Product Design Defined with Richard Longhi
This week we continue with the product design series this week, yep a second episode this week with another amazing illustrator who has been designing products on the side while he works his 9 to 5 design job.
We will talk about how he juggles both, what he does when things are busy, and how he decides which product to focus on next.
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Questions
- Richard, can you give everybody a little background about how you started your side business of selling products?
- Richard what is your creation process? Do you start with an idea or how do you come up with what you want to do a drawing about?
- Do you start on paper and use traditional analog materials or do you start in the computer?
- How do you define what you do as a Product Designer?
- Where do you sell your work? How do you share your work? How do people find you normally?
- Do you have certain times of the year you do more retail sales?
- How do you measure quality in a product? How have you tested products? What do you use to value quality? (No need to name any vendors just helpful to know what things to look out for.)
- How often are you adding a new type of product? Like poster, sticker, card?
- How do you decide what art to create into new products? Or do you create the art and then see how it performs and then make it into a product?
- What has been your favorite product you have created so far?
- Is there anything to look for when deciding what to sell or not sell online? Are you running any ads or will you for Black Friday?
- What type of person is your best customer?
- Richard, how much time per month do you create art to sell?
- What’s next for you?
Connect with Richard
website: https://longhidesign.com/
shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/longhidesignco
instagram: https://instagram.com/longhidesign @longhidesign
Transcript
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