Paperchase // Extended Research

While considering the format which I have already decided:

• Sketchbook
• Pen
• Greetings Cards
• Envelopes
• A stamp (created on laser cutter?) and an ink pad
• Letter Headed Paper (perhaps just blank paper to put in the set?)

 I feel that the range could be stretched over a larger range of products but I am not sure if it is necessary.  With the products above, I feel that I am hitting a more adult target audience and if I were to move onto things like pencils, rubbers and sharpeners it might tarnish the quality effect you get from it being more mature products?  

I decided to look back into my visual research and see what else I can find to reference from.  Mainly to see what people include in letter writing sets.

This illustrator Anna Bond has created a real quality quirky greetings card set:

The box it is all packaged in ties the product together well.  I would like the box I package my stationery set in to open more like a graze box does:

After speaking to Josh about my outcomes so far, he suggested that I draw more characterized octopuses, two of the ideas he suggested:  geek (glasses and a book) and an artist.  I think this is positive feedback and I am willing to draw more as the more I draw, the better the illustrations get and the better my skills using the wacom tablet get.

To better visualize what the outcomes will look like I have done some tester prints, two originally in the mac suite and then I moved on to print some down with James on water colour paper seeing as it is really quiet down there at the minute (might as well take advantage).

.... Photographs of Printed Mock Ups.