Typography 101 – Box net Concepts

Week 4 – w/c 2/12/19

Initial Net Idea

Originally I was just thinking of having a square/cube box, which would be pretty typical for a box of a power tool, until I spoke to one of the lecturers, who suggested and showed me some more complex nets, which were not all made up of right angles.

Idea Chosen to Take forward

I decided to go with the less traditional option of making a box with different angles.  Part of my decision for a having box with unusual angles came from looking at cardboard boxes that had been squished, kicked or damaged, as I wanted to implement this kind of style into my design.

Experimentation with Different Forms

Here I sketched several box shapes, which all had multiple different angles on and within them.

Choosing a Shape

I went and choose a shape which had a large cutoff corner at the base of it and as a result of this the top part of the box would slightly overhang.  Later I then decided that the top left corner could do with another angle on it and so I cut the corner off it.

Promotional Poster

After being shown how to wrap text around an image in InDesign, I wanted to somehow implement this into my own work within a poster as I feel that having text right up against an image, not only is aesthetically pleasing, but it causes the user/receiver to look at the image/product first (making it the focal point) and then read parts of the text.  I also wanted the poster to have the same colour scheme and a similar style to the box net.