BB-8 Sipper 

            This is a BB8 Sipper from Disneyland’s Tomorrow land. For those who don’t know the BB8 is a droid in the new Star Wars film the Force Awakens. The BB8 sipper’s is a cup so its function is to hold liquids that one drinks through the straw coming out of its head. This sipper is intended for children because it is kind of small but Star Wars lovers of all ages seem to enjoy them. This product was intended to promote the new Star Wars movie and is intended to be used throughout the Disneyland parks. The sipper is made out of hard plastic, and the colors were intended to match the actual droid in the movie. Since the launch the sippers have been one of the most popular items in Tomorrow Land. Even though they are intended for children many adults, including me, have been buying them.

            I think the design is great; It looks just like the droid in the movie. The only thing I have a problem with is the size, I wish it was a little bigger, but since it is meant for children it works to fit into little hands comfortably. But since most of the fans and the ones buying the cup are adults, I think Disney should have made the sipper bigger or had a bigger version available. For me it was a downer to spend the money and constantly needing to fill it up because it doesn’t hold that much. 

DTLA Flyer

This is a flyer promoting down town LA’s art walk. At least I am assuming that’s what the DTLA stands for. It was created to promote this event to the Cal state LA students in the fine arts building. Based on what I see, it seems as though someone took lined note book paper and drew up this flyer with black sharpie, highlighted the date of the even and was photocopied so that they could be posted all over the fine arts building.

            I personally think this flyer was poorly designed. The creator should have spent more time on it so that it would have a cleaner and organized look to it. Right now it looks as though someone just drew it up in about five or so minutes. I think that an event like this should have had a better flyer since it is a somewhat big event there should have been more time spent on it. One that is more eye catching, and easier to read because if its not no one is going to take the flyer seriously and the event seriously. What gets me is that the flyer was made for the art students in the fine arts building, even if the person who made the flyer wasn’t an art student they could have asked someone else in the building. If the flyer were made on the computer it would have been better, because the format is not bad necessarily it just looks sloppy. Even if they used regular white paper, not lined, it would have helped the design significantly. I also think they should have added color as well. I will say that I do like the little Godzilla in the right hand corner, which was a cute touch, even though everything else was not that great.