The Occult Warrior League Toy Packaging

at top- inside of front cover                                          at top- back of box
at bottom- front cover                                                  at bottom- bottom of box

 
     side panels                                            at top- back of inside of box    
                                                                  at bottom- bottom of inside of box


This is a series of three boxes I created to be toy packaging in Design 4 at SUNY Oswego.  The toys were to be "Watchmen" inspired because I didn't want to infringe upon any trademarks by actually using the Watchmen.  In their place I created the "Occult Warrior League."  If I can find my photo of the completed box I will post it soon.  This box is also in the prism shape, but altered to suite the size, being just over a foot wide.  My main focus with these boxes was to make them a part of the toy.  Each character's box could be used with the character.  For "Inertia" the box is a rooftop, "Lode" a car, and "Phoenix" a castle.  Kids love to play with boxes and use them to be castles, cars, or hideouts and many other extensions of their toys.  This is a play off of that, taking that little extra step to give a kid the ultimate enjoyment out of their toy.  The first two layouts at the top of the page are in the way files would be sent to a printer.  The last box was portioned out onto different pages to suffice the capabilities of print paper sizes at the school.  For this project I created everything from the toy logo, characters, to the barcode, toy company and it's logo and a TV network to sponsor it.  It was a lot of work but I really enjoyed taking the time and having full creative freedom with every element.

Safari

http://www.oswego.edu/~lhughes1/lrh309/lrh309_actionEX2_final.html

This is a mini game I made in flash at SUNY Oswego.

The Hidden Cafe News nameplates

 

Adobe Illustrator

2010

These are four different nameplate designs using the same name Newspaper and same name Entertainment section of that paper.  I tried to get a different feel with each nameplate, as though they were for completely different papers.  The first one highlights exploration with the map height lines in the background.  The second has a nautical feel, using light and bright blues contrasted with a splash of red.  There is also a sailboat motif at center.  The third has an earthy yet modern feel, and the fourth is the most modern being something probably found on a website more than in print.

Prism Box

Adobe Illustrator

2006

This is a box I made for Graphics III at SUNY Oswego.  It's meant to be sent to the store in different sizes and be a sort of gift box for their product, designed for a small store called Kathmandu in Oswego, NY.  I got the inspiration for this box from a chocolate box my Dad brought me back from Switzerland.  It had a similar prism shape but was constructed differently.  I designed the box to be completely tape/glue free, it stays together sturdily without either when folded together correctly.

Kitteh Tesselation

  

Adobe Illustrator

2010

This was an assignment for Design at OCCC.  The assignment was to do a tesselation, an image in which pictures repeat like a pattern.  This kind of art is best know by M. C. Escher.  I chose fat cats and mice.  My inspiration was Gideon, a very fat lovey kitty.