Thursday, 25 September 2008

Springetts - Day Eight

Helped Zoe out by making mock-ups of the new Bendicks Mints boxes. Used the Xyron machine to create stickers of the coloured nets necessary to cover the bottoms of the original boxes. Eight boxes in four different colour ways.
The tops had been professionally printed by a repro company. I cut these out and scored them before passing them back to Zoe so that she could apply specially created silver decals to the surfaces.
Roger reviewed where I had got to on the Roots and Wings brief. He suggested developing the line quality of the drawing so that it was in greater sympathy with the overall design which has a broken and unfinished feel to it, enhanced further by the Dominican font. Jai helped me to formulate a way forward on this, suggesting that I search through the artistic brushes available in Illustrator rather than utilising effects or filters which could lead to future difficulties with pixelation.
Roger also encouraged me to apply my line drawing to a second of the designs, a shield with swirling foliage embelishment. These are good suggestions in that they create a definite workload for my final day tomorrow.