Idea: Photo pencils

This idea comes to us from Photojojo.

Take a cheap packet of ordinary coloured pencils and make them extraordinary by wrapping a photograph around them and presenting them as shown in the accompanying picture.

The tutorial is easy but the end result has a maximum effect.

This product could easily be sold as a generic product, or offer to take customers' photographs and apply them to the pencils. Sell using a mail order form distributed in magazines that are read by parents of young children, or at kindergartens, school fetes/fairs etc.

Two of the extra tips/ideas worth noting from Photojojo are:

1. Choose a photo that will still be recognizable when it’s only a centimeter wide: details of grass or a bunch of M&M’s spring to mind.
2. Use a different photo for each pencil, using colors that match the pencils (roses for red, blue sky for blue…)

Read the tutorial here