Final Idea?

After some 'umming' and 'arring' about which nets to use, I decided I wanted to go back to my original idea of using more of the paper folded origami design. The reason behind this is because I have more idea of where to take the whole thing and what to do with all the different sections. So I went back to my sketch book and sketched out a neater version of my prototype with all the fold correctly marked so I could see where each fold needed to be. I then realised that this net would not be big enough and eventually I would need to redo the net on a bigger scale.

A more complicated net...

After attempting some easy nets on my own i had a go at attempting another more complicated net, this however i needed to use the internet to help me get a rough guide, hopefully after this net i will have come to terms with how they work and have a better understanding of paper folding and more ideas of what i could do with my work.

Laser Cutting..

Last week we had a session where we were taught to use the laser cutter, I was looking forward to this session as i though it'd be good to use this process to make my packaging, so i found my way around illustrator and made the shapes we had to make, i found this extremely difficult as i'm not the best for being patient but i got there eventually.

I took this to the workshop and although it was a lot quicker than cutting it out and i'm not a fan out cutting things by hand, as i don't have the steadiest hand i wasn't amazed by the laser cutting process, as when the edges and shapes were cut the ends of the paper were burnt and the smell wasn't great! So i am therefore undecided on whether I will use this as the method i want to use to cut out my net.

Nets Nets Nets

So after successfully making one box out of a nets I thought id attempt some simple nets again without the use of the internet, so i drew them out in my sketch book. these are the nets i came up with.

A simple box and two different triangles, a four sided triangle box and then an equilateral triangle with a triangle bottom. 

Another Net...

So I thought id have another go at making a net, and after struggling to make a box I thought this would be next to impossible, but with a bit of help from the internet making a more complicated net wasn't as hard as i first thought.

This is the packaging flat as a net...

And this is it constructed...

Packaging Nets

As i wanted my logo to look as if it had been stamped onto my packaging I originally wanted to have a simple box as my package, to represent a parcel, but then i later went onto wanting to use a kind of envelope as my design but not a usual envelope.

Here is one of my ideas for packaging.

Although i think this is a good idea and my 4 different areas of of inspiration could be placed on the four 'spokes' this design is not  really a net and is more origami so this is not 100% fitting to the brief so I will try and come up with another net i could use.

a bit more playing around..

After receiving feedback on the logos i had created i decided to have a go at creating more logos, well use the logos i had created to enhance them further.

I didn't want to make them too complicated so i took one logo and put a circle around one and a rectangle around the other

When i put my logo on my packaging i would like it to look as though it has been stamped on, like on a parcel or letter (like the image below) The reason behind this is because although the crips look sometimes is stronger as more effective i do like the rough and quick look to work as well.

and more..

After playing around with my logos in my sketch book i took them to the computer to have a play on photoshop and illustrator 

i then took them to the ever helpful facebook and got some advise and primary research into which people thought was the best 

I agree with all these comments and Joe's stood out the most as my original idea was to use my logo as a sort of stamp and make it look like it had been stamped on my packaging so I will have a go and using both circles and square to surround my logos

logos logos and a few more logos

Right so back to the important stuff, my logo! at first i found it very hard working with the letters 's' and 'w' but after playing around with the shapes for a while i got to terms with the rounded shapes and the curves the letter have. is started first with a few doodles in my sketch book and then chose a few i liked and started to play around with the colour

here are a few of my favourites 

i like both of these as they are smooth and delicate but are also clear, i think i prefer to later to the first though as it gives a better over all shape.

What type of designer am i?

Before I started with what should be inside my packaging i thought i would be a good idea that looked back at work i had done previously to determine which designer i think i am, i have always thought myself to be more of an advertiser rather rather than an illustrator but looking back at work I have done it the past it seems to fit the illustrative theme.

Here are a few examples of work I have done in the past and techniques I may use in this topic 

Colour...

Whilst trying to think about the designer i am I thought id have a look around to see what about me caught my eye and stood out more than the rest. One thing that did stand out was the colour 'red' i know it sounds weird but pretty much everything in my room is red! this isnt coincidence and it may sound silly focusing on a colour but ever since i was little if there was a choice of something in red id have it! 

This got me thinking more about the colour of my packaging, its one thing that is often over looked and just put there because it looks good! However because we have to make this about ourselfs i thought the colour of my packaging or at least parts of it should be a colour which people think represent me, so i asked about 10 people, some who know me well and others who i know only through uni, to see if the answers i got were very different. 

As i expected the answers i got differed from person to person, and as i expected the people who knew me well, associated me with the colour red, proving that 'red is my colour' and people who don't know me well at all picked a variety of colours which had no resemblance to me at all.. 

Update...

I havnt posted in 5days. partly dude to being in bed ill, which is never good, so i thought it was about time that I updated my blog with the progress ive been making over the last week or so. (or lack of due to being stuck on the always difficult question "What kind of designer am I")

Being stuck on this question is quite ironic as i've always been interested in the art of advertising and branding, so why when it comes to branding myself do i find it hard?

The part of the brief I am most stuck on is that our "Final package should contain your logo along with 4 key pieces of information. You can include interests, inspirations or skills these may be visualised typographically, illustratively or any other way you feel is appropriate. Information can be presented externally on the packaging, contained within or a combination of both."