Wednesday, May 1

Keep working on thumbnails. Look to those inspiration sites for ideas. Have you product decided on. Make sure to bring your sketchbook to class with notes on Wednesday.

Monday, April 29

Redesign a box structure and a bottle. These can be put together aka a holder and bottle if you choose or can be separate brands. If choose to do separate brands the products need to go together in function. (ex. bathing suit / sun screen). The brands chosen must be a lower quality or lesser known brand (off brand)...we are trying to make this look as functional in your portfolio in possible. So in other words doing Coke or a really well known brand wouldn't look as real in your portfolio as doing a local or lesser known brand.

Due on Monday in job folder
RESEARCH
5 pages of research on box
5 pages of research on bottle
If same company for both 10 pages of research / check out competition / background on company / product line.

Due in job folder on FRIDAY (was Wednesday, but we will make it a little later to give you guys more time to check out ideas and decide on your product)
THUMBNAILS
50 thumbnails for box
50 thumbnails for bottle
25 thumbnails for box brand logo / logotype
25 thumbnails for bottle brand logo / logotype
If same company for both (box & bottle) complete 50 thumbnails for logo / logotype. You may do a computer font page of logotypes if this would help you thumbnail quicker for this section.

Hint on the thumbnails....go shopping. See what stands out on the shelf. Ask why? Check out bottle / box shape...could this fit your package and make it stand out on the shelf? Think about colors. Looks / fonts.

Here are some good websites for inspiration.
http://www.thedieline.com/
http://www.packagingoftheworld.com/
http://packaging-inspiration.blogspot.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/02/beautiful-and-expressive-packaging-design/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/packaging-design-inspiration/
http://www.behance.net/search?field=66

Worst Package in the House

Please bring the ugliest package that you can find the house. Can be from the pantry or elsewhere. Good job on the Captain Crunch assignment today. See you Friday. Also I have your campaign grades anytime you want to pick them up. Sorry forgot to give them back at the end of class before everyone dashed out.

Class on Wednesday

Great job in critique today! I forgot to mention that we will not be having class on Wednesday due to the Ceramics Workshop that starts at 8 am in the small gym on Wednesday. Those of you that are art majors are required to attend. See you then! Pass the word no AIGA tonight and Luke please post the information about the job on Facebook. Thanks!

Critique on Monday

Hi guys,

Sorry we didn't talk about this too much in class, but here's all the information you need for the critique.

Critique - don't have to dress up. Nothing under glass. Please meet at the bulletin board in front of the humanities suite (by the art department) in the PAC. We will then trek to your guerrilla around campus. Please bring a sample of your item for people to look at during the critique. Your poster should be up on a bulletin board either first bulletin board we visit or over in the SUB.

JOB FOLDER
Left Side / bottom is number one
1. Research - minimum of 2 pages
2. Thumbnails - please number the boxes individually
Guerilla - 25
Item - 25
Poster - 25
Logotype - 25
3. Approval emails (I know I was going to get your all to have something signed instead please have an email / Facebook trail of your conversation with the candidate. There should be an email / Facebook comment that states that it is okay to put up. This is just easier than trying to get an signature.
3. Design Summary

Right Side / bottom is number one
1. Poster Roughs (2)
2. Item Roughs (2) / photo with your brand
3. Guerilla Roughs (2) / photo of area with your item photoshopped in
4. Finals / Poster 11x17 / Item 11x8.5 color photo / Guerilla 11x8.5 color photo

See you at critique!

Wednesday, April 10th

Hi everyone,

Don't forget about attending tonight and or tomorrow's film festival. Go and support your director and go vote. Also we always sponsor a prize of best film campaign which the audience votes on. There are a $25 prize attached to the award. So get your friends to vote for you and maybe you can buy them ice cream? Prizes will be awarded on Tuesday night at 9 pm so I would be there just in case your film campaign might win.

In other news, contact your candidates quickly. Turn around your research, visual brief and thumbnails for your job folder on Wednesday. Please have a direction to head with your roughs. You will have okay these roughs with your client in order to finish your final. We will talk about the job approval form that they will have sign in order for your material to be put up on campus. See you Wednesday!

One more item - come to AIGA tonight at 5:30 pm. We need to finalize the poster sale materials. See you then!

Candidates are finally in

Hi everyone,

Again, even your professor has to deal with clients and delays...we finally got our list of students and who is running contested. Thankfully it just works out. Now again...due to the late nature of this I don't expect to have thumbnails and lot for Monday. If you get a chance to contact your client before class great but things are not getting inspected until Wednesday so you have some time to make your contact. Kind of rushes the back end of things but I have faith that you all will turn out fine:)

Here's the list with emails where I am not posting emails on the blog.
Junior Class Officers
       
President:
Aubrey Binkley /  Ms. Posey
Will Duncan /  Katie
Tim Zornes / Elizabeth
                                     
Vice President:
Josselyne Bustillo / Courtney B.
Morgan Kroeger /  Ethan

Secretary:
Kayla Ketner /  Megan
Doug May /  Courtney S

SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS
Secretary:
Beverly Delk /  Luke
Anna Goodman /   Hannah
Allison Pulliam /  Em

Good luck and yes even your professor is having to do this project with you this time.

Monday, April 8th

Hi everyone,

I will be pushing out the candidate information on here and your email as soon as I get it from SGA. In the meantime, please do 3 pages of research on your candidate and the position printed off for your job folder. Please have a visual brief prepared for when you speak to the candidate. Have this printed off for your job folder on Monday. If you can have 25 thumbnails of logotype, poster, guerrilla and item for Monday that would be great to keep pace of things but since you might not get a chance to speak to your candidate over the weekend we will have a check of these on Wednesday. Just remember this is a quick turn around on things so don't fall behind. See you Monday!