Packaging Design through analogue experimentation

Overview

“Once I have completed the generic skeleton of the cutter guide, I will incorporate the visual elements of the design and the assets provided by the client. ”

In this video lesson Pata Studio addresses the topic: Adobe Illustrator: Creating the 'Cutter Guide' and Preparing the Design 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Packaging Design through analogue experimentation. Learn how to use analogue techniques to tell a story through your packaging designs..

Partial transcription of the video

“So the next thing is to create the folding lines. I'm going to lock this bleed line because I won't need it for a while. So the remaining parts of our cutter guide are the safe areas and the folding lines. So now I'm going to create them. As a next step, I'm going to select all the pink lines, all the cut lines. Don't worry if you cannot select them all at once. You can select them later. So I'm going to unit them now. Sometimes when I still have separate pieces here, even though I unit them, I just cheat and add fake lines, fake rectangles. Just connect them like this. And then I remove th...”

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Course summary for: Packaging Design through analogue experimentation

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (17)
• 332 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 43m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Art Direction, Graphic Design, Packaging