I intend to design and make a series of true crime themed products that could be bought and enjoyed for personal use or for gifts by other true crime nerds. I have identified a rise in the popularity of true crime in the last few years, with podcasts such as Serial and My Favourite Murder, documentaries such as Making a Murderer, Inside The Mind Of A Serial Killer and The Keepers, and Netflix originals like Mindhunter. Theres a growing cult following surrounding these discussions of true crime, with podcasts such as S-town setting a new record for 10 million downloads after just 4 days of it becoming available. And although some of these podcasts sell merch, theres still not a huge variety of different products available out there.
I intend to make a cohesive range of true crime themed products with an emphasis on dark humour and the feminist and survival aspect of podcasts such as My Favourite Murder. Among these products will be lower priced items such as stickers and badges ranging to slightly more expensive items like tote bags and mugs. Its important to me to have a wide range of price points available so that any true crime fan of any income can buy something they can enjoy.
Themes and subjects:
What Themes/Subjects will form the content of your work for this module? This should include theoretical and non-creative based content and concerns. This section should identify your consideration of the social, cultural, ethical and creative concerns of contemporary Illustration practice.
General themes:
- true crime
- murder
- dark humour
- humour
- gifts
- merchandise
Specific subjects:
- true crime podcasts
- serial killer puns and jokes
- emphasis on the feminist and survival aspect of true crime
- infamous serial killers
- portraits
- lighthearted merch for a not lighthearted subject
Practical and conceptual application:
Specific disiplinary area:
- packaging and retail, predominantly online retail
Audience/ contexts:
- consumers of true crime media such as podcasts, TV shows, documentaries and books
- collectors or buyers of contemporary illustration products or homewares
- possibly to be bought by those who run murder podcasts to sell on their own stores
Production/ distribution methods:
- some items such as badges and mugs could be printed externally by companies such as Awesome Merch
- other items like tote bags could either also be outsourced or printed by me in university
- I feel these products would be best promoted and distributed online as that is where most of the true crime Podcasts and programmes are consumed
- More specifically on websites like Etsy, they could also be sold on a dedicated website specifically for the selling of true crime merchandise
Illustrators/ designers/ studios:
- Rebecca Green (portrait and documentary style)
- Daria Solak (blending of paint and pencil)
- Pippa Toole (graphic images and character design)
- Molley May (especially her Macbeth zine and character design)
- Kristyna Baczynski (varied range of products and applications)
Studios:
- Ohh Deer (especially their paper gang monthly subscription boxes, filled with a range of stationary, stickers, cards etc)
- Paperchase (stationary and stickers)
- Typo (cards, stationary, gift range, mugs)
Creative skills I hope to develop:
- more confidence and variation in my hand drawing, especially when it comes to creating portraits of people which will be a large part of this project
- development in mixed media, I enjoy painting with gouache and drawing with pencil so it would be nice to find a way to mix the too
- more screen printing! I enjoyed the process of screen printing a lot in the last module and i’d like to develop that further and find a way to put more of my self and my own visual quality into it
- proficiency in using and formatting hand drawn text alongside my illustrations
Key texts:
Ann Rule- The Stranger Beside Me
John Douglas- Mind Hunter
Christoper Berry- Dee - Talking with Psychopaths and Savages
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