The Goodlife Recipe

It has been a while, but things are going terrific in school. I have been involved in all sorts of projects, fictitious and real. One of the fictitious projects I have been currently working on is for my packaging class. We are assigned a food product to repackage at the end of the 9 weeks, then we have these little 1 week challenges. This is where we are assigned a certain themed product that we have a week to design and produce a critique ready package. This past week we did our first, which was based on animal food (Dog, Cat or Bird). I chose to do cat food and use the brand The Goodlife Recipe. I have posted pictures of the end result, which I as well as my instructor and classmates seemed to be pleased with.











Packaging is quite a rad direction in design. People pass this stuff everyday and someone has to be in charge of doing this work. Considering dabbling in this after school. I am also currently working on a freelance project of designing an album package for a local musician in the Atlanta area. So I am pretty excited about that as well.

More to come including work with Fernbank Museum of Natural History for a Gold exhibit coming in September. I am working with the photographer's group from school for the design work of their gallery being set up along with all the collateral with it (Peachtree street banners, commemorative poster for the exhibit, postcard sets, photo book, etc). Life is quite exciting right now but very busy. Just trying to keep my head above water.

No more summer breaks :(

So I officially started my fourth quarter of grad school today, and what a day it has been. It should be a really cool quarter. I am doing mostly hand crafting classes to work on some of that skill, so it will be nice to get away fro the computer some. Here is my new schedule:

• Creative Strokes - class where we will be hand illustrating typography into a calendar. It will be really interested and we already began learning calligraphy and hand script.
• Packaging - focusing on the design of product packaging. I hope to be doing ice cream, but it is not a definite yet.
• Bookmaking - focusing on hand binding books. We will be required to create various books for other classes so it should definitely be interesting.
• Criticism and Design History - Now, this class is basically the motherload class of this program. It is taught by the president and is on Friday mornings at 6:30 am. In this class I will be developing several projects including a wine bottle set, logos, and the infamous chair design project. We are to design a chair that is to represent us and our life. I put some pictures below for you to check out to see what I mean. These are promising portfolio pieces and I am really excited about doing so. Hopefully it won't be too expensive to produce.






Should be a good time but very challenging, which I am very ready for. I hope all is well and more to come!