Bag and Jar Labels

Here is the carrier bag design for 'Sweet Enough'. From this picture you can't see, but on the reverse side to this are the trademark purple stripes.
The grey paper stock has been completed with the purple ribbon as handles. I sweet finishing touch.

Then there's the jar labels for the boiled sweets. I've only shown an example of what the jars might look like for 3 types of boiled sweets, strawberry bonbons, mint humbugs and liquorice comfits.

So..that's another thing off my to-do list.

Sweet Enough Stationery

I've finally got the printing of the Sweet Enough stationery done today. I've created a business car, a compliment slip, a letterhead and an invoice layout.
I found a lighter grey stock to what I originally intended, which has worked a lot better behind the purple body copy.
Unfortunately the photo's have come out quite dark, but you get the idea.

'Cooki' Evaluation

This brief was to create an identity for a friend, Chris Cooke, who's know as DJ COOKI. He only asked for an identity design, one that can be applied onto flyers, posters, web presence and Cd demo's etc. The usual stuff related to Dj's I guess.
But to bulk up this work as a brief, I decided to create a CD as well.

I enjoyed the actual designing of it, but when it came down to

I've finally, at last, completed the COOKI brief!

It's taken a while, but I've finally got there!

The designing of the actual identity was fairly straight-forward. I enjoyed putting together a few ideas, sending them off to Chris to see what he thought, what he liked/disliked about certain points and then amending them until I'd created the one he wanted to use.

The the Cd, I enjoyed putting that together, as looking as Cd design is something I've never really done before and it's not necessarily my 'thing'. Putting it together and creating a product was a bit harder than expected. I had in my head how I wanted it to look. But it never quite worked that way until last week, when I discovered how to print onto the actual CD!
Simple, I know, but I struggled to get my head round it.

But now I've created something I'm really happy with and think it's suitable for submission!
I'd love the opportunity to do something like this is near future. And Chris has seen the Cd design I had a go at doing, even though he didn't ask me to create it, and is going to let me know when he needs his next demo Cd doing...and there will be money involved next time. So that's good news!

Sweet Bag

This afternoon I've got the paper sweets bags for the 'Sweet Enough' brief completed. One side having the purple stripes, and the other the logo stamped onto it.

The only negative point to it is that I'd bought the stamp before the final crit last week, so this is the old, original logo, not the one I've now chosen as the final identity for the confectioners shop! But still, you get the idea.
Anyways, I might reconsider this image, and the design for the paper bags and just have them featuring the purple stripes, without using the old stamp? We'll see!

Here it is anyway...

Design Context Website

I've spent this morning trying to complete my Design Context website, and I've now decided it's complete. I've included all the content I intended to include, adding a few extras, such as my dissertation 'Can graphic design be sustainable?'.

I had intended, during the last design context presentation, to do a book, like everyone else. But from hearing the feedback, it came about that I should maybe consider putting together a website, what with being 'sustainable' and all that!

Putting together s awebsite is something I'm not overly confident about doing, especially in Dreamweaver. Although we were taught the basics last year, I would have had to spend a lot of time coming to grips with it all and teaching myself what to do, which wasn't really very practical with the time I had left to do it.
So I've put it together using Indexhibit, which took a while to understand the workings of it. It is straight-forward to use, but has many restrictions because of this. So on appearance, my website is really straight-forward and has basic design elements. But for the purpose I was intending, it was practical.

The website address is www.sustainabilitywithindesign.co.uk

So here are a few screen grabs from a few of the pages on my site.
There are four sections to it...



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1. Introduction
What is sustainable design?
Why become a sustainable designer?



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2. Who's doing what?- Looking at practicing sustainable designers and organisations.


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3. Step By Step
Getting started
Design process
Production


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4. Opinions/Theories
A few quotes
Articles from the internet, books and magazines
My third year dissertation

Final COOKI CD

Today I've finally completed the CD for the COOKI brief!
It's taken a while for me to get my head around doing it, as every time I got close to completing or, or thought I was close to completing it something didn't work quite as I intended it to work.
Especially the COOKI identity on the front of the case, which has ended up being a clear sticker.

I'm happy with the final resolution, especially since discovering a method of printing onto a CD! Up until this morning I was intending to keep the CD within the case white, but as the sticker on the front isn't as clear and bold as I would like, I thought the CD needed to become a bit more of a feature!





I can finally put this brief away now, I just need to organize and file it in some sort of an order, and figure out a way of presenting it for submission.

Overall, I've really enjoyed this brief. It's been fun and there were no boundaries, it was really open. And it's even more of a success because Chris (the guy who asked for the identity designing) has chosen this one, is using it on existing promotional material and web presence and he is now putting together a demo CD which he is requiring a CD design for....

Improved Identity

Yesterday in the final crit we discussed the development work of my confections brief. It was brought up that I should maybe re-look at my identity. Although everyone seemed generally happy with the appearance of it, they recommended I look at the swirly lines above and below the type. (Example of first idea below)


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Original identity idea for Sweet Enough.

So I've had another look at it. Doing some research into calligraphy and decorative type and stuff.
I didn't want to spend too much time on re-doing my whole identity for this project, as I'v only 2 weeks left to get everything else produced. I was happy with the identity, but I can see what people mean, it's just a boring single weighted line.

So I've added some weight into the lines above and below the text. The new and improved identity for Sweet Enough is shown below...



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New and final identity idea for Sweet Enough.

So this is the one I'm going to take forward. I'm so much happier with it, but disappointed with myself for being happy with the original idea! Compared to this one, it's so bland, straight-forward and overall, boring!

So now I can progress with all the other things I need to do. I felt I had to take a step backwards after the crit yesterday, what with being suggested to re-consider my identity. It was just a minor glitch, but worth re-doing!