Project: Create a water bottle label, choose a name from the list of gods and goddess'.

 

 My inspiration was ancient Rome and pomegranates for the base. I found inspiration in ancient Roman art, architecture and tools. I found water bottle label inspiration in the "Smart", "Voss" and "Fiji" water bottles. I wanted to create something simple but combines the goddess Ceres with the pomegranate infused water. 

Mind mapping

 I started with some research on all of the gods and goddesses from the given list. I then decided that Ceres was the best choice for this project and myself. While researching Ceres I found that she was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain and the love a mother bears for her child. Since I am a mother and live in a little farm town you can see how this goddess would appeal to me. Her Greek counter part is Demeter and when seen in art she commonly has a farming tool in one hand and a fruit, flowers or grain. The Romans called her the nurturer of mankind and because of this they had a saying "fit for Ceres", which means "splendid". From there I started my mind mapping and the words that stood out to me were fruit trees and farming, I also noticed that all of my mind mapping bubbles had one thing in common, they all need water to grow. I then made a few small sketches; Roman farming tool, pomegranate tree fields, a large tree and fields, different angles of a pomegranate, seeds from inside a pomegranate and the leaves/stems. I knew from my personal love of ancient Rome that they loved pomegranates and would grow the trees inside their houses, they are not large trees. Knowing this I looked up pomegranates in ancient Rome and discovered some art done of a pomegranate tree, this was the inspiration for my color scheme. After I felt I had more than enough research done and a few ideas where I wanted to go with this project I started to sketch some water bottles. I made the bottle a medium height and slender; the height is representative of the height of the pomegranate tree and the slender look is influenced by the columns used in ancient Roman architecture. I also like the look of a "smart" water bottle, they are simple and sleek like the water. The first bottle has a pomegranate tree and a large close up pomegranate, I thought it needed this because the tree was not recognizable on it's own. The second bottle has a large but simple text and pomegranate logo, I also sketched another small logo out to the side. After looking them over I decided to go with the second sketch as my base water bottle label idea. From there I took to Ai and created the rest.