NET 3

So far....

My camera's battery is dead at the moment and I've left my charger at home....

these pictures were taken on my I-phone so the quality is not great but it'll have to do...for now

Right....so how do make this thing?

NET 2

NET 1

Test Type

A small change...

I've just been doing some brain storming of what could go on the nets.

Each of the net will have a saying on them and may be a fact supporting it as well.

I was thinking about these

• '...of what use for man to stand on earth and reach for the stars if he is standing up to his naval in garbage...'
• Waste is a design flaw (nothing in nature is wasted. It is only human who create waste.)
• designers make the world's most beautiful trash

FACT:

• .100 million tress are felled annually to produce the junk mail we don't' even want
• Today paper makes up more than 30 percent of the waste in municipal landfills, and 75 percent of the communications pieces we design end up in the trash within a year.
• 30-40 % of trash is discarded packaging
  

After careful considerations

I think it is more appropriate if my word was actually 'waste' rather than 'sustainable'

obviously, my good is sustainable but for this 'wrap it up' brief. the word is waste

Packaging words.

I'm packaging words.

This is what this is going to be about.

I've just been thinking about this too hard/ much.

Simplify.

3 packaging nets
with a word and an image

What am I going to do for it ?

I'm just going to package words. words that will have impact about sustainable design..

The image is going to relate to those words/ sayings.


I don't know if I'm doing this right but I really can't pick an image now so I'm going to figure what words I want on each of the nets

work out what I want on it

and then I will think of an image

that will work with all of them


The theme is going to be the same
the same concept
same message ( meaning )

but written in different ways

eg.

Waste= Design Flaw

Designers make the world's most beautiful trash

Refuse to Trash

We don't have another one of these out there ( earth )

Do less, with less

Destroy less, with less

Ideas? where r u ?

So far,

I thinking about a typographic packaging design.

but then again, i need to include an image as well. So, the design might be mainly type.

Type as image?

What does sustainable look like thats what i keep asking myself....I dont know!!!!

NOT trees dying, forests, water droplets, recycle sign.......

I don't want any Cliche like that but then I don't want to over complicate it.

May be the image doesn't have to be something...shapely? i don't know what the word is. Like, a motif.

It could be some kind of pattern ? or just A shape?

I think it'll be a nice touch if I'm using newsprint to have a hand-drawn style image?

its humble, friendly and just nice!

so....may be I should go draw something

Things I am thinking about

Stock :

used magazine? book? Newspaper....I don't know how they are going to print or go through my printer.

I have no recycled paper but I'm thinking about

unbleached newsprint?

I can get hold of that at the college shop...but I wouldn't know if its recycled or not..... hmmmm



now....size

i want to make it relatively small

we are sustainable. to reduce things and we like small things


Small is good

it saves paper. and money. and trees.

colour.......

2 colours plus stock.

Well, definitely not coloured stock as mentioned above.

I am tempted to work in black and white just so I need to use any colour but

may be I'll use one. What though?

that will probably be one of the last things i consider.....

Remembering how to design.....

Right,

So I've picked a word and it's going to be 'Sustainable'. I know I said that I didn't want the word to be something really obvious but the thing is. To sum up my 'good' the word sustainable is ( not only the obvious one ) but it is the one.

After trying to come up with a more subtle word for it I just realised that all of those words are what sustainable actually means to me. So , instead of coming up with words that sums up my project I was coming up with words that I associate to 'sustainable'

On the packaging I don't even need to have that word on it but just all the other words that describes it.


Now, the next thing....image

I have not yet chosen an image. I honestly do not know which image to use to represent my 'good' it would be ideal if I can just use nothingness as an image...but then it wouldn't be an image.

The reason for this particular idea is that i want to make this as minimalistic as I can....i want to use the least ink and the least materials. However, an image would mean more ink.

May be this is a nice challenge....
find an image that shows

simplicity
minimizing
sustainable

....ahhh this is going to be hard

What does sustainable design mean?

The word 'sustainable' can apply to any action that does not degrade the systems supporting it, therefore can persist indefinitely.

Its a solution

Its responsibility

Conservation of resources

Eliminate negative environment impact completely through skillful, sensitive design.

No waste

Survival

Sustainable Graphic Design : Design and production that consciously reduces adverse environmental impact as far as possible.

LEARN.THINK.ACT.INFORM.UNITE.



What does sustainable Graphic Design mean to me?

I think all the words that I wrote down in the previous blog post are somewhat
'perfect' as descriptions of the word sustainability.....they will probably go on the packaging , rather than the actual word 'sustainable'

now image?

hmm.... this is tricky

1 Word. 1 Image. This is really hard.

Word

• Sustainable
• Sustain
• Sustainability
• Revolution
• Waste
• Cycle
• Life
• Grow
• Eliminate
  
• Treasure
• Green
• Minimize
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Decrease
• useless
• Paper
• Responsibility
• Change
• improve
• limit
• unlimited
• limitations
• re-nourish
• nourish
  
• minimum
• engage
• sense
• environment
• revolt
• solution
• rebel
• reform

Image?? This one I'm still really unclear about. What does sustainability look like?

I guess I would have to choose my word first and then the image.

But would it be a drawing? vector image? a photograph? may be just a logo-type image?



I don't want to choose a really obvious word like 'sustainability' for this...its just a little bit too straight forward?'

but then again,...on the actual packaging I don't need to have the word I've chosen on it but what it actually means to me

So may be, it would be worth choosing what my project is really all about which is sustainable Graphic Design and then solve the problem of describing what it means to me through this packaging.

Wrap it up! (Granade brief)

The brief:

Identify, Select and Clarify

• Sum up your 'good' in one word and one image.
• Choose 1 net from each net group provided. There are five groups in total and therefore you'll end up with 5 nets in total. Choose three from there.
• Come up with 3 packaging solutions
• Take word and image and package it. Try and communicate that word/ image

Tone of Voice:

• Humorous? Serious? Informative? Persuasive?
  

Considerations:

• content ( which word? which image?)
• Colour ( only 2 colours plus stock)
• Font Choice
• Format and Form- net has outside AND inside. How does what you're working on go together with the format.
• Size? Scale
• Media? Stock?

Mandatory Requirements:

• 1 word and 1 image you're trying to communicate
• 3 packaging nets
• 2 colors plus stock

Deliverables:

• 3 Packaging Solutions
• documented design development- on blog

Studio Deadline : Tuesday 19th October