The First Aid Cross

This is the final result of the First Aid Cross – the first aid kit for the home. Our vision was to create a practical and stylish first aid kit and we managed to complete the task. The First Aid Cross is easy to use and has an appealing design.

The cross – your first aid kit for the home

We are finally done with our first aid kit and can proudly present to you The First Aid Cross or as we say in Swedish “Första Hjälpen Korset”. In the very last second we changed the pattern on the outside of the cross. We created a graphic pattern that, believe it or not, is made…

The new pattern on the cross

Pitch, feedback and modifications

Last week we told you about how the work has progressed and that we had a really busy week. Both with our own work and with interesting lectures. This week has especially been about making preparations for our first pitch on wednesday this week and the development and modifications of our prototype. Wednesday this week…

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…

This is our working space. This is where we came up with our new prototype which changed our focus.

New track, new focus

If last week was about creating a concept and getting started, as well as recovering from the ketchup incident, this week is about putting new focus on a new track and keeping our own deadlines. Since last time we have had a lecture about color emotions. In connection with the lecture we created a moodboard…

Evidence of the ketchupincident

Bloody ketchup course intro

This week started with a hilarious introduction to the course Communicative Packaging Design. Our teacher introduced us to the assignment of packaging first aid kits with a dramatised ketchup-incident that left the whole class in shock. Our teacher, Anna-Sara Fagerholm, introduced our task of packaging first aid kits by “cutting” her finger and staging a…