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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.