Berlin

I have just spent a few days in Berlin. I really enjoyed myself. Heres a couple of compulsory tourist photos:

The Brandenburg Gates

The Reichstags

We timed the trip so that it was at the same time as the Pictoplasma Animation Festival (check out the Pictoplasma website). This was quite good timing as we are about to start an Flash animation brief. A lot of the animations were really amazing. Some worked because they were so simple, whereas others worked because of how complex the animation was.


This one is by Ginny Robertson and Garth Jones, and was an entrant for the E4 sting competition. I like it because it it so simple. Go to Ginny Robertson's website for more info.

We also attended a lecture with 2 directors from Studio Soi, a German animation studio. Although I don't intend to try for a career in animation, it was still very interesting. The thing that i found most interesting and inspiring is that all of the founding members were a group of friends that went to art college together. Setting up a business with friends is something that i would really like to do. Check out Studio Soi's website.

Berlin was really interesting in general. There was graffiti every where. We found a few really interesting shops and galleries that were basically in run down buildings and squats.

This was the entrance to a really cool little book shop that sold lots of german art books as well as homemade books and zines.

This was a building that had various different artists' shops and exhibitions.


We spent a full day at the zoo, which was amazing, except all the animals were really angry and trying to escape.

Heres a few photos from the zoo:







I took more photos at the zoo, to see the rest click here.

I didn't eat a meal for the first 2 days i was there, but we managed to find a really good vegie restaurant on the last day. Everyone went out for a meal there, which i thought was really nice of them.

The Simple Food Company

I have finished the Design4Print brief. Unfortunately I cant put photos up yet as it is being marked, but ill put some photos up as soon as i get it back.

I made 3 pieces of packaging that would be part of a much larger range. Everything would be made (if it were to be mass produced) with 100% recycled stock from Paperback (www.paperback.coop) and would be printed using vegetable oil based inks as they are better for the environment and the printers health.

Here are some of my final designs. Please bear in mind that the crisp and olive labels would be printed on slightly off-white and quite rough stock, and the biscuits are on quite a brown stock, so the 'feel' of them is completely different.

The front of the biscuit packaging.





And the back.
The box would be fairly normal looking, except the front would be slightly convex and the back would be (equally) slightly concave. This means that the box is a bit different, yet is still constructed from a relatively simple net and is still easily stackable on a shelf.

The label for the jar of olives. It would reach about 3/4 of the way around the jar.






And a close up of the front.



The crisps.



A close up of the front.



Originally, I was going to make normal crisp packets, however I decided to make a round tub instead, as crisp packets aren't recyclable.

If your interested you can view my Rational for this brief, and my final Evaluation of the whole module (from summer until now).