Today we will taking a dieline (a shape that is flat and ready to be folded into a package) and designing [or redesigning] the package.The example on the left demonstrates how a flat dieline looks.
Note: Some packages may have panels that appear upside-down when flattened [depending on how the folds are made].
Remember to add important elements to your package. Include nutritional information if you are doing a food package, for example. The example on the right shows several key pieces for a package.
Once completed, you may want to create the actual package. Since we are doing a "box" package, you may want to get some card stock [something that will work in your printer] and print your dieline in color.
You will receive extra credit for a completed package design.
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| Cereal Box Template |
Remember when you are looking for photographic components (i.e. cereal, bowls, spoon, cartoon animals, or whatever) that you look for large images. It's much easier to reduce the size of an image without distortion than it is to increase it. As you have found, expanding an image makes it blurry or grainy.
If you're considering doing a cereal box, think about cereal names:
- ______ Loops
- ______ O's
- ______ Nuggets
- ______ Smacks
- ______ Puffs
- ______ Crunch
- Honey ________
- Sugar _________
- Crunchy ________
- Apple ________
- Spam _______
If you are interested in going the extra mile and trying a fancy cereal box font, check out this tutorial: http://www.dzyneo.com/sugarpuffs.php
Also, this image was in the iStock.com "Free Image of the Week" gallery:
Recently Adobe (the makers of PhotoShop) did a contest asking graphic design students to create an "Adobe Cereal". Here are some examples of what was created (I don't expect your boxes to be anywhere near this professional!):
You may find additional resources, dieline patterns, etc. on the Internet. You can do a Google Search for dieline, do an Image Search for dieline pattern, or check out some of the industry websites such as The Dieline (http://www.thedieline.com/).
