Merchandise idea generation

Mood Board 1

• My chosen merchandise idea is to create a t-shirt design. This is due to the fact that t-shirts with special designs are more commonly bought and looked at. I have generated a mood board of existing t-shirt designs which consist of quotes which refer to being healthy. I have chosen these images to show that being healthy is not just exercise, and that it can be anything which relates keeping your body in shape. All of the images on my mood board tend to have text with images surrounding them, which allows me to notice most of the designs are all similar with how they are placed on the shirt. This gives me inspiration to try a different designs & create a different style of design. Most of the examples I have collected refer to exercise & how it keeps your body healthy.

Mood board 2

• My second mood board reflects on healthy eating instead of the exercise aspect. I’ve generated this type of mood board for variety since being healthy is not just about exercise. I can use images of different pieces of fruit or quotes which can reflect on healthy eating. I can then create different t shirt designs which could collaborate both styles to create designs which reflect on both healthy eating and exercising.

Mind map for Merchandise ideas

• This mind map states what kind of merchandise items I could create for my own pieces of merchandise, as well as bring in new adaptations of existing products. The mind map has multiple options an ideas for what I could do to make my piece of merchandise which ranges from small things to large products. I have also added a methods area to look at potential methods I could use to generate my products. I have made sure that I have included different options so that I have a variety of different things to choose from. This mind map is based on main pieces of merchandise which would be used when creating certain designs (such as on a t shirt or a phone case etc).

• My second mind map has a little bit more insight of what options I need to focus on when creating my merchandise, this means looking at small things such as the content I use like images and text, what information I contain on my merchandise and the colours I use. These are all important to make the product better as it needs to appeal towards my audience so that they will buy the product.