For my cereal box design I chose to make Trilo-Bites a pun inspired by the extinct creature. I was inspired to do this as I had pictures of cookies I had made that looked somewhat like them. In order to create the cereal I color adjusted cookies that were originally green and pink to be brown and shrunk them down to be cereal shaped. I chose to stay with a mostly neutral color scheme with browns, tans and greys and the green background because I wanted it to seem natural and earthy. I chose the title font I did because it reminded me of erosion and fossils. I made the back of the box a hidden object search as it went along with the idea of looking for and finding fossils. I really liked the way my project turned out. I think I did a good job of making everything look cohesive and not too busy or spaced out. One thing I would change if I redid this is I would resize circles and cereal on the furthest right panel and possibly add more text on that panel. I also would have liked to have my find the fossils graphic look more cohesive but I had a hard time finding images of fossils that looked similar. Another thing I would change is I would work to make the cereal color lighter, I had a hard time getting them to be a good color. I think the contrast between the cartoon images on the back and the realism on the actual cereal help bring the piece together. I would market this cereal to people interested in science of all ages. Overall I really liked the assignment and my finished product.
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