Design Strategies: July 2009

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Ok... it's been ages since I last blogged... I feel the guilt don't worry :D. In between times I was on work placement in Cheltenham. When I was on placement it occured to me how much I missed hand drawing things. I spent most of my time at a mac screen which is no bad thing at all, and I really appreciated the opportunity to see how a design studio works... but i missed just drawing... so maybe I want to be an illustrator after all... So despite completely confusing me over my Graphic Design practice, and what I generally want to do in life (BIG questions lol), it did however give me a better idea for my dissertation... The idea of writing it on the ethics of alcohol advertising never sat completely right with me. It didn't exactly grab my attention. So I'm thinking of resubmitting my proposal form with a title that questions hand rendered graphic design's place in a computer driven age. I was always reluctant to design on a computer... which is quite worrying for someone that wants to be a graphic designer but meh... And so I think it'd be an interesting topic to cover... I mean, you have illustrators like Hennie Haworth and Travis Millard who hand render everything... but then there's illustrators/graphic novelists like Frazer Irving that illustrate largely in Photoshop.

Anyhoo... This is a bit of work from Kate Jenkins from 'Cardigan'... I dunno what it's classed as... maybe craft or something... but it's pretty and I like it :D

Sunday, 5 July 2009

All sorts of stuffs I find interesting...

Wine bottle design by Duffy & Partners

Shine self promotion... a mini torch packaged to advertise the design firm

Everything on this shop :s
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5107622

Grammys typographic promo posters

Paper orchid cake ummm... things

More packaging from the dieline.com

Powerfuel Vodka Range by Kolle Rebbe

Packaging for random but v nice wooden animals by enormouschampion

Milkshake packaging by Hattomonkey

HanTang Communications Group for Quzhou Seezo Trading
"such tragedy could have been avoided"... genius... LOVES it :D

Quick Fruit design by Marcel Buerkle

Bold City brewery packaging by The Robin Shepherd Group.

Origami packaging...

Albert Menes packaging 4 Sardiiiiiiiiiiiines

Coleman kids campfire set... I'm not really sure what this is for exactly... but apparently it's for family campfire activities... However, I love te really beautiful illustrations and the prciousness of each item in the set. Each is individually packaged, and each has an illustration of a different animal on it.

True volume hair stuffs

Whooooooo packaging

Being the complete loser that i am.. in so many ways.. i completely forgot about www.thedieline.com. I love this website. I love interesting packaging. It's quite sad really but every time I lose confidence with my graphic design work or if I ever have any doubt that Graphics is what I want to do... If i find some nice bits of packaging like this I feel inspired by it, and remember how much I love design... despite it making me a stresshead most of the time. Sometimes however, looking at websites like this just depresses me as the work is so amazing lol. I don't think I can win...Anyhoo... this wine packaging/labelling is for Gut Oggau and by Jung von Matt of Gold.