FEED is the main blog where Aeronaut Studio provides various design inspiration in cars, photography, architecture, graphic design, and personal projects. By Josh Lopez

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FUEL BOX 1

I have always liked tin cans especially these one gallon  tins because of the unique proportions they have. For some reason the proportions of these cans and other euro storage boxes are really attractive to me. Something about the metric system creates aesthetically pleasing volumes. 

The simplicity of old screen printed packaging is inspiring because of the limitations and the amount of creativity it takes to make an exciting graphic. The restraint on number of colors and intricacy of shapes really made a stronger impact on my graphic sense more than any packaging I see today. The idea of fuel boxes was initially to use old tin cans with vintage graphics and turn them into tool boxes but after buying my first can, I realized that it may not always turn out strong enough due to rust. 

I plan on making many more of these and hopefully none of them will be the same. I've been thinking about this project for a while but finally got the time to actually make it, and decided to make it a gift for someone. It took me a week to finish it but if I were to only focus on this, it would probably take me a couple days. It was a fun project to design and think of an interesting back story on how it would come into existence. 

Its a pretty straight forward concept with a lot of freedom for how it could be used. It could a tool box, lunch box, pencil supply container, whatever you need it to be. Take a look at some visuals, hope to make more soon.

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A LOOK BACK AT DECEMBER 2015

At the beginning of December, I knew that I wanted to do something that would kickstart my transition into 2016 with an energetic jump. I decided to make a list, and from that think of gifts to make for the close ones. But for everyone I would make a christmas card for and mail it because the only things that we get in the mail these days are bills and amazon boxes. I quickly sketched the card and finalized it within a couple days. I have access to an OKI 941 that has the ability to print white ink, which I thought would be perfect for a cool looking card. I printed the cards on and envelopes and focused on making gifts for the close ones. A good design exercise it turned out to be and also quite time consuming but it was all worth the time knowing that be spending New Years in NYC with some of my closest friends. 

For the cousin

Part one of the trip was going from Maryland to New York City

Part two of the trip was getting from NYC to Moretown, Vermont.

Part three was getting from Vermont back to Maryland and eventually back to San Francisco.

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