DEERSTALKER HAT TEMPLATE DESIGN
Sherlock Holmes Project
August 2011

PROJECT BRIEF
Borbonesa were commissioned by Portsmouth City Council to create a Deerstalker hat template to celebrate Sherlock Holmes Day on 24 June 2012. The hat needed to be simple enough for primary age children to construct, and appropriately sized to wear. 

PROJECT WORK
The finished template, three A3 sheets, featured cut out hat parts and illustrated step-by-step instructions. The hat is made using a single split pin to tie up the crown and earflaps. Children were invited to decorate their hats in traditional or contemporary Deerstalker patterns and room was given for children to write about Doyle / Holmes on the flaps, which could be worn up or down, revealing or hiding their writing. I was lead designer and illustrator for the template sheets creating vector graphic hat parts and designing the step by step instructions, advert and activity sheet instructions.​

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DESIGN SKILLS - ILLUSTRATION / TYPESETTING / LAYOUT / TYPOGRAPHY / MODEL-MAKING
COMMUNICATIONS - CLIENT / ARTIST COLLABORATION
SOFTWARE - INDESIGN / PHOTOSHOP / ILLUSTRATOR / ADOBE ACROBAT 
HARDWARE - MACBOOK PRO / INTUOS 3 GRAPHICS TABLET / EPSON SCANNER 

Advert for the Make Your Own Paper Deerstalker Hat

Instruction sheet on how to use the earflaps