FINAL DAY! Time to display my work

Today is hand in day! I brought everything into uni today and set it all up on my desk ready for the examiner to see it. Fingers crossed I did okay :)

FINAL PACKAGING!

Here is the final design of my packaging. I added the cartoon drawing of BILL to the front, top and bottom of the box and think it looks much better than the silhouetted version. I also left the drawing white to show that people wont know which colour they get until they open it.

Final poster - Time to print

My A2 posters came today. Yay! I was very pleased with how they turned out. Luckily there was no pixelation on the final posters and I am glad that I can use them in my final show at the docks.

Cartoon drawing of the toy
on the sides of the packaging

Earlier this morning I spoke to Chris and Jake for the last time about my packaging before printing them all out. They were very pleased with how it turned out but were still not sure about the silhouetted image on the front. They felt that it made the viewer concentrate on that part of the packaging too much, and drew peoples' eyes away from the other patterns, images and the logo. As a result of this I drew a line drawing of BILL and made it look very cartoon-ish, like existing designer toy packaging such as Smorkin' Labbits.











Here is the cartoon styled drawing of my toy. I am pleased with how it turned out in the end as it took quite a long time to make it look good enough to be put on my final packaging. Now all I have to do it put it onto the packaging.

More book work...

Not long now until my final day! I have to make sure that I get everything finished in time so today I spent my time finishing any book work and documenting my changes to my posters and packaging.

Packaging - draft 3

Here is a finished version of my packaging. I changed the silhouetted picture on the front as some people couldn't tell it was a silhouette of the toy. I changed it to a picture of the toy face on, making it much easier to recognise. I also finished adding all of the photos of the toys to the side of the packaging, enabling people to see what toys they have collected and which ones they still need to get. I like this and am very pleased with how it turned out.

Packaging - draft 2

After a day of working on my packaging I have come up with this general design. I used a blue simplistic shape, just like the one on my posters. However, I have decided that it will stay blue on all of the packaging as blue was the original colour of Bill before I created the other 8 colours.

On the packaging I have put the title of the toy and a silhouetted version of the toy with a large question mark in the middle. This resembles the fact that people wont know which colour they get until they have bought the toy and open it. I have also added some personal messages about the toy on the back and bottom of the box. A lot of existing designer toys do this with messages like, ' This is not a toy! it is a work of art'. I liked this and added my own version to my packagaing. I feel that it makes the packaging a work of art as well as the toy.

Packaging - draft 1

Packaging is a very important part of my toy. The packaging has to be interesting to look at so that people would pick it up off the shelf. It also has to encourage the person into buying the toy, and since designer toys are expensive this is very important.

This designer toy packaging has cartoon-styled drawings of the toy in the front and colours and patterns relating to what the toy is; in this case it looks like a cake tin because the toys are based on cakes.














I wanted my designer toy packaging to be very similar to my posters, simplistic and eye catching. I decided that I could not have a different colour on every box as this would give away what coloured toy was inside, and I want the toys to be a 'suprise' for each person (they wont know which one they get until they open it).

Here is one of my first ideas. Since the platypus comes from Australia I used colours that reminded me of Australia (sandy colours). I also added a small photograph of my toy and it's original name. This packaging was made before I changed his name to Bill.

The green bubble on the front of the packaging was the part I would cut out and put acetate there instead. However, after making this packaging I have realised that I can't have acetate on the font otherwise people will see what coloured toy is inside.