Packaging Creation

After spending hours cutting the stickers into the right shapes and applying them to the USB's I was actually quite impressed with the way they turned out, I thought they looked quite professional  and the 5 designs matched each other quite well. After finishing those I began to develop the packaging for the devices. Because of how much the flashdrives cost me I was limited with the amount of money I could spend on materials to make them. I decided to directly link the packaging in quite a literal way to the installation. Using the material we used for the installation I recycled the wood to create a one of a kind package that not only showed the recycled nature of the installation but showed the value of the packaging because of its unique nature. Though the exterior of the box is relatively rough and recycled the interior was made to be quite fancy and valuable reflecting the valuable nature of the packaging as well as the audio as they were both "Limited Edition" creations. Because of the scarcity of the material I could use I could only make one of the boxes to house the USB's but overall I feel like I have created quite a neat way of representing everything in the project.

Below are some of the initial sketches of the lid and box designs.

Flashdrives Arrive.

When the flash drives arrived, The shape was a fair bit different than originally planned so I looked into a bunch of different printing places that I could possibly use to have my designs printed on the flash drives. I had heard an add on the radio about a company called Colour Worx that could supposedly print on anything, so I checked on their website to see if they had anything about printing onto USB's and eventually ended up ringing them. It made me laugh when I asked them if they printed onto USB's and they said no but luckily they new a person that did print onto flashdrives from a company called Logoprint. I rang them up and they told me it was going to cost me about 500 dollars and i thought hell no. Now however I have looked into sticker making! YAY! I have come up with a load of designs that will be printed onto the final flashdrives and changed and developed them to suit the new model.

USB Designing

After forking out a bit to get 5 USB's delivered to me, I began to think of the best way to design onto them. because I didnt have the physical devices it was a little difficult to design to fit the shapes, so I decided to go ahead and design onto some fairly standard shaped usb designs. The designs were intended to represent the installation in a somewhat artistic way but also to made slightly rough and sketchy at points as well. Below are some of the tests I did for the polystyrene themed design as well as a developed wrapping paper design I recreated.

YOUTHEDESIGNER - Concepts

My early concepts were based around the ideas of sustainability so I decided to look at using re-writable audio devices, either CD's, DVD's or USB's. The main seller being the fact that they could be re-used and recycled for  whatever purpose intended. It also added more value to the item which modern CD's are lacking, there is actually very little incentive to buy audio any more, most people are using portable mp3 players and getting music straight onto their computers is far more convenient for them rather than having to use CD's to upload to their computer before their device. I decided to use the USB concept partially because I spent all of highschool designing onto CD's and I wanted to do something different, but most importantly because of its portable nature as well as containing a different sense of value than that of the other discs.

Below are some of the initial USB ideas sketched out, as well as one of the other USB shapes I thought up

Project 2 - Semester 2

 The project we have been given this week unfortunately leads on from our previous project from the audio foundation.... I wasn't exactly happy with the idea of using the previous project as it wasn't what I would describe as particularly enjoyable but for this I guess I will just have to bite the bullet in order to make this work.
The brief we were given is called YOUTHEDESIGNER where we are tasked with creating a packaging system for an audio device for our previous brief, in my case the nightingale floor style installation.