Christmas day is almost here and I am excited to go home to Tokyo. I really want to see the Isetan Department Store window display in person before it gets changed after Dec. 25. After being in a class about Exhibit Design, I’ve become especially interested in window displays. The Isetan windows currently show scenes from a Christmas story, illustrated by Finnish illustrator Klaus Haapaniemi. There is even a website that goes along with the store windows, but this is only viewable until Dec. 25th as well. Please hurry to take a look. It takes viewers through various scenes of the enchanting story.
Archive for December, 2009
Isetan Window Displays
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Package Design Competition: Kaffee & Kuchen
Monday, December 21st, 2009The fall semester of my senior year has quickly come to an end. The last few weeks were really busy with final projects, making process documents, and with RA work. I’m exhausted! Now with the snow storms in New England, my flight home was cancelled so I’m stuck in the city for a few more days. So with this extra time in my dorm room, I decided to enter the Dieline Package Design Contest with one of my projects from the Package Design class. Here are the pictures I sent in.


The project focused on creating an identity and package design for an imaginary German-style bakery in Boston. The bakery’s name, Kaffee & Kuchen comes from a German tradition of enjoying afternoon coffee and cake around 4 PM, and suggests a cozy and warm gathering with friends. The bakery would sell traditional German cakes, cookies, and offer seasonal baked goods for holidays. In addition, there is a cafe corner inside the store so that visitors may take a break from their busy day and enjoy afternoon coffee and pastries.
For the project I created three types of cookie packages. The largest is a gift box that holds an assortment of cookies. The smaller box with a tapered top would hold individual types of cookies baked fresh in the morning that would then be packaged and sold the same day. The third package would be a small cardboard shopping bag to fill up with any mix of cookies and sweets a customer would choose from behind the counter.
Winter
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
As fall is transitioning into winter, the days are getting shorter and chillier. The other day, from our studios in the Design Center at school, the sky became a beautiful watercolor paintings of oranges and yellows. Just yesterday, Providence saw the first morning of snow.

Now with only a week left in the semester, I’m really busy with finals and getting all process work organized. It feels like an endless cycle of building models, sitting by the computer, finishing details, making back up, photographing and staying up late into the nights. Just…a…little….bit….more!
Manners Nov/Dec
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Here is another update on the funny Tokyo Metro Manner posters from their website. The make-up one is from November, and the drunkenness poster went up today. As the holiday season rolls around, let’s hope for good public behavior.

