For the past couple of weeks in Product, Promotion, and Packaging the class had worked on the completion of creating matchboxes for a restaurant that had been assigned to us while using elements found throughout the restaurant to convey a certain theme. My restaurant had been Three of Cups, which is a moderately priced Italian Restaurant with a lounge and bar below it. The pictures items that I used to represent the restaurant were a brown tin ceiling of the restaurant, rock band stickers pasted on the ceiling of the lounge, brick pizza oven, candles, pizza, and swords.
Originally I had made a digital layout to create the concept of my design, but as I played around with it I realized that I would prefer to just hand draw it as I did not like the flat look of my prints. I had recently been following a Youtube channel called DramaticParrot who creates beautiful illustrations of cartoons and Disney characters using color pencils and decided to give her method a try.
The trickiest part of this project was probably sizing. that round matchbox worked out well, but I had a little trouble when it came to the pizza box. My first version wouldn’t stay close; probably because the tabs were not the best size. So I decided to play around with belly wraps. I then got the idea to make a second pizza box and use a vellum paper as the belly wrap and draw the image of the candles and stove onto it so it’s as if it turns into a separate packaging. I definitely like this design better.
Here are links for my process of layouts and inspirations:
This process was a lot of trial and error, but overall I like the last results and appreciate the process it took me to get the piece to where it is.
