Okay, to class that day: Package design.
I'm excited about this class and I have designed a line of packaging for sewing kits.
We had to have our four boxed items and four label items printed, cut out and folded before class. Our teacher, however gave us the first hour of class to finish up an building we had to do. Mine was all done and arranged and pictures taken (of course) so I decided to help a classmate of mine, Brad.
He's doing a package design for tools and hardware and his box idea is pretty neat. The top is the shape of the tool used to install the hardware inside, so if it's nails, then the top looks like a hammer. But the top is cut and slit so it stands up and looks like a hammer head banging down on the box.
He wasn't finished cutting and folding, so I helped him to assemble everything.
Next, the whole class (and our teacher) critiqued each others work and we got to keep our critique sheets. My critiques weren't too bad. I do agree with some of the comments about type and font and the background being changed, plus I already had a list of things I wanted to tweak.
Now, today, my friend Marci and I drove over to a paper store on Peak St. called Paper Arts. She had been there before and it was a really cool store. It reminded me of the paper store I went to in Japan. Lots of large sheets of all kinds of paper from all over the world are kept in drawers, hanging on racks or slid into slots. So many textures and colors. We walked around touching everything and were kept company by Pearly, the head of consumer affairs. I decided on purchasing an Italian handmade cold-pressed half sheet to make my illuminated page for my Art History Project, which I'm going to draw in pen and ink. Yes, I'll have a picture of that when I'm done, too.
After the store, we drove around since I was not familiar with this neighborhood, because after all when one rides along with Vicki, one does not just simply go to the destination and come back. No! We explore! And Marci of course was up for it. Here are some pictures of what we found and also here is a picture of what I have designed so far and soon I will have another picture to show the updates.
Enjoy!
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| my boxes that hold tools like scissors, seam ripper... |
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| labels: these are repair kits. I'm using a cassette tape case. I'm the only one in class putting the label inside rather than outside on the product. |
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| what Stormtrooper Fred does while I'm at school if he doesn't go with |
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| meet Pearly, who greeted us when we arrived at Paper Arts |
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| inside Paper Arts |
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| some random art we found on Gaston |
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| a really cool tree in a church yard on Skillman! |
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| some antique beaded flowers we saw at a shop called Random. |
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