the cards from.

Greetings Cards-Colour Test Prints

I printed off my designs in the different colours and variations I had

been playing around with on illustrator.

Once I had printed it was clearer which ones worked better than others,

I also asked some of my peers which colours they thought worked

well with which designs.

I am now going to print out the chosen designs to actual size to see

how they scale up and see if any changes need to be made.

Natalie Hughes

Natalie Hughes is a freelance illustrator, she designs greetings cards
and children's illustrations.
She focuses a lot on pattern design and animals which are both things
I am looking at in my own design work during my FMP project.
A lot of her work is character based, a lot of time giving human
features to inanimate objects, which is something that comes
up a lot in design for children. 

Alien Illustrations

I didn't like the alien drawings I had
done so I did some more versions,
I decided to go with this one, I tried
to keep it to a similar style as the dinosaur
drawing I had also done to keep some
consistency.

Heals Wallpaper

http://www.heals.co.uk/wallpaper/

Lydia Shirreff

I came across Lydia Kasumi Shirreff, he work looks at paper craft
and construction within design.
She enjoying making which is something I love to do and still try and
incorporate into my work, even if it is just in the early stages of
designing.
I want to look at paper craft more during my FMP and how something 
becomes 3D and interactive, I want to take this idea on in my designs
for children.
http://lydiakasumi.com/

Greetings Cards-Design 4, Dinosaur

I wasn't liking how the aliens were turning out so I left them for

a while and moved onto dinosaurs, this card will be a bit different

and will open up all the way so the dinosaur illustration will need to be printed

on the inside and outside of the material used for the main part of the body.

I have done three different illustrations, I don't know which one to use yet

but I do find these guys quite endearing! 

Honeycomb Fold Test

I quickly tested out what the honeycomb
fold would look like as the fairies skirt
and it looks like it is going to work well.
I have the lazer cutter booked on Thursday
as well as the vinyl printer so I should
have a functioning mock up by the end
of the week if all goes to plan.

Honeycomb Paper has Arrived!

I ordered some already made up honeycomb
paper balls after attempting to make them myself.
I have just ordered a few to see if they work 
with my design idea, they are a perfect size,
so hopefully it should all come together.

As well as ordering the ball shaped folds
I have also ordered some of the honeycomb paper in a sheet. 
I am hoping this means I will 
be able to cut my own shapes from it for
some of my designs but I am not too sure if
this is going to work yet...

Crit Feedback

This is the feedback from the group
discussion we had in our design context 
crit with Fred.
It was a really useful crit and has really
made me think about what I am looking at
within my research and the kind of things I
want to explore to make my final outcome 
interesting and challenge already existing
ideas about design.

Design Context Crit

We have a design context crit this afternoon, looking at the research we

have done so far in relation to our briefs and how we have begun to organise it.

I have made these design boards with images covering the different areas I 

am looking at across my briefs. I also have some books to take in which also 

highlight the type of work I am looking at.

I will post feedback up here after the crit.

Greetings Cards- Design 3, Alien

Just Draw Luke Packs

We got the Just Draw Luke name and Twitter hash tag printed onto 

clear vinyl and stuck them onto plain white rubbers to go with 

the pencils inside the Just Draw Luke mail out packs.

These are the mail out tubes we are sending out to studios, the each contain a Just Draw Luke

pencil and rubber, as well as the photo of luke and paper to draw him on.

It will also include a stamp addressed envelope so it will be easy for people

to send their drawings back to us.

There is also the Just Draw Luke logo of the pencil stuck on the outside and there will 

also be an address label.

Just Draw Luke Mail Outs

Niall designed the mail outs that we are going to send out to design

studios for the Just Draw Luke project.

One side is the picture of Luke that we want people to draw and 

the other sheet is a box that people can use to draw their

picture of Luke and send back to us!

Cup Cake Design Development

I started to look at colour with the cupcake design, after playing around with different

colours for a while I decided to use the same colour palette as the fairies to keep 

consistency.

I have also decided that the tops will be the bit that is made from honeycomb so 

I have mocked up what the bases would be like before the honeycomb fold 

is attached, I am going to test out printing on mount board and on vinyl that 

will be stuck on wood.

Greetings Cards- Design 2, Cupcake

 The second greetings card design for girls
is going to be a cupcake, I am yet to decide which 
bit will open up with the honeycomb fold, it will 
either be the cupcake case or the top part with 
the icing on. I am leaning more towards the base
but I am going to do some more design development
and see what works out better.
I am going to put these illustrations into Illustrator
to play around with layout and colour.

Fairy Illustrations

I drew some basic outlines for the fairy card, I didn't
want to make it too complicated because when the
cards are cut out I want them to be stable and free 
standing so I needed a solid shape to work with.
I then took them into Illustrator and started adding 
colour to the designs.

I have worked with mainly different pastel colours, for fairies this seemed
to be the best colour palate, I am now going to look at how I am going to print 
them. I am going to try printing onto card and also onto vinyl that would be
stuck onto wood.

Greetings Cards- Design 1, Fairy

The first design that I have developed for a girls
greeting card is a fairy, looking at the skirt opening up
into the honeycomb fold.
I found an old fairy activity book at home which I 
have used as a basis for my illustrations. 

