Friday, September 3, 2010

The Two Artists

As an entrepreneur for this course, I would appoint artists from our college to design products with their respective styles and ideas. These artists will further be paid a royalty based on the sales of these products. The total manufacturing cost would include the cost of paper, printing, cutting and packaging.
The two artists working along with me are sibya Rosalyn and shaivalini Kumar from Srishti School of art and design, Bangalore.
Sibya has an interest in, almost Mexican looking style of making skulls whereas Shaivalini has a touch of Japanese vector art in her work and creates the best with it.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Work Progress

Aiming at small and affordable products, I jotted down a few ideas of what I could make. I came to many conclusions and selected the ones which would suit best and easily manufactured.
Some of the ideas I came up with were bookmarks, posters, mouse pads, badges, fridge magnets etc.I then sniffed through some books to get more ideas that I could use for my products.

Monday, August 16, 2010

The client brief

Design requirements of the company.
The company being in its initial form requires a brochure/catalogue depicting the lifestyle products it is wishing to sell.

The company's main focus being the upliftment of the crafts of the local population of Honnavar and bringing their work into the urban market. It requires a more sensitive outlook for it is not an all commercial product range hence the ethnicity and cultural value of the people of Honnavar have to be safeguarded.

It should also showcase their craftsmanship and need based skills which intern reflects in the products they make.

Cost of production which include printing and paper cost can be subjected to change and edits should be made later if and when the company economizes on its brochure.
The size factors remains that they should fit on a table top under a paper weight.
Therefore depend on the designer’s preferences and ergonomics of the system setup.

The brand created needs to click with a varied urban mid-class market looking forhandmade home products with antique and rare to find.