Stem brief

Final stem

Here are the final products for the new range of beauty products, stem.

I'm pretty happy with the outcome of the packaging. I started with the cream labels, which expanded to the other products. It's very versatile and can easily adapt to the different formats.

I came across a slight problem when it came to putting the soap packaging together.

Soap?

I'm going to expand the stem collection, and cover other products can be found within the brand name.

I thought to start it off, I'd look into create soap boxes.

I've been trying to come up with an appropriate size for the boxes to be. I don't think they should be too big, but then again, not too small.

A quick mock up here, I used the same measurements for each side of the box. I didn't realise at the time that two facing sides had to be smaller!

Altered

I've been working on getting some nice little illustrations ready to apply to the stickers. Like I mentioned before, they look ok, but really quite bare. It's something I really enjoyed doing with my biscuit brief, so I thought I'd have another go at it.

A few are a little difficult to see because I've dropped the opacity down a little as I wanted them to be quite subtle. Still though, I think they look a lot better than before, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they look like once printed!

The patterns were originally going to be placed on the coloured part of the sticker, but I had difficulty budging the white border around the drawings. I think in the long run, having the pattern on the white part works better. They may have been a bit of a distraction from the type. Nevertheless, I'm happy with where the pattern is now anyway.

Flower sketches

After printing out my initial stickers, it came to my attention that it was gasping for something else as it looked very bare and minimal.

I've drawn the flowers each cream will smell of, and will use them somehow within my artwork.

I've never been happy with anything I draw, but I've found out I love this kind of rough illustration.

I'm very excited to get in scanned in and get working with it.

Stem Creams

Just a few quick mock-ups of some labels I'm working on for scented body cream. Still very work in progress.

I do like these, but they feel very bare. I need to work on the type, and I think I'm going to have a go at some illustrations to use.

I will take into account the base of the tub, and design that too.

I think I'd quite like to extend this, to cover a range of products. I think it would all work really well together.

Stem

I'm working on designing labels for tubs of body cream. I've come up with the name 'stem', because the creams will come in a variety of flowery scents. I thought the name was not only appropriate, but catchy and just worked nicely.

I've been trying to design the logo. From what I've seen, looking at existing body creams, the logos have been extremely simple and bold.

(logo sketches)