Over all evaluation

Over all evaluation

Just like my zine project before, I've really enjoyed working on this project and testing my artistic skills by working on a commercial and faux-company based brief.

I thought that working on something that I've never tried before could be a great way to test myself and build up a good range of commercial work for my portfolio. Designing packaging and interior layouts was quite difficult for me since I've never tried to tackle anything like this artistically before.

If could do anymore for this project, I would have liked to have designed and made my own cups, plates and cutlery as well as table clothes or patterned aprons. These are things that I intend to tackle in the future as I'm always trying to challenge myself by working in different fields.

I would also have liked to have visited more cafes or diners since a lot of my research was sourced online. I couldn't' afford to visit many cafes or bakeries during this project.

All in all, I'm happy with what I've produced and I'm proud of what I have achieved by pushing myself to try something new.

Stickers and gift tags

Stickers and gift tags

I've also made some gift tags and stickers with my cafe mascot and pattern designs. The tags I made were printed onto thin card and would probably be attached to the handled cake boxes I've designed.

I also created some small stickers. I've printed some onto two types of sticker paper, matte and glossy.

Interior/furniture concepts

Interior/furniture concepts

For the interior of my fictional cafe, I decided to colour the furniture in pale, pastel colours and the furniture I've drawn looks cozy and 'shabby chic' style, which is what I wanted the inside of the cafe to feel like. I kept it looking slightly small since I've noticed that most chain brand cafes are small in size.

Man-eating cake papercraft box

Man-eating cake papercraft box

While I was search for templates for my cake boxes, I found a small template for a cake slice shaped gift box. I used this template to design and make a man-eating cake gift box out of card.

(Above: Template and design)

(Above: Finished box)

Cafe staff shirts

Cafe staff shirts

The staff shirts I designed are supposed to reflect the pastel and angel and demon theme. I made two variants, one angel version and one demon version.

Cake box designs and construction

Cake box designs and construction

Using free to use box templates I found online, I've designed and constructed my cafe cake boxes which also features the repeated patterns I designed.

I've used three different types of box templates (one a wide handled box, one a squarish handled box and a typical folded lid cake box with viewing window) just to show some kind of variety in my cafe's products. The box templates I've created are featured below:

I began construction of each of the boxes by printing them onto A2 card paper.

And here are the finished boxes!

A zombie ate my cupcake !

A zombie ate my cupcake !

'A zombie ate my cupcake!' is a quirky recipe book by Lily Vanilli which shows you how to make gross and gruesome horror-inspired cakes and biscuits, such as skull cookies, bloody glass cupcakes and marzipan beetles.

(Above: Bloody bleeding heart cake, made with red velvet sponge and cherry sauce)

The cakes and sweets in this recipe book can look disgusting and horrific to some but they also look like they would be a lot of fun to make, plus both kids and adults would enjoy how skin-crawlingly great these spooky sweets look, which is sort of the same edgy appeal I would want to use in my artwork for the fictional cafe to also attract an adult market as well as the younger market.

(Above; Gingerbread graveyard cupcakes)

This recipe book inspired me to make another repeat pattern reusable print. I digitally drew up two cakes covered in icing, both with sharp teeth. I also coloured this print in pastel colours just to keep with the cafe's colour theme and also to offset the creepiness of the man-eating cakes.