— BONCREATIONS
Print-ready Product Labels & Uniform logos
ROLE
Graphic Designer
TOOLS
Designed print-ready product labels engineered for curved buckets, plus export-ready logo files for uniform production.
// CONTENTS
Context
Description
Results
Learnings
Gallery
LABEL DESIGN
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
— CONTEXT
TWO SMALL JOBS, A FEW WEEKS EACH
Buried inside the bigger rollout were two smaller, faster jobs: new printable labels for the products, and print-ready logo files for the company uniforms. Both came together in just a few weeks per product, a rare bit of speed in a process that otherwise stretched for a year.
— DESCRIPTION
A CURVED BUCKET AND A COLOUR THAT WASN'T MEANT FOR PRINT
The label itself wasn't a flat rectangle problem. Our buckets curve and narrow toward the base, so the label had to be designed in Illustrator to account for that taper rather than wrap like a straight cylinder. The early version carried the new logo, multi-language instructions, basic product warnings, and EU labelling requirements, plus separate designs per product category. Both got cut: the legal content was dropped by the stakeholder as unnecessary, and the per-category designs were scrapped for cost. What survived was simpler than planned, until a late layout pass rewrote half the design to add a full list of the company's product categories, by the owner's request.
The uniforms were a quicker job: export the logo as a high-quality PDF and a layered AI/SVG file for the printer to drop into their templates. Since the logo itself was solid white, I delivered it sitting on a black background, with a note explaining the black was just a stand-in for the textile colour, not part of the print.
— RESULTS
A LABEL THAT SHIPPED. A LOGO THAT DIDN'T
The bucket label made it through final approval and into production, category list included. The uniform logo didn't land as cleanly. The printer's question about that black background got routed to a colleague instead of me, the explanation got lost somewhere in translation, and the uniforms came back printed with the entire black background as one solid stamp. It looked exactly as bad as that sounds, and the surface cracked and flaked off fast. The batch was eventually remade correctly.
— LEARNINGS
I SHOULD HAVE JUST TRUSTED THEM
I'd skip the background entirely next time and just send the white logo on its own. Nobody hands over a reference colour like that inside the actual file, so it read as a real instruction rather than a note, and that's almost certainly what triggered the confused call to begin with. The professionals printing uniforms know how to handle a white logo on dark fabric without my help. The mistake wasn't the design, it was not trusting the people downstream to do their job.
— GALLERY
THE GALLERY
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