Regis Cosmetic Cases

About 2 years ago, while I was still working at 161 Design, I was a part of a re-design project for Regis. It was a massive project, with lots and lots of revisions. I had to design 6 different cases, with exact specs, and a variety of fabric patterns for Regis to choose from. After about 2 months and many samples, Regis finally chose which design they liked best.

I had seen all of the finished products before I left the company, but I had never seen them for sale in a store, so imagine my surprise when I stumbled across them inside a Pure Beauty yesterday.

Here is one of the specs that I designed:


And here is the final product I saw in the store (after a few more revisions)

Neem Tree Farms Redesign

If you are one of the few people who read this blog, you know that I am trying to work more on my design capabilities, with specific focus on my type skills. I decided to reuse an assignment I had once in a product design class at MCAD. The assignment was to re-design the identity/packaging of either one of three categories: beauty/cosmetics, home-wares, or food/beverage.

I thought it was a pretty good assignment and process to go through, considering that's what most designers do every day. Always trying to one-up themselves, creating new and exciting work.

From experience, about 80% of the organic product companies have absolutely terrible design, so I figured that would be a good place to start looking. I came across this website. I feel that Neem Tree Farms has some really excellent products, but their design is terrible. I personally would be far more apt to buy a small, $8 bottle of shampoo if the packaging was totally boss. Don't you think?


Here are some of Neem Tree Farms products in their current packaging.


This is what I came up with. Perhaps I should try to contact someone at Neem Tree Farms and convince them to buy my designs... hmmm

Anyway, I hope you like. And as always, I'm open to any criticism you have.

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