Pastel colours.

The stock choice for these books are really nice, all the colours work great with solid black imagery and type, i would like to keep a simple but effective design delivering the message clearly.

Pantone.

These hand made second hand Pantone booklets are a great idea, in terms of getting the swatches easily bound and simple to look through i was thinking of creating a few pull out pieces of paper including swatches in them, that can also be taken out, this way the reader interacts with the publication and thus the paper again.

At the bottom is an example of how the swatches would be held in place along a thin strip of black paper.

Rainbook.

A book perfectly relevant to what we would like to propose, a stationary pack for our design agencies, instead of showing off the pencils it would be the paper we are showcasing, but this creative idea is great inspiration into what our project could be and how we can go about getting the paper noticed.

Mega Origami.

Considering we are proposing to create huge origami designs around the catwalk based on Issey Miyake's work, i decided to research life size origami pieces to gain more inspiration for things we could design, the first i found is a piece of design from a blog under the alias Leopard thunder, unfortunately i cannot source this piece correctly but still the inspiration is there, The second is Jim Mockford, a Japanese language teacher in Washington State, USA, reports that in the fall of 1995 a class of 20 of his students made an ori-tsuru (paper crane), out of a single sheet of paper that measured over 23 feet wingtip to wingtip.

And the third is from the burning man festival 2011, two giant life size origami pieces of dinosaur, ready to be burned down at the end of the festival.

Pinwheel.

Focusing on design for the fashion collaboration we may propose for Issey Miyake, these pinwheel designs i have found are absolutely perfect for our project, they mimic his fold down dress designs almost flawless.

We considered hanging huge origami pieces of design around the catwalk to showcase the paper to another level, using these designs could really help us to create our own versions, hopefully i will find more.

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Note pad.

The notepad is designed by Masashi Tentaku. The stem is an actual tree twig. The notepad has 150 sheets of notepaper. It is sold individually or in a 6 pack. It looks so realistic–it even comes with the netting like the actual fruits.

Again more inspirational design in terms of paper and it's potential, looking at creating notepads for the stationary pack we may be designing for Design agencies, although this is a great idea i'm not sure it would fit into a design agency, it's a little too playful for my liking but something a little simpler and more high impact could go a long way.

Nachos.

More work from Matomeno in Japan, again a great exploration of the uses of paper, and an interesting idea to create post-it notes, although i don't like the design one bit, this is the kind of thinking i need to put my mind to, different ways of creating useful tools for graphic designers to interact with and at the same time appreciate the paper used.

D-BROS.

A set of three envelopes designed by japan based design studio Matomeno, a really innovative and creative way of using paper, i appreciate this completely new way to open letters it helps the user fully interact with the paper, if we decided to continue our idea to produce a stationary pack we should look into ways to explore paper in a different way.

Pattern Matters.

Exploring some more potential ideas with pattern, the fashion industry is always exploring pattern weathers its checkered of polka dots there is always a running theme of pattern somewhere in the industry, i would like to fully explore creating complex geometric patterns through the use of paper, if we create a campaign for Issey Miyake, we could create patterned posters of his work through the years to fully investigate what makes him tick.

Pattern Matters.

'AUGMENTING THE ROLE OF PATTERN IN GRAPHIC DESIGN THROUGH TACTILE EXPLORATION'

Looking around for useful things a design agency / Graphic designer may want / need in their office, began to think about what every office needs, a calendar could be a really interesting idea especially these i found named Pattern Matters, they have created a series of calanders and poster exploring colour and paper, beautifully designed work and an innovative use of paper craft.

Opening Cermemony.

After speaking to john about how we can expand this project to its full potential, thinking a little bigger i decided to look into Fashion Runway designs, and similar things to that.

This helped me arrive at the idea of the Olympic opening ceremony, every 4 years huge ceremonies are held and i wanted to include an aspect of that into the runway design.

Issey Miyake. 2

More Issey Miyake designs for us to use within our project, beautifully colourful design again and really innovative work a little odd though.

Bag.

Issey Miyake could possibly be the best choice for this project, the potential for paper with this brief is endless every thing he has created seems paper based to begin with, giving us a great deal to work with in terms of aesthetics.

Blow Out Show.

Here's and image from what was called a 'Blow out Show' by Issey Miyake, This fashion show is designed Incredibly, again Issey has used similar ideas to ones me and james had already thought of, our idea was to have giant origami versions of here folded down dresses hanging from the ceiling maybe unfolding in sequence down the runway of the show, also to incorporate the designs around the theater more.

Pleats Please.

Packaging for Issey Miyake designed by Taku Satoh Design, wonderfully playful design, really similar to the project we're setting up for the collaboration between them and Fedrigoni, the ideas i have been having would fit perfectly into the style Issey Miyake carries through their campaigns and design projects.

London Fashion Show.

A campaign for London fashion week, really high impact graphic design to catch your attention, a lot of the design for fashion is innovative and constantly changing, therefore we need to design something creative, original and interesting.

Fold.

This non sourced piece of design, i don't suppose you could really call it design. This fold is quite interesting something to think about, could be used mid way through the book to show case a weight or texture of paper.

Paper Build.

Fedrigoni are part of the century old tradition of Italian paper making and through out the years their stocks have become apart of Italian design culture and heritage. Fedrigoni are classic Italian design in their own right and to celebrate this I’ve created a mail out designed to promote an exhibition of classic Italian design through out the twentieth century at the Fedrigoni London showroom.

A project designed by Laure Quantrill to show off Fedrigoni papers, new interesting concept for Fedrigoni to consider, although it's not what i think would attract graphic design agencies, it's still a great idea in terms of showcasing their paper.