Finishing touches on our stink bug project
Week five This final week is all about doing the last finishing touches on our stink bug packages. Its been very hectic these last few days with lots of stuff to do and fix, but hopefully we will get everything done in time for our exhibition this friday. We think we have worked really hard and are…
Imprint and poster making for our stink bug project
So we’re down to the fifth and last week on our stink bug packaging project. Time has flown by very fast and last week was one of the most intense week we’ve had since the project started. We had a lot of things to develop on our design for the packages and we also had to…
Doing our bug packaging test print
So on Friday we had our test print on the Mimaki printer like we talked about last time. We did struggle a bit, of course… First of all we misunderstood our teacher so we had the wrong format on our document. When we finally had fixed everything, the printer printed our design 3 cm offset……
Our struggle with wanting to be environmentally friendly
Last week we wrote about our thoughts if whether we would use glue or not because we want to be as environmentally friendly as possible and glue is not known for being that. But we did some research and found an environmentally friendly glue called “rye” glue (rågmjölsklister, read more about it in swedish here) that we are gonna…
Stink bug packaging photoshoot
The time is going very fast in our stink bug packaging project! It’s already the end of week two which means it’s only three weeks left until the exhibition of our packing for the edible stink bugs. Yesterday we had a photography lecture where we learned about product photography and camera settings. We have also…
Progress on our stink bug project
Hello again! A lot has happened with our stink bug project since the last time we posted. For example we scrapped the name Nordvinge and switched to Fjällbaggen instead because it sounded better and didn’t have the word “vinge” it (we had too much of that word in our product names). We have also decided on the…
Introducing Nordvinge stink bug-packaging
We are three students from the Graphic Design program at Mid Sweden University and our team consist of Felicia Wikman, Karoline Esbjörnsson and Kristian Lafta. In our communicative packaging course we have been given an assignment to package edible bugs as a new protein source. We were chosen to package “stink bug” (Bärfis) but we are marketing…