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After some comments about the final products, we decided to add an aesthetic detail to them. So.
Back to the good old cutting board.
We decided to make the labels more substantial , and make a nice window to the titles. Alex is good at being precise with measurements.. Me on the other hand, I was happy to cut and fold. Measurements are not my friend.
Also, we had some fun with the final Look again glasses… Don’t tell.
When we think about the shape of the packages of cookies, we think the package as follows are the fittest way. According to this thought of package,we prefer to choose the brown wax paper to package it and with a little “tail” at the edge of the package.
About the size of this package and the way to put inside the box
Then, in order to make the outside box a little bit shorter and make the group of objects looks more harmonious , we just to think of changing the putting ways.
the height of three packages will be about 20cm .
This is the final individual package inside the box and follows the cookies for the audience.
So today was a full day of work. 8 am till 9pm!
Up early to write the summary of our product, as well as finalise the label designs and layout for the boxes. I also called Alex to check up on her and the Map printing process. When the file size was huge, I tried to prep the file for print through inDesign… which proved to be a lot harder that it should be, with all the layers Alex had done. My computer was sputtering and gasping trying to save the files.. 2 hours later Alex had managed to fix a file for print, and hey presto it was on it’s way.
I was also corresponding with Pi Mei about the quotes for the fortune cookies. We wanted to emphasise a word per quote, so I went through the quotes Vanja collected and selected the word, emailing Pi Mei the details.
As for me, it was the good old DMW. Printing out the booklet for Roll with It was interesting. I’d always sent files to print during my professional career, but never knew how they lined the pages correctly (hey, every day is a school day)
Then a couple of hours later, passed by Yiche at the 3D workshop to check he was doing alright and didn’t need help before going home to meet Alex to finish of cutting and pasting and “boxing”.
Full day!
So, after a lot of weight lifting and running around and printing and maps and lack of ability to save certain files, we got our products done and dusted (minus 2 staples, and the box of dice and glasses, that iare with Yiche for finishing touches.)
(the map is awesome by the way)
Our exhibit piece is a line of items that aid the designer in keeping their creativity flowing and challenging their ideas. Our manisfesto emphasised a lot of points, but all of them pertained to the designer, and their ability to be happy and enjoy what they were designing, believing that once you have a designer who is enjoying their work, despite all the obstacles that come their way, the design is bound to be a successful one.
Our products consist of:
- A set of dice that, when rolled, the outcome corresponds to actions that one can take to help them rethink their process, or step away from their space and try something new.
- A pair of glasses with interchangeable lenses that are representative of a new perspective. Perhaps seeing things differently will help inspire and motivate.
- A map of London that is designed to help you “get lost” by giving you minimal information. This is to allow for exploration and discovery. For an extra dose of adventure, a pencil that can decide your direction is supplied.
- A little “food for thought”, some fortune cookies to sate your hunger (at least a little bit!) as well as your desire for some direction from the greats.
This is the packaging box I made for the “Look Again” box.
It comes with a small compartment to store the Lenses and
has a magnetic fastening feature
For our exhibition space this is ideally what we have in mind all we need is some surface space the map is A1 size.
Some inspirational quotes by the greatest:
Wondering is the seed of genius.
William Mocca
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picasso
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy
Great design is eliminating all unnecessary details.
Minh D. Tran
Follow your values rather than success.
KesselsKramer
Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
Otl Aicher
Having guts always works out for me.
Stefan Sagmeister
You’re authentic when you’re honest.
Stefan Sagmeister
Complaining is silly.
Either act or forget.
Stefan Sagmeister
Your hobby comes first. Take it to work with you.
KesselsKramer
Great work is work that goes beyond it’s functional intention and move us in deep and mysterious ways.
Milton Glaser
Design is creativity with strategy.
Rob curedale
Only work with people you’d invite to your home for a meal.
Garth Walker
To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.
Scott Belsky
A designer, like an archaeologist or geologist; researches, uncovers and adds context to precious, overlooked treasures by digging deep beneath the surface.
Scott Theisen
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstain
Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.
Matthew Carter
Don’t let your design resist your readers. Don’t let it stand in the way of what they want to do: read.
Steve Krug
Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard
When you’re passionate about what you do, you become an evangelist for the very thing you do.
Jonathan Snook
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoin de Seint Exupery
Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.
Jessica Walsh
Drawing is thinking.
Milton Glaser
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you aren’t doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
Good designers are praised for their technique, great designers for their impact.
Tate Linden
Design is like a mom, nobody notices when she’s around, but everybody misses her when she’s not.
Santiago Borray
We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.
Giorgio de Chirico
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
Work cures everything
Henri Matisse
Imagination is more important than knowledge., knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
The idea is more important than the object.
Damien Hirst
The important thing is somehow to begin.
Henry Moore
Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Chuck Close
It’s when you’ve found out how to do certain things, that it’s time to stop doing them, because what’s missing is that you’re not including the risk.
Robert Rauschenberg
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only what the world is but also the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
It’s the long history of humankind.. those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only do what you’re passionate about.
Rob Judkins
Be a magnet for money, don’t let money to be a magnet for you.
Rob Judkins
Play with the structures that surround you.
Rob Judkins
If you can’t find a way, make one.
Rod Judkins
Create chance, because chance creates.
Rob Judkins
Make failure a stepping stone to success.
Rod Judkins
Control and predictability are the enemy of creativity.
Rob Judkins
Take the structure of whatever you are working with, dismantle it and rearrange it. Jumbled up, it is likely to be more interesting.
Rob Judkins
Ask questions to yourself constantly. You can learn more by looking for an answer than finding it.
Rob Judkins
Don’t hurry time.
Rob Judkins
Use the wrong tools.
Rob Judkins
Brevity is the sister of talent.
Rob Judkins
Be here, now.
Rob Judkins
Do what’s important, not what’s urgent.
Rob Judkins
It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.
Paula Sher
In the design process, my gut instinct is my best critic. I just wish I would always listen to it!
Bryan Tamayo
Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
Bill Bernbach
Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.
Mirko Ilic
Creativity isn’t worth a thing if it isn’t served with an equal amount of reliability.
Anton Peck
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
I try to take my camera everywhere with me so that I’ll be ready when unicorns crapping rainbows come flying in from the heavens.
Robert Otani
