Stencil Preview

Before I start creating my paper I feel that I should make a digital one first so that i get the look and feel of the paper before i create the paper. Although I have not thought about situations such as bleeding by creating this image it also gives me the look as if I were to print on the paper digitally.

Stencil Template

After being at training at work all day i felt that i needed to have my stencil images created by lessons tomorrow so i can print in class so over the weekend i can create my box and paper therefor i have created theses silhouette to cut out of card and use the spray paint with.     

Beall's Work

Here is a series of images created by lester beall, notice his use of solid colours as well as mixing solid colours and pattern with photography  

Beall's colours

After thinking about my wrapping paper i have decided that i am going to create my paper with stencils. Therefore i have the plan to make stencils in illustrator or photoshop of his bulb and tap piece. this means looking into his work and identfing his cholour schemes and looking at his work i have come up with these colours to use.     

Narrowed Down

After looking into each category that we have been given I can say that there are many artists that i like the look of but the era that i like the most is american 40/50s. Therefor the artists that i like the most is sybil andrews and lester beall. And after looking at the art i feel that i like lester beall the most therefore i am going to base my capsule around his art.          

Research into All Catogries

now i have looked into all the catogries I feel that i have an idea of the era i like and i also feel that i have got an idea of the artist. 

If you are stuck, Try These Books

while i am sitting here choosing an artist to study i find that these books are very helpful if you are stuck because they have just about every one of them in both of these books. a well as examples of there work and art movements  

Time Capsule

After being given a new project this week of a time capsule going back in time seems interesting. i say that reading the brief it is a little confusing so i am going to have to look more in depth into the brief to grasp the ideas fully. I like the idea of looking back in time to see how graphic design has been developed over the ages to see where it started and how it has changed.   

Finished Product

Looking at my final product i can say that i feel that i have had some obstacles along the design process but i have created new ideas to overcome these obstacles. First being not liking my first ideas then changing my cover with a fragrance so i have something to draw on the box. Elements of my box that i am pleased with is the rose and the use of gradients to give it a texture, also i am please with the bubbles that i created then turning it into a scatter brush. Also i am happy with my safety logos down the side panel. overall i am very happy with my finished product.          

3D box

After compleating my 3d box i have had problems, such as the mapping of symbols on my 3d model. I know the reason for this is because i have used so many gradients the processor could not handle the making of the graphic. Therefor i created a plain 3d box then using the shear tool i angled the symbols on the 3d model   

Working all weekend

after working weekend i have found that i have not got much done but i have found that i have my front and back panel finished so now it is just the top, bottom and sides. with the sides this will be quicker because when i decided i was creating soap i typed up all info. 

Making bubbles

to people who want to know how i made the bubbles on on first ideas here is the site 

http://www.ehow.com/how_4551890_bubbles-using-adobe-illustrator.htm

ideas development

After thinking about my development of the cover i realised that with my detergent had no fragrience to base my design around therefor i decided to use a rose fregrience with my cover. Once i traced my rose with solid colours it did not look right therefor idecided to use gradients.

Idea Not Working

after creating several different layouts for my front cover with bubbles and washing machines i felt that i needed to develope my ideas further.

Further design Ideas

After designing the front and back pannel and the layout of both sides i realised that i needed to create swatches of colours that i feel would work. Remembering that these designs were going to be printed therefor i needed to keep to gamut coloures. I also looked at the possible fonts to used and i looked at only sans serif fonts because this is what has been used over the market. But i also used sans serif due to with serif fonts it may take up more space when using it in the area of information about the product.   

Design Compleated

Over the weekend i have completed my box design and i fee that i have enough knowledge of illustrator after watching the dvds to create my design. I also feel that i should still keep to some design elements that are the same over the whole market design