I have created this site to be able to show and share things I do and enjoy doing.
This post is introducing my Skin Care Packaging Portfolio.
In the past posts I have devoted few posts to skin care packaging. In this entry I would like to summarise it and put it in one place.
For this new post I have designed a Mead Drink Advert Poster. I was aiming at something for a magazine and etc.
The Ancient Greeks drank mead. Vikings were known to have indulged. In old Celtic and Germanic cultures, it was a hero’s drink, something sweet to gulp down gallantly after slaying foes. And there was Friar Tuck, famously.
But for 600 years or so it was cast aside in favour of beer, wine, and all other alcoholic beverages besides. In the last century, it had slipped away almost entirely, constrained to quiet monasteries and odd pocketed communities on rugged isles.
But mead is very much back on the bar. In the last few years it has gone mainstream and sales are up. English Heritage says it sells a bottle every ten minutes. Not bad for a simple ancient alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water.
Today, some suggest cult TV shows such as Game of Thrones spurred the resurgence. Out of flagons the heady beverage is swilled. In Ridley Scott’s 2010 Robin Hood adaptation, Friar Tuck flogs his home brew to the merry men.
I don’t aim that high as Game of Thrones, but wanted to create something quite modern and contemporary.
The style of the advert is slightly different than the one I have create earlier. This time around I was aiming at something bit more somber.
The wooden figure at the background is quite traditional in some countries. The village folk did try to make their bee house more interesting by a wood cuts such as this one. I liked it very much and thought using it would make the can look more interesting.
In addition I am adding t-shirts featuring the image as used on the can.
At the end I would like to add a magazine advert.
A spring has definitely arrived, which is delightful. For this post I have decided to create a poster for The Chelsea Flower Show.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show,[ is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. Held at Chelsea since 1912, it is the most famous flower and landscape gardens show in the United Kingdom, and perhaps in the world. [1] The show is attended by members of the British Royal Family and attracts visitors from all continents.
Highlights to the Chelsea Flower Show include the avant-garde show gardens designed by leading names with Floral Marquee at the centerpiece. The Show also features smaller gardens such as the Artisan and Urban Gardens.
At the moment I am in favour of vintage look. I create this poster from flowers illustrations not from the real photos.
I wanted to give more style option. I have created some variations in the style. Here I am using photographs.
After watching a trailer on RHS website featuring interviews with the participants of the show. I decided that a sharp angles are not always the best.
One of the topics of this year how is gargening for well being. This idea told of one of the gardeners to create something which would let the visitors to explore the garden more intuitively rather through designed paths I have created few more versions of my poster.
The colour used for the background of the posters are always colour picked from the photos. I am aiming for colour harmony.
The challenge here is to create something with text and photos without either of them overpowering the other one. I also didn’t want too many photos which would disturb the simplicity of the poster. I also struggled with placements of the logos. I resolved the issue by placing them on bottom right side.
The Chelsea Flower show is very visual and I feel photos are very important part of the poster. I felt I have to include those and they need to be relatively big in size.
Over all I am happy with my designs and might do more later on.
For this post I am trying to follow the same theme. I have done a beauty products advert for women and now I have decided to do the same for men.
Thy style of the advert is the same, just the product and colour combination is different.
After creating this one I discovered that the word shampoo is too close to the graphics. The colour were also too ininteresting so I decided to change that too.
These adverts are usually used in the magazines. I wanted to have mine in one of those too.
For this post I have decide to continue with my packaging theme. I have the products, but I need to advertise them. I have created some mock-up adverts which would go into magazine or something similar.
Everything had been created using Adobe Photoshop.
After posting the advert I discovered I can still improve so I changed the paragraph to justify last left and also made the bottle bit darker.
Art is always work in progress and I see the design in a same way.
Now the real thing, the actual magazine.
Anthophila is scientific name for a bee.
The Honey bee is probably the best-known bee around, but over 270 species of bee have been recorded in Great Britain. Honey bees and bumblebees live socially, led by a queen and serviced by male drones and female worker bees.
Solitary bees tend to be smaller and their family unit is made up of a single pair. Although lots of solitary bees can be found in one area, they operate alone. Bumblebees are distinguished by their large furry bodies and species include the black and-yellow striped Garden bumblebee and Red-tailed bumblebee. Solitary bees include mason bees, leaf-cutter bees and mining bees. The Wool-carder bee strips hair from plants to weave its nest, while the Red mason bee lives inside hollow plant stems and holes in wood.
Since 1900, the UK has lost 13 species of bee, and a further 35 are considered under threat of extinction. None are protected by law. Across Europe nearly 1 in 10 wild bee species face extinction.
The outlook for bees right now is quite bleak – and their drop in numbers is a sign of the plight of the natural world as a whole. Across society, we often undervalue nature and what it does for us. The truth is, if we want an economy that provides for everyone’s needs in the long term, we need to look after our natural environment. Our politicians need to understand the importance of protecting the natural world – and protecting bees as key players in it. We’re optimistic we can make a difference – see what you’ve already helped us achieve so far.
For this post I have prepared a business brochure. Whole design was created in Adobe InDesign.
Nothing would work without excellent images. Unfortunately I am not as good with a camera as other people. I want to thank the authprs of the image and the http://www.pexels.com.
Essow Kedelin
Juhasz Imre
In this part of world where I live we have winter now. I know in few months from now on it will be different, but now the weather is cold and grey. I was thinking about creating a summer holiday flyer or it doesn’t have to be summer, but somewhere where it is hot.
This is my flyer evoking warmer climate.
