Monday 22 November 2010

 Print finishes:
Embossing and debossing.. Embossed the image/type stands up from the page goo finish as can often detract from printing therefore cheaper! debossed is where it is pushed down the type i love this finish as it makes you interact and feel the type.
 Foil blocking: achieved by putting a foil onto a heated die onto a surface and pushing down which causes the foil to seperate from its backing.
 Die cutting: die cutting is where a steel borders press and push down onto the card and effectively cut it out! designers now use this to real images type underneath for e.g
 Varnishes:
  • PEARLESCENT
    Pearlescent varnish, when used, delicately reflects a whole gamut of colours, giving a subtle, luxurious effect
  • SPOT UV
    Perhaps the most “designery” of the varnishes available, spot UV can be applied discretely to areas of a printed page so that when turned toward the light, these areas become highlighted
 Spot colours: colours which are specially made cannot be achieved trough the cmyk proccess out of the gammut range most common use for these are if you want flourescent colours or metalic etc.

Demo Video For Pad Printing Systems By Printa Systems

Today ive been looking at packaging and how it works getting into the mind of the designer and begining to think how thins are done and potentially printed.


 The childrens packaging here interesting bright colours-expensive to print so dont buy the bottle this colour! how it works as a range fun for children front of product head dinosaur back the tail of dinosaur. be printing on a sticky cellophane and cut added to bottle/ pad printed onto it.

 Jam jars have the feel that there home made expensive feel just printed stickers for these 4 colour print



 Cravendale- milk? really ive never seen these type of designs on the cartons i think they have gone for a more objective fel recently with cows on the front! yet nice design simple each box has used duotones..


  think for packaging this cream is far too complex unsure where i shold be looking or what the product is?? possibly a hexographic print as there are a few very bright colours here!

 Simple and whats good about this design is that the photography is very effective within context grow your own and in a pile of seeds standing tall as if it has grown! The illustrations have come out well lovely vibrant colours i belive this to e down to very good software skills! hoping to improve mine.

 Lighthearted packaging again this is a god board you can see a range of products and the final image of it has a net in context. Really explains a story. simple colours black and bright shades and alot of white space. composition looks balanced. offset litho printed.



 I admire the rawness of the image above hand rawn cut out shapes on a recylced texture paper bold colours which are reversed front to back.



 The colours on these simple grey shapes really stand out and appear to be so effective on simple box packaging how design changes the appel of a product wonderful!! litho print die cut
 Printing on bags can be done in two ways screenprint onto ready made bag or print onto stock and hand folded im unsure which would be most cost efficent.
 I put these on here as they are nets to very interesting packages:



Found these on a pattern for print blog which is absolutley fantastic! and got me really interested in designing bas wallpapers etc. simple repetive designs could possibly do something like this for the tea bag tag designs.

 Oh my god seen these mages and was completely inspired so inspired i had to go draw a design out right away!! These arehand crafted and are just called paper cuttings if i wanting to achieve something like this in the print world as a finish i would have to get it sent away and laser cut which when i asked in the printers got told it is a very expensive method!! but by these results is so worth it! have to see how i get on with the laser cutter at uni.... hopeeful!! deffinatly be having a go at producing one off these in the future and framing it.







Greggs The home of fresh baking - Shop.mov

 it always confuses me as greggs adverts realy push this idea of fresh baking and the fact it is all made in the shop on the day yet all the branding does not reflect this all the people have told about this are shocked to know it is all made.!! WHY IS THIS??

Greggs The home of fresh baking

Friday 19 November 2010

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (English)

 aura y0ou must be thinking what the hell has this to do with my brief but this was the idea playing around in my head when designing imagery for greggs the vintage cafe feel with birds flying arounf putting the tea bags in your cup etc.. you dont have to do anything just sit back and let this fantastic world  carry on around you!!

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Influences to current imagery development

 i have put these on here as a lok the black designs on this background stands out and is easy to achieve.



 due to the colours used in this image and the effect it has i would say this has been screenprinted. i love screenprinting as you can use bold colours you ge a lovely texture and matt look.