
数週間前にGravity展のメンバーで友人の嶋谷くんから、彼の作品を入れるパッケージのデザインを依頼された。
嶋谷くんは『Snug Stain』というブランド名で、ハンドメイドで精巧なシルバーアクセサリーを制作している。
今回僕がパッケージデザインをした作品はバイクのパーツ(ピストン、スパークプラグなど)のミニチュアをモチーフとしたもの。
そこで、既存のパッケージのパロディー(?)でデザインしてみた。
一番大変だったのは、箱を「より汚く見せる」こと・・・!これが唯一の要望だった!
イラストレーターで色々なファンクションを試した末にリアルな「オイル汚れ」を作るのに成功した。
※全ての箱の「オイル汚れ」は微妙に違います!良く見てみて下さい。
完璧主義は嶋谷くんだけじゃないみたい・・・・笑
Gravity展第二弾が月曜日(10/8)から始まります。
Be there or be square(直訳:つまらない人間になりたくなかったら、必ず来ること)
皆さん、遊びに来てくださ~い。
A few weeks ago friend and fellow Gravity member Takeshi Shimatani recruited me to design some packaging for his jewellery. Takeshi hand makes highly detailed silver accessories under his Snug Stain label. The pieces I helped design packaging for are all highly detailed miniature replicas of motorbike parts, such as pistons and sparkplugs.
I went with the idea of creating parodies of existing product packaging. The real challenge was making the packaging look as dirty as possible, which was Takeshi’s one stipulation.
After playing around with some new functions on Illustrator, I finally managed to come up with some pretty convincing oil and dirt effects.
Please note that each box has different dirt!
Takeshi is not the only one who is a stickler for detail…
The Gravity show starts on Monday.
Be there or be square.










3 comments
johno says:
Oct 7, 2007
I love the spark plug packaging–absolutely gorgeous. Great work. You could sell this on its own!
Horrorwood says:
Oct 7, 2007
Thanks for the comment John.
As you know this is not the kind of thing that I usually do, but I am pretty satisfied with the result. This project also proved to be very useful as far forcing me to look beyond the basics of Illustrator and use my head a bit.
Hope to see you at the show.
johno says:
Oct 8, 2007
I’m looking forward to the show. I’ll be there. Will try to make it along today.