Do it yourself

Found this as an alternative to the packaging concepts/ideas I have at the moment, really like the idea of people making the packaging their own, or even for me to use as methodology for rebranding, or designing. Bad idea to let the public do it themselves, as if this was industrial or commerically distributed, there would be a great deal of health and safety to fill out and blag, considering the iron.

Nonetheless, it looks a great deal of fun, with main focus on typography. Heres the site you can actually do it yourself. 

 

At the end of the page from the link, there is even a price guide, and place to buy all the supplies you need to make it, all reasonably well priced as well! 

 

Lovely packaging that pal, really

 This post is a bit of a mish mash of what I found on my initial quest for packaging that would be of some relevance to my search for inspiration.

Just saw this and although it is not Puma, I particularly like the shape of the box, as it reminds me of the Trinomic process used in shoe manufacture. Yes I know the illustrations are bad but still it is a lovely box.

This is a particular favourite of mine, which isnt unusual considering it has something to do with cardboard or novelty items, but because it reminds me of when Puma used to endorse and sponsor the large events. Plus breakdancing is really something to watch and I only wish I had the physical stamina and endurance as the guys who can.

The branding is really uniform and the choice of using a limited colour pallete, basically only using black gives its simple delivery an easy one to identify with, as is the idea of branding and advertising. 

This looks tech-savvy, by the way the craft of the box becomes more like a display within itself. Not to mention that it is made from super light, yet dense flute material. Imagine kevlar but for card. Potentially I think that I could use the interactive element of the design to direct me to some complimentary print processes, like spot varnishing or foiling.

Tint or Gradient?

I found these after a recommendation from my dad's girlfriend to check out 44 flavours, a german based company, to see what I thought about the site. The following examples prove that gradients CAN look good despite the common conception that all gradients are bad.
I especially like the hand rendered type which is something I would definitely want to look into more this year as part of my practice, along with the fluidity of the image with the type creates a lovely visual soup to feast your eyes upon. Quench your eyes in the visual audacity!

This is from a book called "Playful Type" which experiments with type. A conglomeration of designers worked on this, that aside, the use of colour on the other pages of the book are very striking, have utilised a variety of processes, from stamping, foiling and just silk-screen printing.

2 colour

This is a good example of using 2 colours to their full potential, using a number of tints to soften the image rather than make it full-on to look at in terms of its vivacity.
These are both from the local legend Luke Drozd, both were screen prints then digitized to send off to the publishers. I particularly like the way the softer tints detract away from how macabre and quite graphic his work tends to be.

1 colour

The following posts are responses to the initial research for the print module, and to the second part of the summer brief. Some of the designers/illustrators I'm putting up are mainly from the summer brief where we had to look into a variety of print processes they use and also how they achieved this.

This illustration is part collage and watercolour, along with pen, done by a friend of mine called John Chamberlain. I like the effective use of stock , rather than going for just some clean bleached paper, the off white compliments the overall composition, and the context of the illustration. John mainly works with this mixed media approach but often sticks to just pen and paint.

Present them.