I have started to draw possible outlines
for the fairies wings and body, I am then going to take some of these forward
to build up the image of a fairy which
I will then digitally mock up and 
play around with colour and
then move onto print processes.

This is a basic plan of how the card will be made
up and possible ways it will be printed and 
assembled. 

Fish Tank Submission

This is my final mocked up version of my illustration for the Fish Tank 
brief set by Music, they wanted to see the design mocked up in the
space to get an idea of how it will look.
This is e-mail I sent supporting my entry,

Hi Music,

This is my entry for the Fish Tank, my entry is based on the song Applesauce by Animal Collective,

Unfortunately I don't have an MP3 to send but you can listen to the song on YouTube here

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbtYzjLuMo

The song is upbeat and always puts me in the best mood when I listen to it, its lyrics

just praise the wonders of fruit and the abundance of fruit, and just generally how go it is.

So having all this brightly coloured fruit around the studio will hopefully cheer people up like

the song and maybe promote some healthy eating as well! 

I propose that the illustrations will be printed on vinyl and stuck onto the glass in

the style shown on the visualisations of the space I have attached.

And it has been said that an apple a day keeps the doctor away!

Thank You,

Francesca Pecqueur

frannyp.com

The deadline is Feb the 22nd, so I will see what happens!

Making A Honeycomb Fold

I attempted to make my own honeycomb fold out shape, I managed

to make one but it doesn't look the best, I think if I took my time over it

I could create a much better one. however it is rather time consuming

so if I was to go forward with this design idea I think I would

order already made ones to use with my designs.

Paper Folding-Open Out Shapes

After developing possible idead for my greetings cards I want to 

work with the idea of the card opening up to create a shape or character,

I like these honeycomb shapes make from crepe paper, I am looking

into making them myself or possibly ordering them if they come

in the sizes I would want.

I am now going to try make some of these myself and also 

start designing posibilites of how I could use these in designs. 

Greetings Cards-Idea Devlopment

I have brainstormed possible outcomes
for the greetings card brief, looking at 
different folds, pop ups and interactive
designs.
I have also looked over possible different
themes that I could explore in my designs, 
looking at gender specific ideas and also 
unisex ideas.

20 Birthday Cards to Colour

Usborne Children's Books have made of a book of birthday
cards for children to colour in and give to people, this is a possible
market to look at, instead of making cards to give to children look at the
cards that children could make to give to other people. Also the idea
that you could give a child one of these for their birthday and could come
with colour pencils and the could colour them in themselves, maybe
with stickers as well. 

Growing Graphics

Growing Graphics is a book which looks at graphic design within 
children's products, it covers products from a range of ages, I have manly
focused on the design for the younger children as that is the age range I 
will be focusing on in my design for children briefs.
I have looked at different packaging design which will be useful for 
my Ellas Kitchen brief, also looking at book design and A-Z products
which will be useful for the Penguin brief as well as my own 
A-Z book.

Structural Greetings

Structural Greetings is a book which looks at different ways people have 
communicated in a interactive way, there is a range of formats, including 
pop ups, fold outs, self-constructions and cards that turn into something else,
something useful or something that holds something else. 
There is also a CD with all the nets to make the cards yourself, I could possibly
use these as a basis for some of my own designs.

Patch Pops

These Patchpop cards by Santoro are really great! They come on 
one sheet and no scissors or glue is needed to make they, they all just 
pop out and slot together. They come with an envelope and a place to 
write a message and the receiver builds the card themselves. It is interactive
and becomes something that will be kept. All of the different designs
also have different patterns printed onto them which adds an extra feature
to the designs. I definitely want to get some of these for myself!

http://www.santoro-london.com/shop/greetingcards/patchpops/

Paperchase Greetings Cards

Paperchase have a range of greetings cards, I have focused on their more

interactive cards, ones which pop up, open out or are 3D. My favourite cards 

they do are the animals ones which open up to form the body, made out of 

crepe paper, something like that would be something I would like to design 

for this brief.

http://www.paperchase.co.uk/greeting-cards/icat/greetingcards/

YCN- Greetings Cards

I want to start on my YCN brief as that has a set deadline in March
for entries. I am doing the Greetings UK brief, to link it to the other
briefs that I am doing I am looking at cards designed for children and
how they can be made interactive. This is just an initial brainstorm of
the areas I want to explore in this brief.

Applesauce-Fruit Illustrations

I put all in illustrations into illustrator and started to add colour, I played around with 

different colours and gradients on each of the fruit to get different outcomes.

I then started to look at putting the fruit together, how it would be if it was put

on the fish tank.

I looked at having the honey running through the fruit but I didn't

like where that was going or what it looked like and I thought

it would be too much on the fish tank and there would be no clear space

to see through anymore. I then just looked at the fruit all together,

I am proposing that it would be printed on vinyl stickers and stuck onto

the glass, I am going to print it onto acetate to get the kind of effect that

would produce.

Applesauce-Initial Illustrations

I listened to Applesauce and looked at the lyrics and picked out all the
different fruits that were mentioned and key part of the song that I could
draw on for inspiration for the Fish Tank brief.
I am going to focus on the idea of an abundance of fruit, looking
at the lyric 'I thought fruit was an infinite thing.'
I am going to put my drawings into illustrator and look at adding
colour and how I could lay them out.