Magic Boards

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Envelope

The brief says that the pack has to be mailable so I decided that the folder containing all of the printed matter will be packaged in a black metallic bubble envelope. I ordered a pack of six 242mm x 330mm envelopes from eBay for £10.

I want to make the address label look a bit special so I bought some gold paper from Paperchase to print onto. These are some of the labels I designed. Its hard to tell what will look good on the envelope so I will print all of these out and photograph them to see which one works best.

Folder

This was the first folder I made for the magic kit. It was just plain and black. It also didn't fit the poster in correctly and was a bit crappy looking because I didn't cut the slots properly. So I decided to remake it. It looks a lot better now.

Here it is with the entire contents. I even affixed one of the badges to the side panel. When put together with the rest of the kit, the badge doesn't look so bad. I'm happy with how this looks now. However, the cover of the folder is still plain black and looks boring. I originally wanted to have the triangle logo on the cover, either embossed or with just a spot varnish to make it look really flash. But I don't have access to these facilities so I decided to do some paper cutting.

I wanted to cut into the cover and have gold behind it but when I tried it out, I realised that you only get the inner pattern, not the outer triangle so it doesn't really look much like the logo. Therefore I cut the logo out of gold card and will stick this to the cover.

Badges

I got my badges back from koolbadges.co.uk. They look really crap. It looks like they printed it on a normal inkjet printer. The text/images look slightly pixellated despite being illustrator files! They'll have to do though because the deadline is too near. At least these give a clear picture of how they would look if they were printed professionally.

Booklet Reprinted

Today I received the final copy of the magic booklet printed by lulu.com. Here it is with my design context book. The cover is on nice glossy paper so it looks really professional.

The main reason I wanted to get it printed professionally is because when I printed it in the dungeon, the bleed and margins got messed up so the text was far too close to the edge. Now the margins look how I intended them to. The only problem with the booklet now is there is one random white page at the back of the book. This is because when I worked it out to be printed in the dungeon, the backs of the cover spread were also printed onto. Because lulu.com don't print onto the back of the cover, the pagination got messed up slightly so they added an extra page. Otherwise, I'm very happy with the outcome.

Magic Website

This is the layout for the main page of the Maleficium website. When you log in it will lead to the news page and clicking the links on the sidebar reveals more links below that section.

Badges Update

www.thebadge.co.uk never got back to my query about getting the magic badges printed so I found another badge printing company called www.koolbadges.co.uk. I could tell they would be more reliable as they have an active twitter page. However they had a min order of £3.50 and then charge a pound for postage but now I'm getting a set of 4 badges printed for £5. These are the designs I uploaded.

It says it could take a week on the confirmation page so hopefully they're not too busy and I might get them in time for the crit.

Splash Page

Some layouts for the splash page of the Maleficium website. This is how it would look on the computer:

Magic Website Ideas

Some sketches of ideas for the Maleficium website. I've decided to have a splash page where you have to login so that not just anyone can access the website.

Letterheads

These are the letterheads that I tried mocking up on InDesign.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

The letters could be printed with this on the back:

 

Here is how my two favourite designs look with dummy text. Again I'm leaning towards the black paper but this colour would have to be printed digitally rather than using a black stock.

 

 

Letterhead Designs

I've decided to create a letterhead for the society. Because of the mail out nature of the pack it is probable that they will need to send out letters to club members. This will also act an intro to the pack explaining what is inside and why the person has been sent all of the items inside. By having this information on the letterhead, it means that I can make the packaging simple rather than having loads of text printed directly onto the box.

 

 

Magic Packaging Ideas

Here are some of the ideas I came up with to package the magic membership kit. The one restraint put on this part of the brief is that it has to be mailable.

 

  

I think I like the idea of doing it in a folder with a pocket best because its simple like the rest of the aesthetic, its mailable and would contain all of the documents with ease.

Badge Printing

Today I sent an email to a company that prints badges professionally called The Badge Co. I sent them the artwork I want printed for the magic society.

To get one 25mm badge printed costs £1.99. They only list up to 100 badges printed at £28.99 so if I make this into 300 for every member in the club it would cost £86.97 but this would probably be lowered a bit.

The website also says that these are printed using CMYK but Pantone colours are available on request. I want the gold to be a metallic Pantone so I asked for a quote and hopefully they'll get back to me. I will order one CMYK and one Pantone if possible as an example for my membership kit.