WHAT DOES AN ART STUDENT DO??: VER 0.6

Salam and good day to you all peeps and doods. Oh dear, based on my last post for this section is like way long ago. Deeply sorry for that and to make it up for it today Im gonna tell you guys what I have been doing for my PDT214 which was Packaging Design. Yeap as the Course title said, I have to design my own packaging based on the current marketed packages. It is to train us to develop ideas and quality so that we can create a state of the art packages. Mungkin bagi u guys design packaging is simple as making milo ais kt dapor tu. But sadly it is not. Few consideration that need to be taken before even making that packages. =)

First of, you need to a theme. A theme that fits for your desired product. As an example, a theme in the aspects of colour, Typeface and fonts so that it will blend perfectly with the product. Dont want a pinkish butterfly to be fitted of on a Gents Undergarments boxes dont we? lol. Secondly the boxes it self or the packages. By looking at the boxes ideas may pop up to see fit what design to put on that box. Example if the box was a pyramid kind of shape, you may put a picture that may cover up on the top of the pyramid to create a wonderful eye illusions. Confused? Okay lets get straight to some pictures shall we. 

Okay so this is my Packaging design. It was originally based on a Printer Inkjet's Packaging. I convert it to an earphone packaging (nevermind the Skullcandy. lol) So okay u guys mesti tertanya-tanya why Skullcandy? Lol it was a fake rebadging but it was for educational purpose so I wont get sued, am I? =P. Anyways, yeah this is my final product. How did I design this thing? By using a software from Adobe, the Adobe Illustrator.

Yeah you might have heard of Adobe Photoshop aite but that was mainly for Heavy picture editing and was not meant for Designing anyways. On the other hand Illustrator was made for designing stuffs like packages, and even illustrations of pictures, magazine and etc. Basicly it is not that hard using illustrator if u have been familiar with photoshop because the functions are not so far away from what photoshop has in store.

a little snapshot from the adobe illustrator. Its pretty much complicated as photoshop is. I had to photoscan the actuall package via scanner and upload to pc. Then I retrace back the outline of the package by using pen tool from the software. pretty much straight forward isnt it. Well if u think that way here comes the best part. Filling in the design. As u can see from the picture, placing the correct placement for each of the contents are crucial. The text and design has to be in the right order, and yes I know mine wasnt that much of a thing to brag about but roughly the fundamentals are basicly about this way.

After dah siap semua baru lah di print ke atas kertas art card 280gsm. Why art card? well to hold it off ofcourse, we dont want to print it out on a plain A4 paper with low gsm dont we. (Okay it is getting annoying isnt it? lol ) Anyways my final product print out looks like this.

Open Layout

Final product

Well basicly and roughly the process are most likely this way, where there are more in-depth details actually but I'll skip that part where it was care less. Anyways this is one of my MANY projects these semester. I will add up soon on my next installment. Anyways till the post doods. Cheers =D