SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE - development

Once I had an idea of all the unnecessary items Graphic Design students spend their money on, I needed to compile together a list of items that are worth the cost, useful and relevant to their course.

Each category was cut down to roughly six items in order to make things more manageable, with both genders taken into consideration.

£0 - 5

Unnecessary

Bus money

Bottled water

Snacks

Cigarettes

Impulse purchases

Bought lunch

Necessary

Berol fine liners

Sharpies

Metal ruler

Scalpel

Bulldog clips

Energy

Teabags

Sandwich stuff

£5 - 10

Unnecessary

Taxi

Takeaway

Make-up

Alcohol

Fabric dyes

Club entry

Necessary

Lunch box

Spray mount

Thermos flask

Printing

Zines

£10+

Unnecessary

American Apparel

T-shirts

Computer games

Eating out

Printer ink cartridges

Magazine subscription

Necessary

Fundamentals of Typography

Visual Research

Microsoft Office

Copic pens

Newspaper club

Yearly planner

Considered formats - working out how the illustrations would fit into the outcome

How this would fit in with the illustrations

I then drew each necessary item by hand, so that they could be scanned in and live traced. The illustrations were to be kept simple, and playful, however, some colour will be used in order to brighten them up and give them a bit of character. Hopefully, this style will appeal to my target audience, whilst also being relevant to the content. I didn't want to over-complciate things too much as I received feedback to keep things simple and to the point.

I used my own items in order to create the illustrations, except Lost zine from Pikaland.com

 Sharpie and Visual Research book

Lunch box and Microsoft Office

 Newspaper Club logo and a yearly planner

Printer

Fundamentals of Typography and 'Lost' zine

Zine and Dextra energy tablets

Loaf of bread with sandwich filler and thermos flask

Spray Mount, metal rule, scalpel, teabag and A2 folder

Coins and bulldog clips

Berol fineliner and bulldog clip

A3 print