My
final piece is ‘Yumenosekai’(‘Dream World’), which
features Japanese Kawaii style. My final piece pays tribute to children’s
imagination, which inspired me to design 3 posters and 9 sewn felt toys. The
posters show three herbivore animals; giraffe, zebra and lama. The collection
has been stimulated by my recent visit to a toyshop in Amsterdam and can function
as a potential product design/branding approach for children’s merchandise.
I felt that I was successful in
using colourful felt because I could make toys that matched the drawings, and
they look and feel soft. Also, the felt is very safe for children, their parents do not need to worry about the children
harming themselves with the toy. I made them to be toys, but also I wanted the
children to use them after they have played with them, so I added the wool hook
to the toys.
I still need to learn a lot of things in terms of Indesign and Photoshop but thorough the final major project I could learn and develop a basis for me to improve my knowledge upon, for me, it was a very big advancement and growth.