Past Student Worth Checking Out

I want to make sure I can remember this girl, not just because she also did a cereal box design, but because her body of work is really interesting!
Check out Lauren Wiginton!

Here's her cereal box design:

I've already got a few ideas from looking at her design.  I'd like to make a window that goes up the length of the box so you can always see how much you have left.  I liked her cut-out tab at the top, although if possible I am sticking with my original plan of making some sort of pouring spout on the side.  I also hadn't thought much about how to present the nutrition information, but seeing hers I'd like to find a creative way to do it, too.

Final Project: Packaging Redesign

Final Project, WOOO!  I'm excited, I really want to do well.  So, I'm going to be trying to redesign a Trader Joe's cereal box.  I feel it doesn't advertise its health benefits as well as it could, in addition to just being brown, boring, and unattractive.  I'd also like to try my hand at the more functional aspect of trying to make the box easier to open, close, and reopen/pour.
So far I'm browsing packaging templates to try to get ideas.
*Random sidenote: has anyone ever seen scallop boxes before?  These kind:

I've just never seen anything like this before, but it looks a little unappealing to me.  Kind of a weird way to get the lid to stay on.  What do you think?

Of course, once I looked up scallop boxes to find out more (some were better looking/different than this) I ended up finding pictures of actual scallops, and now I'm hungry.  Darn.

Book Cover Project Progress

So, after doodling whatever ideas came to mind, I pretty quickly settled on this basic idea:

Which I later refined:

I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out what to put on the back.  I took a break from thinking about that to work on the other aspects of the back cover, like the summary.  This is silly to mention, but I ended up writing the summary myself.  I know we could have just taken one from anywhere, but I didn't like any of the summaries I found and I wanted to make it interesting, not just presenting it as something everyone already knows.

I'm actually glad I did, though, because seeing what the cover looked like after that helped me finally decide what to do.  It's so nice and clean looking (especially compared to what I normally put out) that it seemed only natural to just continue the flow of the front cover in a simple, unobtrusive way.
So after all that, along with my home computer dying and the ridiculous misadventures with the printer taking a FULL HALF HOUR to print two pages even though they had barely any ink on them, this is the finished product:

And I'm actually pretty proud of it!  Hooray!