Leona Maneechak

Year 1 BA Illustration and Visual Media Student


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  • Consumer Research

    To decide what product to create for my consumer I need to research what issues new parents face and what can fix that. I have decided to focus on parents of human babies, although I did briefly consider think about exploring pet or plant parents. I also spoke to a parent who experienced postnatal depression…

  • 27.2 Art Direction

    Art direction intro – Kalina Pulit Art direction is about communication, its about building a particular aesthetic for a purpose. You present content to a group of people by creating a communication-based experience. Illustrators often work with art directors even if I don’t pursue it as a discipline. I should consider: how does my illustration…

  • Prop Research

    A Prop is any item or object that is used to help create a scene, support a visual concept or message, or add to the overall mood of a photograph. Props add visual depth to a photograph and will be essential for photographing my packaging. It will add context to my photograph and strengthen the…

  • Photography preparation

  • Packaging development

    This is how I developed my design/illustrations for the packaging. These are the initial ideas as seen in earlier sections of my blog I attempted to trace a photo I took of my cardboard net but it didn’t work so I used templatemaker.nl to make one with the correct measurements and it worked much better…

  • 23.2 Studio Coaching – making prototypes

    I started to decide on the measurements of my packaging after creating the basis for design. Initially I created a paper test without thinking of measurements. I then decided what I could use as a pretend product I used those measurements to form the final sizing. I took pictures of this and made mock ups…

  • 20.2 Lab Studio – product development

    This is another lesson I did at home. I chose to focus on the connection of water and new parents housing little creatures/ nurturing and growth. I chose to depict imagery of an adult creature with a little creature/ human to display family and home. In this one, the water houses several creatures but the…

  • 13.02 Lab Studio – Consumer Profile

    I did this class at home because I was still doing the Layered Worlds project so this is my catch up work. Semiotics is a new word to me, despite doing product and packaging design before. But in essence, it is about how meaning is created and shared through imagery. Communicating ideas is big with…

  • A new project..

    I wasn’t in for the briefing of the new project because I was working on submitting the VPEP project. Anyways, I suddenly felt a bit neurotic so at 2am Ive decided to watch the briefing and make notes. I then wrote that up into a checklist. So i can keep track if I am meeting…

  • Layered Worlds Final Pieces

  • Technological Advancements Research

    A utopia has perfect technological advancements and in order to research how technology could’ve supposedly advanced i need to look at the most recent discoveries and advancements. The one I first think of is AI, it has really blown up recently being used in Photoshop, ChatGPT and other platforms. There are lots of ethical concerns…

  • Experimenting with Digital Brushes

    In order to hit the knowledge criteria for my project, I wanted to get a deeper understanding of the tools I will be using to create my final images. I know that I will be using procreate, so I looked at the brushes I use primarily. I did some lines of these to compare the…


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