Packaging - Latest Product Images

Well, it's been a while and I'd like to start using this thing again. I guess I will start with these:

Project 2 - Thumbnails

Here are some potential logos I have created out of some sketches I made:

Project 1 - Final Revision

So here is the die cut I made of what the box will finally look like:




Aaaaand time to actually put it all together...

Project 1 - Additional design

I decided to go on and make a gift set for my product which consists of a box for the bottle and a specialized shot glass. Here it is:



Now to actually get all this stuff together...

Project 1 - Continued

I decided to continue my project a bit further on and came up with a shot glass design for my product. I'm thinking of making a type of gift set for the product, as in the bottle and the shot glass in a special box which I will try to create later. For now, I'm just working on the glass:




The bottom portion is the actual design that would wrap around the glass, so the two ends of the stripes will meet together and make up the Stolichnaya portion of the back design. Also, I'm thinking of placing the Stoli logo on the bottom of the shot glass to repeat the name brand. And what better way to show your brand name than when a person take a shot?

Project 1 - Finalized

I went ahead and completed the rest of the bottle design.

Here is what the entire design is comprised of:




So this is the actual print where the front of the label meets with the back of the label on a clear print. I slapped the cap label in there just to conserve room, so it's not really supposed to be there.

Also with that, here is the complete bottle:



And finally, a close up of the back label:

Personal Project Revised

Behold the awesome power of ninjas!




I added some cool touches to the shirt, like a tribal pattern beneath the ninjas to make them pop a bit more and some shurikens on the back. Gotta finish up those pirates.

Personal Project

This is something I've been working on for some time now. It's a t-shirt design... with NINJAS! The next one I'm working on is another t-shirt... except with PIRATES! It'll take me a while though.

Front:



Back:

Project 1 - Revisions

I was trying to think of a way to unify the entire design into a single functioning piece. What I came up with is a sort of thin filament between the label design and the illustration that goes over the cap. At the same time, I thought of a way to apply an actual function to the thin filament and use it as a way to lift the entire tab over the bottle, with a little arrow on there that would almost say "lift here."











Here is an alternate design for the tab itself.

Emerge

First off, I confused the actual title of the event with "Emigre." I do that pretty often due to two reasons: I'm totally dyslexic. Wait... that's really the only reason.

Anyway, the show was quite enjoyable. I even managed to drag my older brother with me who is generally not too fond of art because he is a programmer. I came at the very beginning and spent at least two hours walking around the entire place, checking out every single piece. It was a very diverse mix of different types of art styles, ideas and even the actual format of some of the pieces themselves. It was especially heart warming to see works I was already familiar with, that is the works done by my fellow classmates and it compels me to participate the next time the event comes around again.

My first favorite piece was a piece that was on the far right side of the gallery from the entrance. It was the one that covered the topic of our current economic recession. I found it very intriguing due to the way it artistically represented something that almost resembles a chart, with indicators everywhere and even a legend with instructions on how to interpret the information. The illustrations were very helpful and were pretty well done.

The second piece I liked the most was Helen's piece on Darfur. For me, it was not only because I found the idea to be very clever, but it's also the fact that a subject like Darfur is very difficult to cover - let alone send the message across and actually get people to listen.

It was definitely worth going there and I plan on attending shows of that kind more often from now on.

Project 1 - Roughs

It took me a while to figure out which styles I wanted to try according to my thumbnails, but I ended up with three possible ones:












On my first set, I was going for a very subtle approach with the classic use of the label still the main focus of the bottle. To do that, I decided to abbreviate Stolichnaya to simply "Stoli" and added the correspondent name of the flavor beside it.












My second set is more of an approach towards instant clarification, where upon first view of the bottle you see the main logo and understand what product it is.











My last set is an attempt to unify the entire design all around the bottle into a single, functioning piece and in a vertical manner. The idea is that the design itself literally points to the top of the bottle.

Project 1 - Thumbnails

And here they are:

Packaging at its finest.... or not

I'm going to go ahead and get the bad ones out of the way first, so we can look at the good ones afterward and feel much better!

Anyways, here goes:

Undesirable:

Exhibit A: "Creme de Pirouline", assorted flavored tube-like waver things. I found these to be particularly disappointing due to a single, outstanding trait: the shot of the product is done incredibly well, yet everything else seems to stand out so much that it fights with the wonderful photo - thus making the packaging design not-too successful. There is too much going on in the type, where all the colors are different from one another. It almost seems as though the main logo should be in the same format as "Vanille".


Exhibit B: "Pirate's *Booty* With Aged White Cheddar YES Puffed Rice and Corn ALL NATURAL Good for you! CRUNCHY...." well, you get the picture. At a first glance, the general appeal of this product is a big let-down. First off all, you can't be too sure whether it's some sort of potato chips, pop corn or pirate linguistics training manual. So, in other words, you don't really know what's in there, and if you can't figure that out at a first glance..... well, then - you simply don't care. Second of all, I think the name could have been shortened a tad. With so many little thought bubbles and random utterances all over the package, you don't even know what the product is called. And last, pirates aren't even that cool anyway. It's all about ninjas. But, pirates are cool too. Just not as cool.

Exhibit C: "Orangel Liqueur" This product was a bit of a surprise for me. It looked great at first, and was definitely very appealing... until I took a close look at it. I think the easiest way to describe this design would be to say that it's too busy, but at the same time - it still has several qualities that could stand out on their own. So to sum it all up, I think all this design needs is a simple trim on some of its features, and it would just dandy. I mean, come on - who hasn't seen those sun rays behind the peeled orange before? And they really insist on reminding us that this drink is orange-flavored... though the name of the product already spells it out for us, as does the liquid itself. They could use an accent color of some sort, because quite frankly - that is just way too much orange.

Moving on, here is the good part of packaging. Yay!

Desirable:

Exhibit X: "Rose's Cocktail Infusions", martini mixes of all sorts of wonderful and dashing flavors. I really can't see what I could do to improve this design. Just look at it! It reads from top to bottom, where the design follows a "Here is our logo and name, here is a really nice picture of a martini, and here is the flavor of the product. Done" formula. It is basically very clear and concise and it goes straight to the point. Oh, and did I mention that the back side has a neat'o recipe for making the actual drink? No? Well, then I guess that would be up to you to find out!

Exhibit Y: "Spaten, Premium Beer" If I were a German beer-maker, (and believe me - I'd be one the first chance I get) I think I would make a pretty good job of making a lovely design package for my beer in order to sell it to other countries. Maybe it's because I'm European, maybe it's because I think it's a great-tasting beer. Nonetheless, this package truly fascinates me. Even though it is an extremely simple solution, to repeat the design of the bottle on the packaging, I think the initial design of the bottle label went so great that the company deserves to be lazy. You should go try this one. It does not disappoint. EVAR.

Exhibit Z: "Veev, Acai Spirit" The sheer simplicity of this design is phenomenal. I really can't think of anything else to say. Oh, and sorry I could not take a better photo. The bottle was so big that I could not find a good place to capture its true essence. You know, without the Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada back there. It's not like I'm trying to sell you something. Or am I?