the box in silver and black

Examination and the Black Box

A lot has happened with our project since last week! What happened then, you ask? We worked a lot with our illustrations. We recieved advice that we should  take a step back and take a second look at our box. We realised therefore that our box was way too big for our scenario as an…

Putting the B in Boteriet

Another week has come to an end. Since last time we’ve been working day and night with the prototype for Boteriet as well as the illustrations, typography and photography. Finally our vision is coming to life! After our pre-presentation we got positive feedback from our teachers ensuring us that we are on the right track. Establishing the concept We…

poster idea 1

Examination – on the right path

Hi everyone! After a few intense and exhausting weeks, we have now completed the first part of the examination and we’re getting closer to the end of this course. We feel like our motivation is renewed and we’re ready for the final week. Examination and feedback During this week we have been finishing our prototype…

Final preparations

To put it mildly, the week has been intense. We’ve been hard at work with layout, typography and illustrations as well as finalizing the shape of our first aid kit. Our final goal with this work has been to stay true to the keywords which we settled on in our moodboard. These were: clean, simple, appealing and practical. Once complete, we…

Prototype re-design thoughts

Bonjour! This Wednesday was examination day and we got feedback on the work we have done so far and we got to see all of our classmates work too. Very exciting and inspiring to see what all of us has come up with. Next friday is the final presentation and we have a lot to…

Close up of the label on the gift bag.

Lucky number 7

The first examination is behind us and we have embraced the constructive criticism from our teachers so there’s been quite a few changes and developing done the last few days. We’re now going to focus more on the idea of this kit being a present, both in marketing posters and pitch. We have made different…

Landed the examination, now some final tweaks

Now, we are close to the finish line with our packaging design project, Skate aid kit. This week we have prepared a functional prototype for our first examination and started to work with designing our marketing plans for our product. Preparing for examination On Wednesday this week we had our first examination for our project.…

Layout, pitch and improvements

Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October: With the first pitch on Wednesday things were getting a bit stressful, so we decided to spend the weekend at school making illustrations. Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th October: We continued thinking about the layout and trying different ideas, such as patterns, different colours etc. Since our idea is that the…

First aid kit, examination

This week we finished our prototype of the packaging for our first aid kit so that it was ready for examination. We built the box in the shape and size we wanted, then we printed out the layout design on normal printer paper and glued it to the box. On the examination we received a…

photographed prototype

Working towards the finish line

Hello there! This week has been really intense and time has flown by. We have tried to stick to our time schedule but that has proven to be a challenge. Illustrations and instructions During these five short days we have continued working on the illustrations and instructions for each product. The difficulty lies in getting…