Research
Brief Furniture Designer Ryan Smith has developed This brief was to design and develop the the idea of selling custom made flat pack
brand of ‘Bamdoodle’ as well as design the
furniture. Ryan’s work has a strong D.I.Y
packaging and instructional information that
and hands on ethic. As part of his final year
accompanies the product. The design must
work he is going to batch produce his cube
compliment Ryan’s hands on, playful and
chair with a variety of custom screen printed interactive motif. artwork on it. This will be produced under the name of ‘Bamdoodle’. The research I conducted was on existing furniture makers and brands as well as skateboarding brands as this is the target market for the product.
Bamdoodle 1. Brief and research
The Skube. The product that I will be packaging. It comes flat pack and when a skateboard is in the slot it acts as a chair and also a storage facility.
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Speech bubble idea to convey personality and informality
Folds can move around to indicate flat pack, d.i.y qualities
An anagram of Bamdoodle is Blame Dodo. A mysterious and silly logo.
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Bamdoodle- a mix between bamboozle and doodle. Impossible shape route.
Anagram idea, letters move around to create silly anagrams
Bamdoodle 2. Initial Concepts
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Bamdoodle 3. Brand Identity
Green was chosen because Ryan’s work takes advantage of recycled material and reducing waste. A bright shade was used to avoid eco cliches.
By developing the speech bubble idea the final logo resulted in being an exclamation mark in a speech bubble as well as a capital B
Bamdoodle 4. Photographs
Bamdoodle 5. Web
The web presence of Bamdoodle is a simple BigCartel for the time being, this could be developed when the product range expands.