Graphic Material

The design consultancy of Joel Shane, working across media from identity, book and information design to lettering and illustration, with a focus on quality typography.
His site is http://www.graphicmaterial.com/ but for some great silkscreen posters click HERE

Kara Renfro

Graduate school disc and business card for Kara

Delicate display

So here is a beautiful site and great packaging. Just shows what good design can do for a product. Check out the site HERE

Final Date

The date of the final critique for this class is Tuesday the 18th of December at noon-2pm

See you there

On to the next DUE DEC 3RD

We have a place called the "S+H bakery" It is run out the home of Sarah Harris in Orange VA.
She does all things baking. Cakes, deserts, goodies etc. On the side she also delivers and makes meals for the elderly and those who cannot make meals for themselves. She lives with her Husband Brad who is a firefighter and likes to build things and do finish work like windows, baseboards, molding etc.

The + in S+H can be taken as an & or as a plus whatever fits your design best it will most likely be pronounced S and H bakery.

So here is your assignment.

You are to make an identity for S+H Bakery
this must included but is not limited to
A business card
A letter head
An envelope
A box for some form of goodies (ie a box for a cake, brownie, or whatever you want) dimensions and idea of use is up to you. You must make the package by the due date.
And a mystery item of your choice

All of these will need to be printed out and READY for critique on Monday Dec 3rd at 8:30AM if it is not ready your grade will reflect this incompletion.

Clothing Store

The company is "Di Genova"

a up and coming clothing store that is into a wide varity of contemporary goods as well as vintage clothing.
everything from contempory chic mens vests and suits to fun colorful things.
They are looking for an identity that you can provide them with.
They are located in downtown NY city at
44 West 28th Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10001

They are excited about breaking away from the normal things you see.
it can be clean or gritty it can be classic or colorful but just make it different (the good kind of different)


Match box
?
?

ideas
Coat hanger cover
door hanger
stickers
paper coin purses
trashbags

etc

Look at Fruits Fashion

numbers
.4
1.4375
.4375
1.4375
.4375
2.125 wide Total height is 4.15

.4 + 1.4375
= 1.8375

1.8375 + .4375
= 2.275

2.275 + 1.4375
= 3.7125

3.7125 + .4375
= 4.15

baking up an annual report

Check out this guy HERE
Dezeen has a great post about the annual report you have to bake in your oven in order to read… 25 minutes at 100 degrees to be precise. Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić designed this annual report for food company Podravka - within the larger book there is a small booklet that is inserted inside the big one that contains the very heart of Podravka as a brand: great Podravka’s recipes. “To be able to cook like Podravka you need to be a precise cook. That is why the small Podravka booklet is printed in invisible, thermo-reactive ink. To be able to reveal Podravka’s secrets you need to cover the small booklet in aluminium foil and bake it at 100 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes.” The best part? For the imprecise or lazy… the book will BURN if overcooked, like any meal.

New Design Guy

Here is good illustrator. Click HERE for the Rest

first identity project

Identity Project One:
Do some research on branding theory look at people like Shepard Fairey

You must make a business card
envelope logo
and letterhead
for the following company

Finch Photographic Industries
(a restoration and contemporary portrait company)


this is due by 9 am next class.
we will view them on screen if you need to seem them together as a mock up
then print them out but it is not required.

GO

Great Olive Oil Bottle

Good packaging.

Altars of my Life

“Altars of my life”
Sarah Catherine Graham

Lives in King George VA
likes hummingbirds, gardening, playing make believe, lilac, reading, basket making, well crafted things, good tea, strong coffee and rocking chairs.

She was born and raised in southern MS but has spent her adult life moving all over the country every 2 years or less. Married to a Navy Captain with two children Daughter Abbie who lives in Florida (an entrepreneur who hand makes soap and other bath products, she left her architecture career to do so) and Daniel who lives somewhere in Kentucky and does something with stuff.
Mrs. Graham has run her own business as well as was a teacher of 4th grade as well as special education.
She is a cancer survivor, a mother figure to many, and an inspiration to women and men alike.

Think of questions we would like to ask her as we will have a chance to chat her up in class on Wed the 31st of Oct.

Tubes

Good use of stickers for a package

Packaging this would be fun

This stunt was for P-Mates a disposable, biodegradable product that makes it possible for women to pee standing up. To drive trial where the product was most needed (i.e. dirty public toilets), we reversed the men¹s and women¹s washroom signs at a local bar. Stepping into the washroom, women were met with signage on the floor, over the sink, the urinal and in the stall. With free P-Mate samples mounted on the signs and trial offer coupons printed on nearby toilet paper, it only took a few brave women to spark a chain reaction that spilled out of the washroom, onto the street and into neighboring bars.

Pig Cup

Hopefully there is no explination nessicary

Another Great Business card

Another Brillant use of Design

Boot leg bottles

Bootleg celebrates the creativity and style of a new generation of Italian winemakers by offering a collection of daring interpretations of classic Italian wines. Many Italian wine labels follow the usual formula of a hard to pronounce name and an illustration of the winery. We wanted to give a new twist to the tired cliche of the shape of Italy as a boot. The result is a sexy expression of contemporary Italian style that appears to wrap the bottle in skin-tight zippered leather.

one of the best business cards I have seen

What a great idea for a lawn company

Bubble bubble

Check out the Site HERE

Good Design Video

Check it out Here

B sides

what a great idea
check out the rest HERE

I NEED A MORSE CLUTCH

Click HERE for the site

plain box

Good design in animation

Check out the film HERE

Font use Common

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Toaster Design

The Radical Six Part Toaster rotates and heats the toast in single compartments. The compartments lift from the main assembly and swing open to allow toast to keep warm and crisp on its hot plates. The toaster is ideal for homeowners that are inspired by contemporary touches in their living space, making an inspiring centrepiece to at the dinner table.

Illustrations of greatness

CLICK HERE
Nice illustrations by Alberto Seveso

DO RAY ME

Cups that show the level of water required to produce the tones of DO RAY ME FA SO LA TE DO. A simple scale when playing the glasses. Brilliant, this could occupy the masses for years.