Continuing Along

Here are some photos from my show that I took. Wish I took some during install and after deinstalling... minor incident happened with my shelves but everything worked out in the end.

To further along with all the stuff that I have, I have decided to make a product catalog to advertise the products. Posters were a nice way to display it, but I wanted to make a book specifically of these designed packaging (would also make a nice separate print portfolio).

This is just the cover and idea of how I want the magazine to be. I will be taking nicer product pictures to use, along with new images to go along with each products.

Posters

Here are the posters for each product. I also started printing the boxes for the products and assembling them. I realized the paper I am using is thicker than I expected... so I am slowly figuring out that so the folds will hold and the boxes will stay closed. 

Posters for Products

I have been trying to figure out how I want my posters to be for awhile and was kind of stuck. I didn't want it to be a repetitive design of the product and packaging so I have a various ideas of what they could be. I realized that many poster ads for products sometimes don't make sense. For example some have an image of an animal or a scenic view and somehow it is tied to the product.

I remember doing a project in Using Images where we would put and image along with a phrase...so it is relatable to what I am doing now. I have came up with two ideas so far. I could use stock images and also take photos. Another option would be using memes. The products I have created are based on problems in our modern society today, and memes are very popular in our culture today. Not sure about it, but I thought I could have some fun with it!

Since my glass shelves are 8x10, the posters will be 10x20 banner size to align evenly together. Also here is a plan of how my installation will be with a corner wall space.

I was thinking how I would incorporate my process into the show so I thought of having two white shelves with my herbal boxes I made last semesters (grey boxes). The other side will be the 7 products I made.

Things are happening...

I made all the mock-ups for the 7 products I want to display. I sized them and made the packaging for them to fit. Eventually I will make the packaging thicker in order to hold each product. For now it is just printer paper to get an idea and feel of each product.

I ordered a double set of bottles as 'testers" for people to hold and touch. Now its just picking out the small things to fix and adjust to have them be as perfect as they can be. I am also working on posters for each one which will be 14x20.

I also ordered my glass shelves... (I just need to pick them up) and slowly things are coming together. I am hoping to incorporate my timeline from last semester into the show to have some sort of background info. Maybe a small book?

Some titles I have swirling around for my thesis are:
- Twisted Quack
- Essential Remedies
- Solutions to the Modern Society
- Believe in the Quack

More like remedies? not "drugs"

Here are two more I have created. In total I will have 7 different products. Slowly I am revising them to make sure everything is perfectly aligned and sized to fit the bottle and be readable. I want to make boxes for the bottled products (hopefully to lessen the amount of info on the label since the bottles are smaller).









After I make everything for the products, I hope to make posters to go along with each one. I also made a layout of how I envision my work to be displayed in the show.

Amy's growing drug cabinet

So this sketchy website that I ordered my bottles from arrived. Bottles are actually really nice so I decided to print out some of the labels and tape them on to see how they would be. Now that I have the physical object, I can make these packages and labels to size. Some are accurate to size and some need a bit of a tweak.

Pills bring joy

This week I started making physical mock-ups of the products I want to create. I also changed the names of some of the products I created to make them sound more like actual products. I have also ordered some bottles for the products that will have labels instead of a box.

Here are two products (which we all seen already) but I have added more information to them so they are not so empty.

Here is also a label for one of the bottle

Changes, Posters, and More Drugs

Slowly I am creating more drugs, but to keep things in a more systematic form I went back to the six I have created so far and revised them a bit. Eventually I want to print out each one and see how it would physically look, but for now I just want to create as many as I can and slowly go back to adjust things to keep the language consistent and just have a good set that can fit together.

Besides just having the physical product, I made posters to go along with each product. Some are pretty blank right now, but I figured I could have a general feel and layout of how the product and poster could go together. I found it harder to create a drug when I thought of the physical, therefore I have two new drugs but I started making the posters for them first.