Packaging Product Final

Well, I decided to make a package for a candy I am making for friends for Christmas, called Buckeyes. I used raindeer (Rudolf and his girlfriend) as the sides that the corners connected and candy stripes in pink, green, brown and white for the other sides. Then I added funny information at the bottom.

Packaging product

I scanned this pistachio box and considered doing this, but I decided for Xmas i am going to maake some candy presents. Paige cleared it so that I can do the chinese food box for my own candy creations presents and make it a product myself.

Packaging ideas

I like these fun packages like the purse and the ketchup characters. Make them seem like 3 dimensional little people or something. I have been playing with the chinese food package idea and doing something cool, but I dont know if that will go anywhere. Another idea is for some type of candy packaging or a Big Mac box/burger box......Another idea is the Unicef box. We got one last year and trick or treated for UNICEF and actually made like $22 for their cause. I remember the box they sent in the mail was kinda neat-o, but ugly.

Final Product

I scanned the soldiers/police men because I couldnt get a good picture of them. Tired to make the beak and eye yellow to emphasize the hawk eye part. Printed a pic, drew it, scanned, then drew more in photoshop, added gradient, a spray brush. Made the soldiers fight the hawk, with the band's name in the beak like he is eating it, or saying it. The starry night was just a happy surprise and added some stars. Felt like the type fit good for the event.

Some Hawkeye stuff they have had in the past:

Hawkeye Pierce Inspirations

James said the origin of the band's name came for his own last name, the character Alan Alda played , Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H (who got his name from the Last of the Mohicans in the show), and also represents a dying breed, anachronism in the modern world, ghosts of the past, the displaced. Standing your ground is a fundamental concept in country music. He also said he is not totally against me using a hawk's eye.



I was thinking of doing a less graphic version of a hawk eating something. Based on what James told me about the name origin, I want to incorporate the saying "STAND YOUR GROUND". I was thinking the Hawk could be eating a toy soldier and the other soldiers could be fighting the hawk. Like fighting chaos, that references the army character, the standing your ground, the hawk etc.





I was thinking I could use birds in some of my graphics/ type words. I also found some soldiers that spell letters. But I also want to put the band's name in the Hawk's eye. It might be a black and white sketch.

I really like this hawk image, might sketch it for the background of the poster.



I like this one, its kinda cartoon-y, but I think I am going in another direction now.

3 Events, narrow down.

Ok my 3 events are:


Hawkeye Pierce Concert Event: Nov 27th Twangfest, Nov 28th the Earl, Dec 12 Red Light Cafe, Jan 2nd The Highland Inn

The 10 th annual Indian Festival Powwow at Stone Mountian Park


Or the Atlanta Audubon Society bird Walk at Piedmont Park


I would like to do the Native American one with some silhouettes of dancers/ tipis/ smoke maybe creating the words. We'll see how that goes! Or Hawkeye Pierce since it's someone I know and maybe they can use it. ;)

Event Poster

Here are some event posters I like.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Worked on this project for several days. I had to get rid of some of the elements because it was REALLY busy. I am proud of it and think it came out well. I have red, white and blue colors for the American flag. There was a lot of elements of the book/movie about the 1960's and 70's cultural movement and challenging authority. On the text I distorted, I added red, White and blue lights to reflect the Vegas lights. The actual Vegas sign is a photo of a magnet I had from a trip to Vegas I went on. I sketched/ traced the police car/ the convertible and Hunter in the drivers seat. The billboard was reflective of their hwy journey and was my idea for the book summary. I purposely made the road converge at the spine of the book. I felt like it could lead the eye to the title and the entire road did not have to be black to insinuate its purpose. The cactus pictures came from a picture I took of the cactus outside the Arts and Humanities building. The sand was a artistic film grain. When printing, the help desk guy told me it was very reflective of Gonzo journalism, which was a type of journalism invented by Hunter S. Thompson. This made me feel like it was very successful, and my intention when creating it. I felt like it was my personal version of my own interpertation and a combination of the previous book covers.

Bridget

Project #3: Book Cover

Project 3 is a book cover. My books is: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The book is about a journalist who goes on a trip to Las Vegas with his attorney to cover the Mint 400 race and some type of federal gun convention. Parts of this story are true. They are chasing the American Dream... They abandon their work for the use of drugs, trashing hotel rooms, hallucinogenic trips from cocaine, mescalin, alcohol, LSD, and pot included animals with human characteristics and gives the viewer confusion about what is reality and fiction. I would like to incorporate the highway and a conglomeration of line drawings in my cover.
The book was written by Hunter S. Thompson and the book illustration was done by Ralph Steadman. Steadman's (the skull and American flag) book cover and another I found are below...We cannot use images from magazines on this one, so it is going to be a real challenge for me to create something original.

Project #2 Greenies ads, collage

Final cut, can't decide on the last 2...!

This one reminds me of the pink berry one I liked. Looks like a berry.