The final result of Minihjälpen

The final result of five weeks hard work. This has been a busy month. We’ve been working all day and all night; making packaging constructions, cutting and folding cardboard, making illustrations… we’ve accomplished a lot in just five weeks. We’ve also learned a lot, how to choose the right kind of paper and cardboard, how to…

Vernissage poster and printing

Monday 3d November: We started writing the design manual. We gathered all the information about what fonts we’ve used, colours, the marketing poster, packaging constructions, etc. We also created the vernissage poster and placed it on a billboard in school. Tuesday 4th November: Since the big, fancy, Japanese Mimaki printer is broken, we needed a…

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…

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…

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…

Re-designing a lifesaver!

For the course Communicative Packaging Design we got the mission to re-design a lifesaver, also known as first aid kit, by Cederroth. Monday 6th October: We started by researching the company and its competitors by asking around in different public places, such as a sport center, a museum and stores. In the afternoon we created…