I have bought countless supplies for this project! For the artwork, I am inking everything by hand, and digitally arranging and colouring the images (this way I can ink different components of the pages separately if needed), printing the magnets onto shrink plastic, the zine/poster onto matt printing paper (medium thickness for an easy fold), the mug design onto decal paper, and the stickers onto sticker paper.
Some inking -
Printing and folding the zines -
Tom cameos in the print!
Magnets, all nicely shrunk.
Testing the decal on a spare mug - not looking good... will cut out the letters individually to avoid a cheap plasticy effect.
Packaged box with sticker logo - I don't like. I don't think that solid cardboard boxes are ideal for the packaging as you can't see inside, but they're what I have so I will have to make do. Instead of using the sticker paper, I will hand paint the logo on the boxes as I don't like the white.
All that I am waiting for now is to get the mugs - I am going to the reject pot shop in Kentish town as they sell a great variety of quality but affordable mugs.
I've also made a project cost breakdown with two figures, one based on the overall cost of materials, and one based on the cost of only the materials used (and not leftovers). Based on this I have decided to sell my pack for £10.
£16 zine paper
£15 decal paper
£6 acrylic spray
£2.70 sticker paper
£7.50 boxes
£8 inks
£12.80 shrink inkjet paper
=£68
using…
one third of zine paper £5.33
half decal paper £7.50
sixth acrylic spray £1
half sticker paper £1.35
all boxes £7.50
all inks £8
half shrink paper £6.40
= £37.08
mugs - £28
total £65.08
each £4.33, so 100% profit - £5 per piece or £75 total
or ALL materials taken into account (£96) - £6.40 each
retail £10 - £3.60 profit per piece, or £54 total (over 1/3 profit)
