Thursday, April 03, 2008

[Advertising Space]

Advertising Space
Here's the front side of a packing I designed for a friend like five years ago. He was planning to sell protective hologram stickers for cell phones and he needed some sort of a picture mount where the stuff had to be attached to. The phone was entirely drawn with the lasso tool in Photoshop 6, so don't be too harsh on me - it was my first try as a wannabe designer...

By the way, did you know that all
Chameleons are able to change their skin color not only as an expression of their physical and physiological condition, but also as a method of communication, including to make themselves more attractive to potential mates. They have specialized cells, collectively called chromatophores, that lie in layers under their transparent outer skin.

The cells in the upper layer, called xanthophores and erythrophores, contain yellow and red pigments respectively. Below these is another layer of cells called iridophores or guanophores, and they contain the colourless crystalline substance guanine. These reflect, among others, the blue part of incident light. If the upper layer of chromatophores appears mainly yellow, the reflected light becomes green (blue plus yellow). A layer of dark melanin containing melanophores is situated even deeper under the reflective iridophores. The melanophores influence the 'lightness' of the reflected light. All these pigment cells can rapidly relocate their pigments, thereby influencing the colour of the chameleon...

Anyway, I typed this only to fill out the gap to the right of the image. =P

2 comments:

Sherilla Lay said...

>>Anyway, I typed this only to fill out the gap to the right of the image. =P << - I knew it ;-) You're not the type of guy who speaks, but it seems, when you do, you can speak like for hours. Photoshop 6? It seems it was like ages ago. Did your friend ever made it to production? I don't remember anyone selling chameleon stickers like these.

Stoyan Petrov said...

Well, I saw a printed version of my design, which leads me to the conclusion that he actually did. But I'm not really sure if he managed to make a big profit out of them... ^^