MATERIA (Part 3)

Finally finish the PDF booklet that accompanies the MATERIA Wine packing project that I have been working on for my Intro to 3D class for quite some time now.  It feels good to finally have it completed, it was becoming a larger project that I had anticipated every day that I was working on it.  I feel very at peace with my color palette, typographic system and how the design speaks what I wanted it to about a “Neo-Classical” design.  Having to create the package, as well as the design and apply it to the package’ form was a complex task that took me an exuberant amount of time to complete, but in the end it seems as if it all came together very nicely.

Lessons I’ve learned along this project:

1. Wine bottles are much larger than I realized
2. Some people have a very very large misunderstanding of design
   (including Officemax employees)
3. Color Jack is a handy tool online for color palettes and helped me find the hex codes of the colors I wanted faster than experimenting.  Google it.
4. Pulp board has a side thats better for scoring
5. There is pulp board
6. You have to over print edges when applying the design to the package so it overlaps
7. Illustrator skews the dimensions of things if you use the rotate tool
8. There is literally a bajillion types of wine, and very few of them have good design
9. There is a bottle of wine from 2004 that is worth 1,000 dollars

That is all really, I am sure there is more but thats my little list of interesting things I came across working on this project. If you’re interested in seeing more, let me know.  I’ll post a few more pictures, or larger versions.  Now I have to get back to my Sophomore Review preparations.