type 2: 4.9 photo experiments

I didn't save enough time to take all of the photos I wanted to, but I enjoyed seeing how the different background colors and props affected the overall look. Below are some of my favorite shots:

 

For the final, I want to save more time to take a larger variety of photos. I especially want to take a photo(s) with a hand holding the box and a photo showing the box on a grocery store shelf.

type 2: 4.2

This week was focused on designing the cereal boxes with all of the content included. At first, the content didn't seem very tedious, but the further I got into each design the more overwhelmed I became. It's intimidating trying to find a place for everything! Below are the designs I developed:

 

 

I spoke a little today with Kidwell and he taught me how to do the mono- and duotone method correctly. Also, after looking at the other students' work, and overhearing Kidwell talk, for next time I plan on making my boxes look less flat and avoiding using singular color themes so much.

type 2: scanned explorations

Over the weekend I enjoyed moving away from hand-lettering and painting type, to printing, cutting, taping, and scanning type. Here are some of my explorations:

I've begun the process of adding and combining my explorations (and the rest of the project's content) onto the form of the box – it is quite challenging. I spoke with Kidwell today and he mentioned trying monotone and duotone colors on these scanned images, I've been having fun experimenting with that!

type 2: chance/design

Last class we started an exercise called chance/design. Here are the basic steps:

1) Plot out the size and basic shape of the cereal box. 

2) Divide the box into 16 sections (4 x, 4 y). 

3) Divide the design content into 12 portions. 

4) Flip a coin to determine the typographic size, style, orientation, and location.

5) Place and adjust the above attributes (determined by steps 3, 4) onto the cereal box.

Below are three of my results:

 

It was an interesting exercise. After seeing my results, I can honestly say I would never have come up with these designs if it weren't for chance. Looking forward, this exercise will be a good reminder to have fun and be playful during the design process.

type 2: 3.26

Since last week, I've done a lot of experimenting! The below images are all hand-drawn / painted – I used a variety of mediums: ink, pastels, foam cut-outs, watercolors, acrylics, and ink pens. After experimenting, I scanned them in and started experimenting with color, layout, orientation, etc. There's still a lot of experimentation and development ahead of me, but here are my explorations:

(I want to make the star shape out of type to meet criteria)

 

                              

These were leftovers from the peel & stick foam I cut and used in some of the above experiments. I learned that it was really fun and easy to rearrange the letters in different compositions. I actually came up with 52 different compositions, below are a few photos of my favorites: