Illustrations and prototypes

Monday 20th October: It’s important with a great pitch to make the client understand its needs. That’s why we have started to look into how to make a pitch presentation, to get the thoughts rolling. In the afternoon we had teacher guidance with our almost finished prototype. We discussed details about how to open the smaller packages…

Skate aid kit prototype

Kickflipping our design

We are in full process with designing our first aid kit for skateboarders. After last weeks work with moodboard and redesigning we have now advanced to working more intensely with the layout. Material hunt Last Thursday we decided to buy all the necessary components for our design. In the beginning of this week we wanted to use…

Prototype on the way

We are currently working very hard with finishing the prototype for Wednesday’s presentation. Since last time we wrote, a lot has happened. Meeting with our teachers On Monday we had a meeting with our teachers. We brought the prototype we were working on as well as ideas for a marketing campaign we are putting together.…

Eat, sleep, design and repeat

As we wrote last week we had a lot of unofficial deadlines, that we had put up for our working process. For instance we wanted the final shape of the kit, the typography and the theme of the illustrations to be decided. So, how did it turned out? Since we wrote last time we’ve spent…

Pattern-color-and-horse-bonanza

Bonjour! It’s finally Friday and this week has been very effective. We have been working a lot on illustrations and colors that will be printed on the packaging. The thing we are most excited to tell you about is that our main design for our First-Aid-Kit is done. The colors we have chosen for the pattern is four shades…

Material

Simplifying Boteriets design

If last week was about building the structure – this week has been about simplifying the design. This is our first packaging course and we went in with the idea to pack everything that came in our way. We realized that we have been slightly overambitious. The box and the different packages inside were to complicated to open. The original idea  that our…

Packaging prototype

A Change of Design

Since last week we have come a long way in our design by looking at it from another point of view.  In Monday’s tutorial we presented the results of last week; prototypes and illustrations. On the day after the tutorial we had a class in product photographing, how to change the light in our favor,…

work in progress prototypes

Simplifying, again!

Dealing with detours We spent last weekend building prototypes and simplifying the previous ones, preparing for the guidance meeting on Monday. Feedback was mixed with very little constructive criticism, what we took from that meeting was basically to keep simplifying the concept. However we still lacked many of the materials we needed, some proved difficult…

New placement of the products

Colors – for a positive feeling

Since our last update we have been developing the design of the package. For the products we have made C-sketches where we want to create a positive feeling by using different colors for each product. We are creating a pattern of the product colors, that we will use balanced through our packaging design. For example…

Fresh and young, practical and healthy

Our scenario is a first aid kit that is easy to carry with you in your everyday life. The target group is young people aged 18-25. We believe the kit should be more portable to make the target group want to carry the kit with them all the time. Our thoughts on the kit is that it should be able…