Sunday, December 16, 2012

Black Hole Light

This task is for us to use our imagination to design something environmental friendly, multipurpose and reusable for the future.
It's a light that can be a street light and home lamp, it has 2 buttons, 1st one is to use as a light, the second one is to use as a recycle trash bin, it shoots this black light to the ground or on the desk into a black hole, and you can throw any trash in it, it has an automatic recognizing system, it recognizes the trash if it's reusable , reusable trash will be sent to a center to be reused, tho non reusable trash will vanish in the black hole. and the light is in solar system that saves energy.






Packaging "Who Is The Tallest"

Packaging and labeling
Packaging is the science art, and tecnology of enclosing or protectiong products for distribution, storage, sale and use. Packaging contains protects, preserves, Transports. informs and sells.
This is the front side and left side of the game packaging I designed, the left side is How To Play with a bit of game rules on it to let people know what kind of game it is. Front side is a tall-building like logo represents the game's name, and it's the day time of the tall building, on the top it says "Fresh Game" instead of "Fresh Milk"

Back side and left side. Back side is the night version of the tall building logo, I cut the middle of the building and stuck a see-through plastic material for consumers to see what's inside. On the top, it says "EXP: TILL THE END OF THE WORLD" of course, a game won't be spoiled ever.

Back side and right side. The right side says"ingredients" which tells the consumers what's inside the packaging.

Right side and the front side.

I used CMYK colors to design this packaging because a game is supposed to be fun, colorful sight attracts consumers' eyes and makes the game look lots of fun in it, the whole packaging looks like a milk box because it suits the game's name "Who Is The Tallest"
Milk contains various nutritions, there's calcuim and vitamin D which helps people grow taller.
The front page and the back page have this day and night contrast reprents that the game is lots of fun that YOU CAN PLAY ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT ALONG!






I used the Game Stack'em's packaging and turned it inside out to color it on my own at first, but there was no space for the dice so I had to give up on the original box.



It's the same process to color this box as the way I made the time-dice, but I ruined the whole thing when I sprayed the clear spray on the surface. the color started to drip and fade, so it's better to spray one side and wait for it to dry up then spray the other sides, and always keep the surface horizontal not vertical. 






Then I came up with the milk box idea, and found a source on how to create a milk box online, and made my own mini milk box mock-up as an experiment. 
I had many ideas on the packaging at first.

Eventually came up with a milk packaging.


Then I started working on the surfaces.

I had this idea that the whole box will be a nerdy face with glasses and glassed could be see through material.



And came up with this idea that many many tall buildings and famous tall architectures on a see-through earth.

I measured the game itself and came up with the numbers on the packaging, and made another mock-up.


And then I sketched on the mock-up surfaces.


Eventually came up with the type faces and logos.

In this task, I've learned a lot, and I've experimented so many times that I know what my mistakes were and I won't have the same problem in the future.
Hope you enjoy it.







Games

This task is for us to create our own games, check it out.
This game is called "Who's the Tallest" for 2 players, the person who builds the tallest block in the limited time is the winner, there's a time-dice to decide the time limit, the longest limit is 6 minutes or 6 seconds, it's up to the players. there are 45 bricks in total, each player has 22 bricks to build and there's 1 extra brick which is for the player who finishes his/her bricks first.




I painted the bricks by nail polish with different designs.
Before coming up with "Who's The Tallest" I listed 10 different games.

The first solution I had was a card game or card with bricks.

I searched online on how to create my own dice and found the samples.

Then created my own hand-made time-dice. I sprayed clear spray on the surface so the colors look brighter.

Here is a stop motion I made to teach you how to play Who's The Tallest.



I took around 700-800 pictures to do this stop motion.

and here is the story board for the stop motion.


Stop Motion
Stop motion(also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continous sequence.
Stop motion animation using plastine is called clay animation or "clay-mation" Not all stop motion requires figures or models; many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect.