Creative Packaging.

Some truly brilliant packaging ideas:

Rubber Band Packaging

Nobilin Pills Packaging

Cookie Packaging

Butter Packaging

BREAK FAST Packaging

See the whole article here.

Alternative Souvenir for London.

I've been going through all my work I did while at uni and uploading them to my Skrapbook account, and thought I'd share some of it on here as well.

This project, which was done with a partner (Claire Brooks) was about creating an alternative souvenir for London.

We created the Genuine Collection - bits of real London to take home with you.

It features:

Whole Collection

Water from the River Thames

Gravel from Buckingham Palace

Pigeon feathers from Trafalgar Square

Leaves from Hyde Park

We bought the bottles but the rest of the packaging was created by hand and the labels typed on a typewriter.

Dissertation.

So, I decided on my dissertation title.

Investigate the impact of gender on packaging design. In particular, reference toiletries (perfume, razors, skincare) and determine what aspects of gender are evident in these products.

That title took me forever to word.

I tried to make it sound intelligent.

I'm not sure I pulled it off.

I handed all my sketchbook work in today (yay) and the dissertation proposal is due tomorrow morning and then I'm done!

Second year is complete.

I'm now a third year.

That thought scares me rather a lot.

I've got almost four months off now though to prepare for next year, try and get as much of my dissertation done as possible and get on with some of my own personal work.

I've got so many scrapbooks and stuff that I've never finished so they're pretty high up on my list to complete this summer.

And my dad's going to take me on some photography trips.

And I've really enjoyed the drawing aspect of my Illustration module so I think I'm going to make more of a point of carrying a sketchbook round with me and sketching things I like.

I have a Photoshop for Dummies book and an Illustrator for Dummies book. I've never used Illustrator so I'm planning to teach myself some stuff as well.

So even though I have nothing solid planned (except V Festival and a very possible trip to Edinburgh (which I'm extra specially excited about because it was where I was born and grew up)) I think I'm going to have a pretty busy summer!

Dissertation.

So.....I'm trying to plan my dissertation.

And I'm kinda stuck.

My first thought for a topic was packaging design, as its something I've always been interested and its a possible future career choice.

But researching this has somehow led me to talking about gender in perfume bottles.

I haven't had any lecturer feedback so far but the idea was suggested by my teacher Tom, so I can't be too far off a decent question.

I *think* I've got a tutorial tomorrow to discuss it, but they've messed up all the timings so I might end up going in and just having to come straight home again.

Hopefully not.

I've got a definite tutorial on Tuesday though so I will at least get some feedback before hand in next Friday.

I've also signed up for a tutorial on Wednesday but I might cancel that one and let someone else have it seeing as I'm being seen on Tuesday.

Oh its all so confusing.

My lecturers are rubbish.

Ach well, to bed. I've decided to get to the library for 9.30 tomorrow morning to get some work done before the possible tutorial at half 12. I never seem to be able to get anything done in halls.