wine progress (construction)

For this first box, I covered a cardboard cylinder container with decorative paper. I used PVA to adhere the paper to the container, and then covered everything with methyl cellulose.




For the second container, I bought a cylinder box from the container store made with birch veneer wrapped around and glued to the sides of wooden circles. I replaced the leather cord closure with black twine, placed transfers on either end of the cylinder, inside the flap, and on the outside. I'm lining parts of the container (inside) with black suede. I'm also making a 3-4 inch wide paper slip to go over the cylinder with black textured paper, and a cover for the button.

My experience with placing transfers on the bottle was actually pretty good. I taped the transfers in place and used a spoon to rub them down. I only had to redo one piece.

I'm also working on a wine bag made with plum colored paper (similar to the color of the shrink wrap top on the wine).

this is funny

miniature replicas of large objects are just funny.

also large replicas of small objects, like those huge pencils or those really big alarm clocks. I don't know why, but they just make me laugh.

I hope nobody gets as stressed as this guy before the semester over..

2 page layout directions

Continuing with the clean and simple look with these. I made illustrations for the first option (still working on a few more ingredient illustrations). For the second layout, I baked chocolate chip cookies from scratch and photographed them spread out on an old light box (used for looking at photo negatives). Thinking about adding some sort of texture in the background. not sure.

My article is a little wordy, so I might shorten it up a little.

Final Wine design

white transfer on a black bottle. The arm of the water wheel design wraps around to the back of the bottle where all the bulk type is. For the box, I was thinking of a wooden crate looking box with transfers.

Final t.o.c./ masthead

the line after the flower pot is not supposed to be there, so just ignore that.

masthead and t.o.c.

pretty simple design.

For the table of contents, I was thinking about the flow of information, starting with "Cover Stories" and continuing to the first article on the right side of the page, then moving down towards the "Features" and into the next page with the cropped photos arranged from smallest to largest.

more wine

thought I'd go for a diagram/mechanical approach with the bottom two designs.

torn paper label

So, I think I'm liking this one the best so far. I was thinking about ways to represent water flowing and thought that I could show that by layering pieces of white paper and tearing the bottom edges. I was inspired by images of walls with layers and layers of posters plastered on and torn up. I thought that idea went well with the rustic yet classic look that I want for the wine label. I'm going to rip some paper and scan it in to make the background of the label, or I might paste the different layers on the actual wine bottle. I'm excited about this idea.

a new direction

thinking more abstractly with these

more wine stuff

I went out to buy my wine the other day (Water Wheel 2005 Shiraz) and it probably has one of the strongest and richest flavors I've ever tasted in a wine, though I'm no wine connoisseur. There's a strong tobacco flavor in it. It was very interesting.

For the design, I worked on a 3d version of the water wheel and played with that. Then, I began to think about what other imagery I could use besides a water wheel. I thought about how it's grown and the flavors of the wine and thought I could reference those flavors on the bottle: plum/cherry/cedar/tobacco. If I made a set, I could have different illustrations on each bottle having to do with the flavors of each wine. I made a card with additional information and the bar code to go around the neck of the wine.

website progress

three directions (homepages) for the website. The photos. sample work, and logo are all shauna's. I wanted to create one really professional looking page (complete with drop shadows), one hand drawn, and one somewhere in the middle.

final magazine cover