3rd Year's promotional project

In this lecture we were presented with the third year's work where they had to create promotional products for themselves and we were asked to choose some of the promotional products which we believe we would use ourselves. The ones here are the ones I thought I would like to use in the future.

Items one and two - Stickers and Bookmarks

When I was looking at Jak Gerrish's work I really like the looks of his stickers, they work really well especially if you are at a convention because then you hand them out to people to advertise your work. I also really like the bookmarks because since the line of work I want to go in to revolves around sequential illustrations and graphic novels they would be really useful for that target audience considering most avid reader will use bookmarks to know which page they are on. I believe I would apply this to make similar promotional products in my work for conventions next year.

Item three - bags

I was very intrigued with this product because it was a nice simple small bag with a very nicely designed bird at the front. A very good thing about this product is that such a small bag can be used for multiple purposes such as holding small but valuable items whereas with a large bag the items might damage, it could also be used as a sweet bag which could be very handy and finally, coming from a family of birdwatchers, these small bags can be used to hold bird food for their homes or even small notebooks for when they go travelling and it would easily attract them with the design of the bird on the front. I believe I could apply this form of promotional item with my own work in the future by making small bags with images of all types of nature on the front that I could promote through members of the birdwatching committee and the RSPB. 

Item 4 - Puzzles

I was slightly surprised when I saw Ruth Musson's promotional material because I didn't expect a jigsaw to be among them. I instantly was very interested in the product because I am a giant fan of Jigsaw puzzles and I know there is a large market for them. The only criticism I would have of this post would be I am not a fan of the art style and for a Jigsaw there seems to be too little going on even if it is for children. If I would apply this to my own work I would aim for a older target audience, and add more to the puzzle so then it adds a degree of difficulty to it so then its not too easy for anyone but easy enough for children to get.

Item 5 - Sweet Wrappers

I was also surprised when I saw Hannah Evans promotional design because i was not expecting to see sweet wrappers as I went in the room. I really like the design of how she promoted herself by adding all the contact details, a title and a simple illustration with it. I think this definitely works as a promotional item because sweets are really popular and if the consumers get interested with the design they might want to check out her other work. I would like to apply this to my own work next year in my own style and hope it looks as good as it does here