Corvidae Designs

For this project Id ended up using some of ideas, id had for poster one and repurposed it for poster two, I still liked my idea of the utility pocket knife kinda showing that if you have the right tools you can create and do anything, find the mediums that we each individually love and can express art in there own way. I used this idea for the more general public one and kept the message simple so hopefully someone would see this and take their own thing away from it and interpret it how they like, being again that the college supplies and encourages all types of artistic expression. As for the second poster i stepped way way out of my comfort zone and decided to go with a photography approach to it which i then photoshopped and cleaned up and i personally think it turned out very well, as well as was a nice trip to leave my usual digital art style, i think this made the piece a little bit more designerly versus being more on the arty side of things. I tried to make the piece more vague having originally doddled all my main sketches I had for the piece and considered doing instead of writing the words “art ideas” ect, but I personally feel like this was the right decision. The idea behind that was to make it so anyone could see the poster and relate to the idea of having just many strange concepts and writing, most artists i know have sketchbooks and notepads next to their bed, kitchens/fridges and showers so they can capture any stray ideas that spring up at random.

Feb 9th- Brief Write up - 25 mins

Feb 11th- Idea planning- 1 hour 

Feb 14th-  First Sketches -1 hour and a half 

Feb 22nd- Sketches - 45 mins

Mar 1st- Sketches and starting- 4 hours 

Mar 2nd- Working and even more sketches- 7 hours 

Mar 2nd evening- Working , sketches, second poster idea- 8 hours

Mar 3rd- Finishing touches - 3 hours 

I had a harder time trying to come up with an idea for the First poster, the one thats more directed towards artists and people with in our program

For this assignment were tasked with making two different posters relating to the same subject matter that being art and design. 

For poster #1 poses the questions on how art can impact our lives and how it effects are daily lives, its more so about why art and design is important. It reaches to a niche community, that being people familiar with the field of art and design. Asking about terms and questions to people who are knowledgable in the field where they can answer and debate with one another. 

For this project we were tasked to make a new creative way to help with sustainability and become a bit more eco friendly or redesign something that already exists and make it better in both physical and marketing designs.

For this project I went over many different ideas and took into consideration things from my personal life that I didn't like when it came to packaging. I personally am extremely eco conscious and there isn't very much i don't either recycle or reuse, having NO single use items in my household ((with a few exceptions, i'm only human)). So finding things that I could actually improve was a challenge and I was pretty excited for the task. I was inspired to redesign the Too Faced makeup brands Natural Eyes palette because it's two separate boxes , thankfully i use the box to hold my hot glue but i'm sure most people just throw this away, which is a real shame. Too Faced has some of the prettiest boxes and packaging i've ever seen and i really don't like just recycling it and so i thought maybe i could use how pretty it is and reuse it somehow, i immediately thought about how when i moved into a new apartment i had to buy a whole makeup stand, so i took this idea and decided to make a makeup box turn into a place for brushes and pallets to go.

The package itself pulls out the bottom and unfolds to make a stand using small key holes that in a real product would punch out and the waste of it being the size of less than a fingernail. 

AND here is the finished product!! 

I wanted to keep the theme of the Too faced packaging with the pink delicate motif they use for there product but i completely  redid it, i wanted a more simpleness for the rest of the package and have the pattern on the back be flip-able so then the holder part does have awkward upside down logos or labels 

Here are the Too Faced logo redesign sketches 

Here are my digital templates 

Here is the working template id made, it does stand on its own very well and has 3 mini areas for stuff ((including the main larger box)) 

Here is the first try of the inner box, then in the empty space will fit the larger box everything comes inside, the eyeshadow pallet also fits while inside