Personal project
For this project, I used the beautiful city of Leiden, the Netherlands, as the inspiration source.
Leiden is full of canals, brick pavement, cobblestones, gorgeous old buildings and lots of water everywhere!
So for my references, I took: the brick pavement, the red key that is the city symbol, the herring and the tulip.
After doing research and a lot of sketches, I ended up using the herring and the tulip, I found that they worked together beautifully, and somehow I also used a sort of distribution/organisation of the red brick pavement.
I also used the colours I see the most in the city, including Leiden’s red, and I think they give the city’s ambience to the design.
The gift box consists of a coaster, a notebook, a pencil case and a tea box.
As I loved the result, I worked on another version of the coaster, using red as the main colour and adding letters.
A small tribute to this beautiful city of canals and history that I call home.
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Monic Colias 