I did experiment with a few bold colours just to see how it looks, but I'm not the biggest fan of one bold pantone when I could do so much more with it.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Illustration template
As I don't want my tissue dispencer to be to plain I decided that the strip on the right would be perfect for some form of illustration, the silver pannel is going to be where the goin slot is going to be and everything behind that is free. I have just collected a few images from a book for diffrent approach ideas. I think I will be screen printing this on as well which I am very excited about even though I havent even designed it yet.
I did experiment with a few bold colours just to see how it looks, but I'm not the biggest fan of one bold pantone when I could do so much more with it.
I did experiment with a few bold colours just to see how it looks, but I'm not the biggest fan of one bold pantone when I could do so much more with it.
Realistic
After the crit I had a full understanding of what I needed to do, which is persuade young men to buy tissues via giving Kleenex a male sense of humor by making a kleenex machine with a sharp quote.
In order for this to work I need to be realistic and work out how many tissues is going to be held in the machine, which would then give a firm understanding of the size the machine has to be, also I need to work out what componants are needed.
As I am going to be makng the machine and photographing it in context I don't actualy need the machine to function or even store tissues so the inside of it will be hollow. The layout is vital in order to get a machine that makes sence.
So size wise, I measured up the size of kleenex tissues and then worked out how big the machine would have to be to store the packets lay on top of each other on their fronts which soon would build a tower.
The fist meaurements were estimates as I didn't actualy have a packet of tissues but I got one after so I could calculate how tall the machine had to be if it was to hold an estimate of 50 tissues in three chambers.
The main areas of the machine would be the buttons, the coin slot, the display photos and the area you would collect the tissues. from the MDF -medium density fibre-board I would have to cut a hole through the center bottom to make the actual slot as well as the coin slot for that matter.
I had thought about technical ways of doing things such as making a curved like draw that slotted in to the bottom, but then I thought against it, and thought about the fact that I didn't need to over complicate the design as it was just going to be a mock up.
I worked out that there were going to be around 50 packets in the machine, which then calculated to seventeen per three shelves which made a round number of 51 which therefore menat that my machine had to be at least a certain height.
These little squares are the tissues stacked up to scale which infact made easy maths as 3x17 high is? again 51. winner. Of course you will not be able to see the tissues so it isn't relevant, but basically that is what the layout of the inside should be like.
Of course the machine needed more than just tissues for it to work. it needed room for features such as the collection slot, coin slot, advertising, quotes and buttons. Which soon makes the piece a lot bigger when taking all these elements into consideration.
I then drew a neater mock up of the box which helped me navigate the size and layout of were componants should go and their size.
As design goes I then realised that the machine was bigger than it needed to be, so I then took the white space areas and erased the length by 12cm. that then made the measurements 65x41cm
This then allowed everything to look a lot more presentable and not lost.
So as I then drew the machine out again to half scale, and stated each cm square is worth 2cm to save the trees...of course I was an idiot and messed up the location of the coin slot so I had to colour that out
I also found out the location of the Kleene logo was a bit low down so I raised it up around 3cm to centralise the machine so it looked lovely.
As I have not done any type investigation as of yet I simply worked out that I need to fit he type into a 14x21cm box with 10 characters on top and and 14 on the bottom. Knowing the scale available is vital information for choosing the correct type face which best compliments the machine.
There is a stip down the right of the machine which I want to play with, as of yet I am not sure what I can do to it but I have contemplated bold colours, patterns and things along those lines. I am yet to work out how deep the machine needs to be, but I will be looking at that very soon and calculating everything. I hope to have that done by the end of today and I hope for the production to be taking place and finished for next Thursday allowing a few gitches in production to happen of course.
In order for this to work I need to be realistic and work out how many tissues is going to be held in the machine, which would then give a firm understanding of the size the machine has to be, also I need to work out what componants are needed.
As I am going to be makng the machine and photographing it in context I don't actualy need the machine to function or even store tissues so the inside of it will be hollow. The layout is vital in order to get a machine that makes sence.
So size wise, I measured up the size of kleenex tissues and then worked out how big the machine would have to be to store the packets lay on top of each other on their fronts which soon would build a tower.
The fist meaurements were estimates as I didn't actualy have a packet of tissues but I got one after so I could calculate how tall the machine had to be if it was to hold an estimate of 50 tissues in three chambers.
The main areas of the machine would be the buttons, the coin slot, the display photos and the area you would collect the tissues. from the MDF -medium density fibre-board I would have to cut a hole through the center bottom to make the actual slot as well as the coin slot for that matter.
I had thought about technical ways of doing things such as making a curved like draw that slotted in to the bottom, but then I thought against it, and thought about the fact that I didn't need to over complicate the design as it was just going to be a mock up.
I worked out that there were going to be around 50 packets in the machine, which then calculated to seventeen per three shelves which made a round number of 51 which therefore menat that my machine had to be at least a certain height.
These little squares are the tissues stacked up to scale which infact made easy maths as 3x17 high is? again 51. winner. Of course you will not be able to see the tissues so it isn't relevant, but basically that is what the layout of the inside should be like.
Of course the machine needed more than just tissues for it to work. it needed room for features such as the collection slot, coin slot, advertising, quotes and buttons. Which soon makes the piece a lot bigger when taking all these elements into consideration.
I then drew a neater mock up of the box which helped me navigate the size and layout of were componants should go and their size.
As design goes I then realised that the machine was bigger than it needed to be, so I then took the white space areas and erased the length by 12cm. that then made the measurements 65x41cm
This then allowed everything to look a lot more presentable and not lost.
So as I then drew the machine out again to half scale, and stated each cm square is worth 2cm to save the trees...of course I was an idiot and messed up the location of the coin slot so I had to colour that out
I also found out the location of the Kleene logo was a bit low down so I raised it up around 3cm to centralise the machine so it looked lovely.
As I have not done any type investigation as of yet I simply worked out that I need to fit he type into a 14x21cm box with 10 characters on top and and 14 on the bottom. Knowing the scale available is vital information for choosing the correct type face which best compliments the machine.
There is a stip down the right of the machine which I want to play with, as of yet I am not sure what I can do to it but I have contemplated bold colours, patterns and things along those lines. I am yet to work out how deep the machine needs to be, but I will be looking at that very soon and calculating everything. I hope to have that done by the end of today and I hope for the production to be taking place and finished for next Thursday allowing a few gitches in production to happen of course.
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