Design a pill?
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- Witt0
3D?
- dirtydesign0
Can't help you there. You could always crush up the 'bits and flakes' and sniff em..
- skt0
I assume it is simply a stamp that is created and then the pills are stamped whilst still malleable.
Surely just an .eps will do and whoever creates the stamp will worry about size.
- CALLES0
design not working for you? going into the X business?
- kelpie0
surely "hand carved by immigrants" would be a great USP for your company?
- Raniator0
Mitsubishi logo, quids in mate.
- edd-e0
do it as an embossing.
1mm down press.
do it in vector what ever you like to size it down to the needed size, make sure your graphic can still be recognized when shrunk to the pill's facing size.give measurements for everything inchuding the emboss itself.
the China Manufacturers should have no problem with those specs if you put every measurement.
you can get rather detailed if you like as well as 'lazeer etching' may be used to create the emboss to fine details.
however since it is a pill form you may not want that intense detail so much, perhaaps then as a texture.
screenprints can also be accomplished the same way. just make sure you have all the proper measurments in millimeter increments.
send me a batch of them e's when you done.
thanks!!
;)
- Nairn0
heh kelpie - I actually attempted hand carving a Berocca tablet to give me some idea of the restrictions.
It was of utterly no use.
No, I'm not going to defer to the manufacturer's expertise, or lack thereof. I'm just trying to avoid sending too many designs over to sample.
This isn't (sadly :) for an illegal drug (yet) - I have an existant product logo that needs to be translated into a less-detailed form for use on-pill.
I'm just trying to work out how detailed I can go (or, more accurately, how 'undetailed').
Thusfar I've taken an average 'small detail size' from loads of Googled ecstasy tablet images, which I'm confidant is approximately accurate - just not wholly so.
I'm babbling now. Apologies.
- OSFA0
are these pills good for dates? how much?
- edd-e0
if you need help in creating the spec i can send you samples of my work where i design tiny logos used for metal plates and rubberized injection molds.
a casting mold may have to be created for the manufacturer [they will do this] or even a wax mold.
- Nairn0
Thanks, epill.
Yes, they do it as an emboss in the imprint stage - essentially it's just a piece of milled metal, squishing the powder into form.
Problem is, product brand is quite detailed (my fault), so simplifying it coherently is key.
I just don't know how simple I have to go.
- mg330
If it's one of those boner drugs, the logo possibilities are endless.
- Concrete0
How about just putting an "F" on them?
Thus catering for the dyslexic pill head.
- edd-e0
can i see the image?
yo ucan email it if you dont want everyone to see it, and overtly keep making jokes.
- ravi0
Narin, confident is spelt without an 'a'
Okay, back onto the topic - you should get the manufacturers give you a free batch when you're done with the design,
So you can literally send out samplers to us designers, not to swallow- of course, just to stare at it with a magnifying glass and think to themselves- how it is beautifully designed by you.
- Nairn0
I'll send it in a couple of minutes to your edd-e address, epill - thanks!
x!
- Concrete0
If it's one of those boner drugs, the logo possibilities are bell-endless.
mg33
(Oct 4 07, 07:25)
- kelpie0
omg
someone paste a 'fail' image, quick ;)
- edd-e0
ok...ill dig up a bunch of logo specs for you to get a better realm of what embossing manufactures look for.
being details is the key. make sure your illy is readible by even people who arent the manufactures namely the "client"