OBJECTIVE:
(1) creating small products with a minimal color palette.
I have created hundreds of iron-on patches, stickers, buttons and lapel pins that have been sold to small boutiques all over the world. It’s always fun when these items find their way into TV.
Here’s two good examples. I designed the robot on Bill Potts vest in Dr. Who and the skull and crossbones on Billy Joe Armstrong’s shirt from a Green Day video.
Here are some of the other lapel pins I have created
FITZTASTIC
From Concept to Product
I have a line of die-struck lapel pins I sell on my e-commerce website. The process of creating a lapel pin is a bit tricky because you want to use a limited color palette and keep the design very simple. The item is so small every small detail needs to be carefully planned out. My process for creating lapel pins is to first draw or paint my design on paper or canvas. Then, I scan in the artwork and clean it up in photoshop. Next, I take the cleaned up graphic and vectorize it in Illustrator to create the black die stamp. I select colors from a CMYK palette and match those to a Pantone chart so I can instruct the manufacturer to use the right colors.
The manufacturer then makes a few adjustments and then I make some updates and in a few weeks, I have a proof. Once the proof is approved, my pins are created. It is a very fun process and always brings me joy to be able to offer my own unique designs.
STEP 1: CREATE ARTWORK
STEP 2: SCAN, CLEAN UP, VECTORIZE
STEP 4: APPROVE PROOF
STEP 3: CHOOSE COLORS