A Special Gift for Baby Higgy
From The Baby’s Perspective
Instead of staring at animal butts, I wanted to design something a newborn can actually see. Bold black and white images are known to stimulate the development of optic nerves and encourage cognitive development. So the concept was quite simple, no animal butts and use black and white only.
Sketch, prototype and test.
I started with some sketches of animals and what would work best in black and white.
I wanted get a feel for size, how many plushies I would need, and where the approximate position would be.
I’ve never sewn before so there was a lot of testing and prototypes before making the final plushies.
The design needed to be efficient.
I didn’t leave myself nearly enough time for this project. So I needed to be smart and designed a repeatable pattern in order to increase efficiency.
Sometimes iterating is painful.
So much work is put into sewing just one plushy, that it’s difficult to accept mistakes. But my mom and niece kept saying the panda looked scary. So, bye bye panda. I’m happy I redid it, the second one turned out much better.
