This week was exhausting and laborious. We discussed our next project, designing a tea box. We had specific instructions on the layer designs and dimensions of the three objects, the tea box, tea bag container and tea bag tab. Like the previous weeks, we utilized Adobe Illustrator for drafting our shapes and used various shortcuts to add in pictures. These were my results.
Composition: The materials I used to design these 3D shapes the same as the previous week, Adobe Illustrator and a Mac Desktop computer as well as a flash drive and the internet. Much like last week, the workflow of drafting these figures was very substantially quicker than physically drafting them but to envision the shape of the tea box to allow it within the dimensions that were assigned: 3x5x2 5/8 inches for the tea box, 1/4x2 5/8x3 inches for the tea bag container and 1x1 inches for the tea bag tab.
Craft: The assignment required us to create three different drafts, one for the tea box, the next for the tea bag envelope and the last for the tea bag tab. For each draft, we needed three different designs for them for a total of nine designs. It was laborious work in the beginning but once the workflow was achieved, it became much quicker. The process began by first drafting the designs in Adobe illustrator by making the outline of the shapes, including the tabs, with the pen tool. With the grid of Illustrator up and snap to grid selected, I drafted as I had done in previous weeks but this time, the cut and folding lines were on separate layers. Following from that, I would create a third layer and copy and past the line layers into that third layer. Then I would click on the outer layer and click the "Draw inside" option. Copying an image, artworks of mine, I then pasted it and moved the image to its desired spot. On a new layer, I added text as was instructed. I did this process for all the designs. Afterward, I exported them as jpegs and saved.
Concept: The concept of these pieces was to create tea boxes and dip our feet into the world of product design. While ours, especially mine, are rudimentary and amateur at best, it gave me the appreciation of just how much goes into designing a product's container or presentation. This coming week, we're cutting them out and seeing how it went. I look forward to it as always.
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The Tea Bag envelopes.
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The Tea Bag Tabs.
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The Tea Box designs.
Composition: The materials I used to design these 3D shapes the same as the previous week, Adobe Illustrator and a Mac Desktop computer as well as a flash drive and the internet. Much like last week, the workflow of drafting these figures was very substantially quicker than physically drafting them but to envision the shape of the tea box to allow it within the dimensions that were assigned: 3x5x2 5/8 inches for the tea box, 1/4x2 5/8x3 inches for the tea bag container and 1x1 inches for the tea bag tab.
Craft: The assignment required us to create three different drafts, one for the tea box, the next for the tea bag envelope and the last for the tea bag tab. For each draft, we needed three different designs for them for a total of nine designs. It was laborious work in the beginning but once the workflow was achieved, it became much quicker. The process began by first drafting the designs in Adobe illustrator by making the outline of the shapes, including the tabs, with the pen tool. With the grid of Illustrator up and snap to grid selected, I drafted as I had done in previous weeks but this time, the cut and folding lines were on separate layers. Following from that, I would create a third layer and copy and past the line layers into that third layer. Then I would click on the outer layer and click the "Draw inside" option. Copying an image, artworks of mine, I then pasted it and moved the image to its desired spot. On a new layer, I added text as was instructed. I did this process for all the designs. Afterward, I exported them as jpegs and saved.
Concept: The concept of these pieces was to create tea boxes and dip our feet into the world of product design. While ours, especially mine, are rudimentary and amateur at best, it gave me the appreciation of just how much goes into designing a product's container or presentation. This coming week, we're cutting them out and seeing how it went. I look forward to it as always.
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