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Photographed product

Christmas theme
The gift wrap design displayed and wrapped round a large cube gift box, with ribbon accessory.


I am very pleased with the turn out of the Christmas themed gift wrap, product photo shoot. I have taken close ups focusing on the pattern, they have come out with a lot of detail, even the slight shimmer on the ribbon.
If I was to photograph again I probably wouldn't wrap the ribbon round all sides of the box as it has covered a lot of the pattern up.

These photographs do well to demonstrate, no matter which direction or angle someone chose to wrap the paper the design will always appear to be the right way up and not upside down.

Oh I should mention this is printed CMYK on fire proof paper stock. I thought fire proof would be most appropriate for Christmas wrap because people usually place their Christmas presents under a light up tree which can be a fire hazard. Extra paper around the presents would just help full the fire, if caught alight. However this would not be the case with this design.
The type of stock is also thin enough to wrap and bend easily around 3D objects. Whilst staying flat and crease free on flat surfaces, such as the sides of this box.

Photographed product

Wedding theme


I should have straightened the gift bag handle out. Perhaps in blue instead of yellow, or pink. Perhaps I should of had a shot of some one holding the products to give a better sense of scale.



I did well to balance the roll of paper like that, it took a while lol. The contrast is a bit too high.

Wrapping paper branding

2 meter roll

Scales

Design for folded A2 sheet

Design for large roll (W420mm, L 1500mm)

Wrapping paper development (Wedding theme)

In both crits people have mentioned they like this spotty design. So I will be printing this and apply it to a 3d object to see how it looks in use. Then i will consider applying it to further products, gift bags, tag labels, it might work nicely on tissue paper .

I've been looking at confetti patterns for the wedding themed paper. The designs haven't turned out as interesting as I thought. So I'm going to do some more research and head back to the drawing board for a more interesting and appealing design.

Snow flakes

In the previous designs I think my snowflakes have been working well so I have been experimenting with them. Interesting idea, but in the designs above I think the Gaussian blur is to extreme.

Owl and penguin gift wrap.

Looking back at my design context blog I found this sweet vector 'owl' gift wrap print. I thought I'd have a go and do a Christmas version, so instead of owls and leaves I've used penguins and snow flakes.


made from...


I have tried incorporating this penguin vector into my previous design development. However I think the styles are two different and clash. I think these penguin characters would appeal more to a child market.

Some more experimentation

I wanted to create more of a hand crafted feel so instead of using the default basic vector line I changed it to a charcoal texture.

I'm happy with this rain dear pattern, although it has no obvious repartition, I think it works well with the rough hand draw style of vectors. I think the colour works quite well too, perhaps more towards a female target market.
If I was to print this design and wrap it around around 3D objects the imagery would start to appear upside down if placed at different angles.

The designs below are horrible! Just some examples of trial and error i did before I came up with the design above.

I'm still working on the colour scheme to make it appear more in tone with Christmas.

(Christmas theme ) part 2 penguins?

Wrapping papper design development (Christmas theme)

At the moment I'm generating the vectors i'll be needing to create the patterns with. I haven't decided on a colour combination yet, but once I've got the shapes and patterns sorted for the three themes I'll use colour to tie them together as a set.



This grid didn't work as well as I wanted.


Here are a few more layout ideas using repetitive patern










These designs are the best so far, however still need attention their colour combinations and layout.