Creative Character Design for Products
Let’s Keep It Brief and Identifying Theme
A course by Rob Flowers , Illustrator
About the video: Let’s Keep It Brief and Identifying Theme
Overview
“ In this lesson, we will talk about what we will look at in our brief and explore the requirements for the project. ”
In this video lesson Rob Flowers addresses the topic: Let’s Keep It Brief and Identifying Theme, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Character Design for Products. Develop a cohesive set of characters to apply to any kind of object using Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's Keep it Brief & Identifying Theme We'll talk about what's expected of us and what we'll produce. You'll be taken through all the process of designing characters for use on products. The important first step is to understand the brief and understand the terms within it. I've put together a quick brief to look at, so let's go through that. Here we have our brief. Here's an example of the thing that we might be producing for one of our final outcomes for this project. And here's some information that we'll be talking through. We've been set the task to develop a set of character desi...”
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Course summary for: Creative Character Design for Products
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Rob Flowers
A course by Rob Flowers
Rob Flowers is a London-based illustrator who specializes in character design. He’s been a freelance illustrator for over fifteen years, a period in which he has created illustrations for TV commercials, music videos, fashion collections, newspapers, magazines, and even edible posters.
Throughout his career, his illustrations have been published in The New York Times, Time Out, Hollywood Reporter, and Creative Review; in advertising campaigns for Converse, Maynard Bassetts, ASOS, Heely’s, Red Bull, and Pull&Bear; and through collaborations with brands like Nike, Mambo, and Wolf & Badger. He has also designed and directed music videos for Kaiser Chiefs and Tinie Tempah.
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