SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE

After the crit, I was still a little confused as to where to take the idea, so I decided to brainstorm some possible products with my peers in order to gain some inspiration. As I was looking at unnecessary and necessary items that graphic design students purchase, the most efficient idea seemed to be splitting the costs up into three sections, allowing me to produce three outcomes designed specifically for a particular price range. 

£0 - 5

£5 - 10

£10 +

In order to get a relevant and appropriate list of unnecessary items that art and design students find themselves purchasing, I sent out an e-mail asking for a list of at least 10 products. I could then compare and contrast these answers and find correlations between them.

Graphic Design students

- Can of coke (yes, I pay 20p extra to get it cold) - 70p
- Dinner at bakery 164 because its dead good - £1.90
- Pointless trips to Tesco to buy ribenna - £1
- Smokes £4
- Extra Alcohol when I'm drunk £5-£10
- Paper from the library - I ALWAYS seem to cut it wrong or get wrong paper so I waste money there - 30p - £1
- Bus at weekend to go into or get back from town when i'm being lazy £1

- Shopping online

- Shopping offline

- Food for lunch that i could make myself

- Always buy drinks that I could just sort out at home
- Clothes!!
- Buying random bits of food when i could just do a big shop
- Fineliners because I always lose them

- Alcohol
- Taxis
- Xbox games
- T-shirts
- Bakery
- Bakery 164 sandwiches
- Comics

- Sandwiches
- Alcohol
- Cheeky trips to Tesco for chocolate
- Betting
(I probably waste more money on stuff but I always think that I'm not wasting it)

Photography student

- Silver and gold pens
- Moleskin notebooks... £6
- I spend too much money on apps on my phone (games)
- Takeaways on sunday when can't be bothered to cook/too hungover too
- Chocolate
- American Apparel clothing
- Food at lunch when I could just bring packed lunch orI bring in packed lunch and don't eat it, I buy food instead

Fashion student

- Buying black fineliners when I leave mine at home
- TRACING PAPER!!!!
- Chips at the top of the road after nights out
- Chips at the top of the road on nights in
- Clothes from primark which are ugly and wear once then realise they are ugly
- Fabric dyes (then realise you can get them free from uni)
- Train tickets to random uni towns when we get bored/depressed
- Nandos (I wouldn't call it a waste but some might)
- Pizza express (AGAIN I wouldn't call it a waste but some might)

From these results, it is obvious to see what people generally waste their money on - alcohol, sandwiches, transport, clothes, snacks and eating out. I will therefore categorise these into the price ranges and use these as the main basis of my work.