New Botanic Garden for Portmeirion Pottery: Weather Series on original round plates

The original graphic

a worm's sun tanning

a windy day

a typical British rainy day

a mysterious misty day

This series rearranged the basic elements of the original graphic design:the blossom graphic, the three-leaves-ring and the lettering. The aim is to create a vivid image of Botanic Garden. The original motif is sort of calm and peaceful. The new ones are trying to play with the British's favorite topic of daily conversation: the weather, and hope will bring consonance to people who use them.

New Botanic Garden for Portmeirion Pottery: Embossment series on butterfly shape plates

The relief pattern is designed to build another connection among these 4 plates. Obviously, the figure forms the shape of a butterfly. On the other hand, the embossment is complete as long as these plates are set up. This series is no longer for eating. Instead, it's for decoration. This is the furthest range among these three.

New Botanic Garden for Portmeirion Pottery: Decal Series on butterfly shape plates

  

This is the second further range: decal on the butterfly shape. There are three elements in the original design: the blossom graphic, the three-leaves-ring and the lettering. In this range, all these three element are kept but with different arrangement.

The graphic is based on suitable plants. Plants with soft posture fit to the curvy edge of butterfly plates. The gradient shade of the plants gives a romantic feeling which correspond to the buttery shape.

The start of my MA Project- New Botanic Garden for Portmeirion Pottery

Due to my interest in ceramics, I decided to do the research of UK pottery industry in the module of Commercial Context.  That's how I knew Portmeirion Pottery and its famous Botanic Garden range. My curiosity of plants made me unable to ignore it. However, the traditional style of graphic makes it less interesting. That's why I decided to design new items for it. Here came the 6-months-long project.

The idea started with the theme of weather and butterfly shape. The  new weather graphic is trying to bring interesting imagination to people: How would  the "plants in Botanic Garden range" look like in different weather? And, as long as butterfly is one of the character in this range, why not have a set of butterfly shape plates?

In order to have different level of new products, the Weather Series is arranged on the original round plates which means it's the easiest one to achieve. The butterfly shape is developed into two ranges, one with decal and one with embossment. One for daily use and another one is sort of limited edition for collection.