Being an Illustrator and Graphics Designer, I have always been told to keep up to date with popular topics and the news, in order to get the best idea of what people want and peoples views on current events. I tend to do this out of habit and almost accidentally sometimes, as I spend most of my free time on social media or binging Netflix or Youtube.
Whilst visiting my Girlfriends, we visited one of our friends who lives close by, and he asked us if we had watched the new Netflix original- Squid Game. Although I had heard of it, I was yet to watch it or even understand what it was about. After the first episode I was drawn in instantly and so was mostly everyone else on social media. Squid Game is a Korean show, where contestants are in to win 45.6 billion Won. This is done through a last man standing play style, with tasks which put you against your friends and make it easy to make enemies along the way, in a similar mindset of The Hunger Games.
After watching the entire show, I was really amazed at how different the show was, especially being Korean, some quirks of the show were unique to what we as a British audience would stand out and remember.
Along with my Idea of making clothes based on Uniqlo’s UT Collection line of clothing, I thought that the recent phenomenon that was Squid Game would be the perfect opportunity.
Adam Renshaw PDP 