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Packaging Development...

Postage Bag

For my first postage bag I used the collage created for a postcard to see what it would look like. For the background, I used a photo of old white painted wood and used a brush filter on it to give the washed out effect. I then drew a transparent rectangle at the bottom and place the logo in the centre. I also put a white rectangle at the top where the package seal would be and put the website url in it.

I then made the top rectangle and the photo collage slightly transparent to enhance the washed out look. I also decreased the hight of the bottom rectangle to make the logo seem more on top. I added a triangle and dot pattern above and below the collage. I also changed the background to a more solid wood with the same filter through it.

Here I made the website url caps. I also added an angled drop shadow to the top rectangle to make the seal seem more realistic.

For my second postage bag design I used the palm photo I took as a background and placed a transparent rectangle at the top with an angled drop shadow. I drew a transparent circle in the lower centre and place the logo in it. To give it some detail I drew white swirls coming out of the right bottom corner.

I decided that I didn't like the swirls so I removed them and made a new triangle pattern which I really like instead. 

Here I enlarged the logo to fill more of the circle. I also duplicated the triangle pattern twice to make the two bands thicker. I put the website url in the top rectangle as well.

For this postage bag I used a washout blue wooden background. I drew a the top transparent rectangle for the seal and another down the bottom and placed the logo on the left.

I then drew a mandala type drawing for the centre using then pen tool on Illustrator. I tool I used ofter creating this was the with profile to change the style and with of the pen.

Here I centred the logo and added small anchors from my logo but in white to the tips of the inner petals. 

I then changed the background to a washed out white wood as I feel that the blue it to strong. I added a brush stroke filter to it as well. I also added the website url to the top in caps.

Here I added a drop shadow to the mandala to make it more visible against the white background.

For this design I use a washed out wooden back ground with the brush stroke filter. I then drew a zipper out of shapes and using the pen tool. I placed this at the top as the seal.

Here I created a small pattern in navy which I duplicated all along the photo strip for detail. I also made the photo strip slightly transparent. 

I then drew a white transparent circle behind the logo to make it more visible and darkened the colour of the pattern.

wrapping Paper

For the wrapping paper I wanted a brown paper look to it but also with a print over the top. So I firstly cut out a large piece of brown paper and hung it up in the room. I then took a photo of it and loaded it onto photoshop where I enhanced its colour to make it more lively.

I then took this photo of the palms and used the magic eraser to remove the white and make the background behind the palms transparent. I then placed the image on top of the brown paper.

Here I removed as much white tinge off of the middle leaves as I could to made it completely one colour.

For this wrapping paper I drew a pineapple on Illustrator completely black. I then grouped all of the shapes that made the pineapple and duplicated it many times to make a pattern out of it on the paper.

Here I then added more pineapples to the top and bottom gaps and used the crop tool to cut the pine apples to the paper.

Similar to the pineapple paper, I drew a pair of bikinis on Illustrator and placed it on the brown paper and duplicated it to fill the sheet. I didn't continue with this design as I didn't like the look of the swimwear on the paper.

I decided to do a design the involved my logo, so I duplicated and rotated my logo to fill the brown paper.

I then rearranged the logos so they fitted better on the sheet. I also filled the gaps on the edges and used the crop tool to cut the logos at the paper.

Here I removed the logo and decided to just use the anchor instead. I placed them all side by side and every second one I rotated. 

I then placed the logo in the centre and added a strip of black a white photos to the bottom

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