Apple Peice

Developing an apple piece, I had to try out different shapes and different nets. I ended up making the piece more straight as straight lines were easier. I edited the nets by adding bits on and cutting bits off.

 

 This final one is nearly there but I think there can be improvement.

Logo Development

 I played around with my initials creating different logo's. I then saw the mouse shape that my initials created so I added the lead and developed the mouse.

             I then came up with 8 final designs and asked the people in my class for feedback. 10 out of 13 people chose number 2 which was my favorite anyway :)

This is my final logo design.

Ideas + Thoughs

Getting all my thoughts and ideas into my sketch book... making things a lot clearer.

 

Laser Cutting

The Laser cutting workshop was pretty straight forward, you drew up the bottle on Illustrator and then the laser cutting pretty much did everything else for you. Although you would save energy/time cutting out the packaging I didn't like the slightly burnt brown edges around the bottle.

Skills Workshop 2

This workshop involved cutting and pasting your initials in different ways making them join and overlap or not join at all.

With the above logo I was thinking about the positive and negative space and the contrast with the white text on a black background.

I really like the idea of only using the inside of the letters. It also kind of looks like a smiley face :D

 Here I was looking at the space that was left when the letter was cut out.

 Making the inside of the letters a focus again.

This reminds me of building blocks as the letters are all leaning on each other for support.

Paper Folding, Scoring and Cutting in my own time

Outside of class I played with different ways I could score and fold the paper making different shapes.

Martin O'Niell

I have been thinking about not having all the cut-outs on my design being really detailed and for some I could just use silhouettes like Martin O'Neill does with his cut-outs.

My Audience

I have decided that I am going to do a lot of paper-cutting with my box and I found that the Paper- cut Artist and Illustrator Julene Harrison who lives in Chicago is represented in the UK by Central Illustration Agency.

I found the Central Illustration Agency's website and it is based in London. It is made up of 80 Illustrators and was founded by Brian Grimwood in 1983.

There are lots of different types and styles of illustration work including typography, motion and interactive. I think it's really good that this agency likes lots of different styles of work and has such a diverse group of illustrators. I like a lots of the Illustrator's work on this website and would love to be represented by an agency like this.

Julene Harrison

Julene Harrison is a Paper- cut Artist and Illustrator that I came across. I really love her work the preciseness and accuracy that goes into making something like that. I really enjoy cutting and using my hands, the making and the process is an important part to me.

 

 

I really like this piece the idea of how I could use the things that I use as a designer in my work and on my package.

Rob Ryan

I came across Rob Ryan a few years ago I really like his paper- cuts that are so detailed, complex and precise. I love how he mixes typography into his images and how the balance of text and image changes in each piece with some pieces only containing just text or just image.

Richard Sweeny

In the first skills workshop Richard Sweeny was mentioned so I found his website. He used the paper scoring technique just like we learnt in the workshop but his are a lot more complex than the scoring and folding we did in the workshop. I like how there are shapes inside the shapes and the patterns that are made.