Mr nutcase evaluation

Our class had to create a unique design for a phone case. Our phone case design could be related to any topic from sport to gaming. I decided to do a phone case design based on one of my favourite tv shows The Walking Dead. I decided to use the Walking Dead because it is a franchise that is easy to convert to merchandise. The walking Dead franchise has gained millions of pounds from keyring, T shirts, games, trading cards and more but the one thing i noticed that was not done by the Walking Dead was phone cases so i decided to come up with a design for the Walking dead that is simple but effective and embodies the show.

To get inspiration for my design i decided to look at I love Dust which is famed for coming up with many great designs and working with very important clients such as Nike and Adidas. There was a large variety of design types some were colourful and some was just black and white. The main aspect of there designs that inspired me was the way that there logos was designed i thought it always looked nice and fitted well within the design. My target audience is Walking dead fans and people that are 18 and over because of the strong adult themes that the walking dead focuses on as well as the strong violence, gore and horror elements.

I started off my work on the design by writing down 50 words and also putting 20 pictures on to use as inspiration towards my design. I next then drew a selection of sketches which was simple but also a good representation of the Walking Dead. I then came up with my final Walking Dead design which was my own version of the Walking Dead logo. Once i came up with my final design rather than scan the drawing i decided to recreate it accurately on photoshop.To see how my design developed see The Walking Dead phonecase development blog. I went through different development stages changing the text size and how close together they are as well as the actual text style. Once i finished my design i finally uploaded my initial sketches to the blog i first had to scan the sketches onto the computer i did have some difficulties at first as there was not a scanner that worked available eventually i was able to use a scanner and uploaded the sketches onto my blog.

Once i completed my design i then went on to the Mr Nutcase website and imported my design onto the website. Once i imported the design i then placed the design onto the phone case creating my own unique Walking Dead phone case which can be seen below. I did come across some difficulties importing the design as there was no clear instructions on how to do it but after some exploring of the creation suite i finally found out how. Also the logo was very difficult to get to the right size that i wanted and at times photoshop would crash. Also there was no available scanners that worked which was why in the end i had to create it from scratch on photoshop.I did in the end use a scanner to upload my original sketches onto the blog.

Overall i have really enjoyed developing my own phone case design the fact that i could make my own phone case based on one of my favourite tv shows was a very fun experience. There was hardly any difficulties that i had come across overall apart from the importing of the design onto the website.This unit has made me seriously consider designing phone case designs of my own on the mr nutcase website in the future as it would be awesome to have my own custom phone case.