Step Right Up, See the Amazing Circus...Boxes!

Welcome to Cirque de Lecture!

For the final project of Graphic Design, we had to decide to make a box for a product for children. So, after discussing for a few minutes, we unanimously decided to design a package that  had something inside in which all three of us had as children, stuffed animals! So Katie Arpin, Danielle Sleigh, and myself wanted to do something clever while boxing the stuffed toys. But then Katie asked us if we had seen the Animal Crackers circus box design. We looked it up, and it was a wonderful design of a circus boxcar with animals peaking out through barred doors. We decided that it would be perfect for a children's toy box! The color palette would be yellow, red, and blue, as the primary colors are both simple, and fun for children to look at. The animals we chose to have boxes are the wolf, the fox, and the lion. We chose the three in order to show variety of the animals, not just doing circus animals for our box. So we got to work immediately!

The Fox

The Lion

The Wolf

Designing a Logo

So my job on the project was to create a lion logo for our circus. So I looked up old circus posters of lions, and decided to do a lion in profile. I chose the orange and yellow, as children recognize the form of a lion in cartoons from these designs. I checked in with my friends on the design, and they agree that its simplicity was admirable about it. The wild mane of the lion was designed with the pen tool within Adobe Illustrator, creating a new shape, then combining it with the shape constructor tool. So the three of us kept consistent tabs on ourselves so no one strayed from the goal of designing the project with glee. Danielle designed the box die lines, bleed lines, etc. Katie worked on the actual look of the box on the outside. We finished early, so we decided to add bars that are see through bars in the box, and even added a silhouette of each door of each animal on the back door. 

3-D render on Illustrator

We test rendered it and it looked beautiful, but the print was messed up due to the print shop messing with the size of our box. but we pulled through, with our cooperative skills enabled and we believe it was beautiful!

Afterword

This final project and last hurrah for graphic design I believe went beautifully. My friends and I designed a realistic, beautiful box that could look like it belongs on store shelves. I would change the logo a tad, but all in all, our work I believe is exemplary. I will continue to carry on the legacy of the graphic lessons I have and use them in my animations. This year's been great and I can't wait for more!