Ikea Catalogue Brief - Final Papercut Photographs

Below you can see the final papercuts I created for the IKEA brief. The final images are the bottom two designs and the images directly below are the detail shots of the papercuts.

Stationery Range Brief - Gift/Presentation Box

These images are of my gift box/presentation box for my papercut notebooks and pencil pack. The base of the box has a red paper insert that separates the pencil pack from the notebooks, of which four are held together with a red band of paper. The papercut design on the front of the gift box is one of four designs from my brief, that I felt best represented my concept and theme of geometric/structured stationery. For an added special protective touch, the notebooks are covered with delicate white tissue paper.

Stationery Range Brief - Notebook papercuts

These are my papercut notebook covers, showing the gridded/blank paper within ( Idecided to go for a gridded paper with a blank backing) and these are my final cover designs, using red to create a striking impact and give a bold look. I changed the style of notebook from being perfect bound, to being pamphlet stitched as I thought this would be a great opportunity to include a more tactile element, which the red binding thread did. You can also see my papercut logo that I included so the notebooks will become recognisable as my design. I will also include this on the pencil boxes.

Stationery Range Brief - Gift box cover design

I would like to package my books and pencils in a kind of 'set' or gift box as I feel this would give the stationery set a feeling of something being precious. I would like to incorporate a papercut design from my geometric designs used on the notebook covers, on the front/top of the box and the images directly below are my designs that I considered using for the papercut on the the gift box I would like to create. I designed them digitally to save time cutting and I tried the design with or without text and I think it works better with as it lets you know what is inside, as there is no other writing or information on the box.

Stationery Range Brief - Notepad cover designs

These are my initial ideas for notebooks and notepads. I have included a small papercut section on the front of each cover and my personal logo on the back to keep them recognisable as mrYen designs. I will create these notebooks/notepads as perfect bound books, having separate sheets of paper glued at one end and then having a cover and a supporting board glued on. I will use gridded paper as I feel this is a happy medium between lined and plain, allowing drawing and writing to be done easily.

Stationery Range Brief - Mock Notebooks

Below you can see the wide range of experimental notebooks/notepads. I used the same paper (gridded paper, with a plain back to it) for all the notebooks and experimented with the following binding methods:

3 hole pamphlet stitched
5 hole pamphlet stitched
Japanese stab binding
Perfect binding
Comb binding
3 hole pamphlet stitched with decorative thread
...and a simple elastic band.