Drawing Inspiration From Around Sheffield

Interesting Type

This post is all about the art, objects, craft work and sights that interested me when I visited the city of Sheffield.

As soon as I got of the train I was drawn to this bill board which was advertising a arena tour of Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds". It was the type face that I liked because it perfect example of what I had in mind for my "Telling a Story on a Box" experiment. It seemed to have a steam punk vibe to it which fits well with the old worldly sci-fi theme of the musical.

I think I will print this off to use it's style to apply it to my experiment of telling a story on a box.

Materials & Techniques

These selection of gifts gave me an insight of the varies materials that could be considered for my project. The outer packaging was made of a black textured card which gave it a unique quality from the first touch and the small intricate details of the laser cut lettering (Denver's Design) made it stand out from the norm. Inside was a selection of place mats made out of wood with intricate patterns cut out yet again from a laser cutter.

So how could I tie this information into my own project? Well it's all down to the narrative that I create for example, if I was to create a narrative for a game say on pirates, then I could use wood as material for a pirates chest gaming box set. I could create a collectable beer mat made out of wood that could have been lifted straight out of one of the games enviroment.

Thinking along the lines of figures which seem to be apart of many gaming spacial edition packagings. I was ruling this idea because of the limited time and resources to actually craete a figure until I saw these wooden structures below. Yet again I they seem to be laser cut because of their inicate detail. They have shown me that I don't have to make a plastic figure, they have shown me that I can think out of the box when appoaching my gaming box set collectables. 

This little novelty by "Ridleys" caught my attention because it had a distinct retro feel to it, this I beleive was down to the choice of materials that was used for the pakaging. These days everything seems to be packaged in a shiny printed card but decades ago, I would imagine that those types of materials where either very expensive to produce, or they weren't even around.

This could well be a very important peice of information to learn from. To add a further authenitic feel to my project, the choice of material would have to fit within the time period.

Finally, I had to include this box, It was perfect example of what kind of outer pakaging I could create. I could imagine opening this to find a collection of gaing gooddies with a game. I could even etch in a design ontop which could turn out well.

I think the main point of this peice of information is to make sure that I use materials that are related to the theme and to make sure the theme that I choose doesn't go beyond all the resoureces and time scale that I have.