Week 6

What I did

Monday: Spent [.25hrs] reviewing a link that Krista sent me on packaging!
Creative Packaging Solutions

Tuesday: [0] Honestly spent time with my family.

Wednesday: Spent [.5hrs] writing this post. Thursday is a much better day for me if you want to skip ahead.

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What am I doing?
This does not make me excited.
In fact I don't know why I'm doing anything.
I want to do something that makes a difference.
I want to do something practical,
I'm more excited about the poetic aspect of these things.
I guess that is somewhere to start.
Also look at Swoon
Wheat-paste woodblock graffiti art, I can't stop looking at it.

Thursday: I spent [5 hours] finding all this amazing inspiration below. Most of them came up in conversation with my peers about things that they came across relevant to my project.

I just discovered The Dieline. How come I never knew about this? It's beautiful...

Here is a story they did on Postcarden
, a postcard that functions with seeds as a little bontanical garden.

Atlanta Cupcake factory packaging design 

Screen printed images on natural cardstock

Mary Rosamond design for cd packaging.
This is an example of pacing poetic visuals and text on the surfaces.
Also it incorporates printmaking (screen printing) to get this beautiful print on a functional package. 

Rochdale Cider Label redisgned by 

I love the texture and relaxed mood the paper and print are setting together. 

Here is the Lite 2 go piece I had mentioned in one of my very first blog posts.

Pumma's "Clever Little Bag"
A fabric alternative for shoe boxes.

I kept the red one in my apartment all last year! I love them

My friend sent this to me too: Mechanicards

It seems kitschy to me, but I've done work like this in the past based on paper tension and gromets.

Brainstorm:
Your life package?

Spent [1hr] cutting a woodblock to play with layout on the box form I made last week for poetic packaging exploration. It is a fawn with drafting tools as legs.

I figured I'd carve anything and see how it works with the pacing of the folds. 

What I discovered

I am excited again. Today is a gold mine of inspiration. I kept finding things one after another. It felt great. I want to incorporate printmaking into all of this somehow, perhaps through branding. After looking at the examples I've posted above, I feel pretty confident.

I notice that didn't spend enough hours on IP this week, due to distractions of fall break. I need to structure myself to make sure I get enough done.

What to do, what to do

For next tuesday crit I plan to have the block finished, and printed on the template I used for my ziplock redesign. Lindsay and I also made plans to visit Matt Shlian's studio on Monday afternoon to present our project ideas with him and see if he has any resources. Also, he is working on a project with scientists on some

"exciting...biomimetic, innovative..foldable...design helping the world...".

I'm curious, so I contacted one of the scientists to get involved and see what kinds of things they are working on.

Lindsay and I also have plans to do a 'paper folding session' together in the IP studio next week.