Closing Remarks

Welp, I've wrapped up my first semester at Georgia State and I'm happy to say it went very successfully. This all just makes me so excited for next semester and applying to the BFA program. I'll be keeping this blog as a personal art/design blog for a while. It's not ideal, but Blogger has been a pretty good medium to allow me to post and talk about my work. Speaking of which, here's my final packaging project:

(if you see them, just ignore the typos please, I was in a rush to finish this thing and typing blocks of text was honestly the last thing I was worried about. I'll be creating a new version of this for my portfolio soon)

Packaging

Pack-aging, it's what wolves do, right? They age, in packs? It couldn't possibly be anything graphic design related considering I've had over a week already to work on this project and I've come up empty-handed. I haven't even posted anything here, either. Unfortunately I've spent the majority of this week working, which is good considering for the past month or two, I haven't been getting hours at my job and I'm getting smaller and smaller paychecks. It's bad, however, because I don't have any time to work on what's important. In my free time this past week I've been mostly working on a side project for a student at my old university who is starting her own business. I haven't been able to dedicate enough time to my final project for Intro, so this week is going to be extremely trying (and tiring) for me.

I'm redesigning the packaging for Rotosound's roundwound bass guitar strings (pictured above), some I recently purchased and have been extremely satisfied with. Their design leaves much to be desired, however, relying on generic textures and an outdated logo. After much consideration and trial, I've decided to abandon the hope of creatively using the "old reliable" square-shaped guitar string packaging and I am instead going to be trying something extremely different, a unique hexagonal-shaped packaging. I am redesigning their logo as well.

Oh, and I'm listening to Event of Your Leaving, by Raum to try to keep from panicking about all of this.