Packaging Design ...The Good...

Packaging design

Well, my definition of good package design would be something innovative, meaning conceptual. Whether thats something that would catch the consumers eye, like good label design , or the package itself is designed in such a manner that makes it useful or original. 

Conceptually I chose this Cider can design. Here, it's just simply a 

label design, but it possess a smart logo type. The first two letters of the word cider, spelled vertically makes an image of a smiley face winking at you. This alone, from a designers perspective would make me stop, acknowledge the product, and maybe buy it. 

Next, This concept for band-aid packaging, I think, is very  innovative. Like Joe has said in class, being eco-conscious is the trend right now. In order to eliminate the unnecessary waste generated by band-aid wrappers, here they use just one package for several band-aids. I would imagine they would have 1 package for several different sized band-aids. Otherwise, hopefully you only get small cuts. Now, considering this concept I don't know if this would fall under good design or poor design. You decide. Let me know. 

Here's the package for a DVD set, I guess of a season for the show House. Now if I saw this on the shelf I would totally be intrigued. The show is about a doctor...I think, and the case that the dvd set comes in mimics a blood pack. Totally awesome. Even the label has a medical look. I think this is another great example of innovative package design. And very conceptual. It incorporates elements of the show into the design of the package.

Good Poster Idea.

I came across these poster designs on the internet and thought that this would have been a good solve for the poster assignment we just had. Instead of searching for a good image to help tell the story, allow the negative space to do so. I saved these images a few days ago and can not find the source in which I found them. I forget if ti was for a newspaper, or magazine, or what, but the message is clear...read. It is a clever idea I wish I had saw it for inspiration while I was in the brainstorming (thumbnail) stages of our last project. And I could have use simpler images, or even just text, like they did, to tell the narrative of the story. 

I had a revolution.

I had a revolution.

For this new project (the film festival posters) I was going to do Quentin Tarantino films. After attempting a few ideas and concepts the designs were falling a little flat. Not really satisfied with what I was producing, I decided to rethink, and conceptualize other ideas for this project. Then, it hit me. I thought of doing politically charged movies. Particularly involving revolutions with in the movie (ie. V for Vendetta). I thought this MAY be a good idea. When I think of revolution I think of the propaganda posters from the early part of the 20th century during the poster war years. During this time Russia was ravaged by cilvil war. During this period of political trauma, a brief flowering of creative art in Russia had an international influence on 20th century graphic design. Russian artists absorbed cubism and futurism with amazing speed and then moved on to new innovations. Amazing propaganda posters were produced during this time. Being such a fan of Russian suprematism and constructivism, I thought it would be a fun challenge to try to apply this to my poster designs. I don't know what the end result is going to be, or if they're going to even come out the way I envision. But it would be a fun challenge none-the less. 

I would scan some of the photos that I'm going to use for inspiration but I don't have access to a scanner right now.