I completed a programme with the Prince’s Trust and Marvel all about product design, we were tasked with creating print on demand product concepts for apparel, wall art and a phone accessory, for this project I was given the Black Panther character and worked within the trend setters group.
Hoodie
Wall Art
Popsockets
Comp Shop
To start I complied market research by doing a comp shop, I went to stores like END, Heaven, Palace, Stüssy and the Rolling Stones store to see what’s in trend for high end fashion, in my finding I found that a lot of brands are currently using a flat graphical style, bright saturated colours, textures, heraldry design and typography.
Mood Boards
After the comp shop, I created mood boards inspired by my comp shop research, I also looked at Blackletter type and African art and crests for inspiration.
I pulled a colour pallet from the second mood board and used it for the final product concepts.
Logos
I then explored how the concepts for a Black Panther logo and Marvel logo, it’s here where I developed the sharp and graphical style that would shape the product line stylisation.
Concepts
Using Illustrator and the assets provided by the Disney team I created the concepts for the products, I chose three products zip-up hoodies, wall art and phone pop sockets to design for.
I took into consideration things like zip on the hoodie when designing, and I made sure my designs worked within the limitations of print on demand manufacturing, only designing on the printable area.
Hoodie Concept 1
Hoodie Concept 2
Popsocket Concept 1
Popsocket Concept 2
Wall Art Concept 1
Wall Art Concept 2
Marvel Logo Poster
For the Marvel logo poster, each Marvel logo variation was designed by a young person of the Prince's Trust and put together in this piece by the Disney team.
Here’s some nice shots of me with the products.
