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[editsbyhestia]

▬▬▬▬▬▬ GÈRARD RODRÍGUEZ𓃉 ( request )

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[mythhearts]

14 weeks of the semester is over which means it’s time to share what I’ve been doing! First up are my assignments for Advanced Packaging, where we have to take a brand or product to our liking and change the people that are originally advertised to someone else of a different group. Like mine, for instance, Monster High has always been aimed for young girls but for my assignment, I changed the target audience and have to make the dolls appealing for adults, especially doll collectors.

So a common solution and fun project the whole class did is to collaborate our chosen product with anyone or anything like a tv show, movie or like most Barbie collective dolls, a doll collaboration! And when I remembered what 2019 meant for us MCR fans and that became the theme or project for my assignment! How this doll collaboration goes is that Monster High will work with Gerard Way, to dress some of the characters as the rebellious rogues from the Danger Days album, The Fabulous Killjoys. The doll line consists of four dolls, each representing the members of the Killjoys and while they are mainly dressed in the original costumes in the album, Gerard will redesign them to be more fitting to the characters’ fashion style. This adult collectors doll line will be called as...

The FREAKY Fabulous Killjoys

The reason behind this collaboration is to dedicate the year 2019 for the MCR fans as they dubbed this year to be the Year of the Killjoys. So in a way, it's like the Back to the Future moment in 2015 but for us MCR fans! I had trouble deciding which ghouls gets to be which Killjoy but I went for Operetta to be Party Poison, Lagoona Blue to be Jet Star, Venus McFlytrap as Fun Ghoul and Viperine Gorgon as Kobra Kid. But of course there's no need to do all the ghouls for the assignment, so I just went for Operetta and as you can tell, I put in a lot of work and dedication in doing it!

Doing the box profile art is the more tricky part actually as I originally wanted to sketch it out on paper and do some light colouring or so, scan the drawing and use it for the box. But as I noticed that I don't have much time to do so, I changed to do so in Illustrator and refer to the official MH profile artworks of Operetta. Why I went for a simple box layout which is similar to a show box is to cause minimal damage to the peson unboxing the doll and the packaging itself. I've read that there were complains in regards of the style of unboxing so by doing so will be easier to the collector and a box sleeve is provided to not only act as extra protection but to build hype and curiosity upon receiving. The box design are the same designs as the Danger Days album and the inside layer of the packaging are album arts of every songs by this amazing designer on Behance, (You thought you could hide it from me! I was lucky to manage to find the source!!) Kevin Lau and this is the project he did.

And the second assignment is to create a paper bag to go along with the packaging. Doing a design for it is challenging but I came across an interesting shirt design from MCR so the design is based on that shirt grpahic. With a twist of course but as I found out that you can't really measure when making these bags, I just wing it and I've underestimated the size of the graphics. But the box fits in the bag great and I'm just glad how ot all turned out! It's one of my best and most fun works I've did.