Innovative Packaging

Innovative Packaging brief:

Design a new and innovative piece of packaging that helps in a quick and convenient way to transport its contents without compromising their natural structure. The packaging needs to be made from one piece of flat sheet material ie. corrugated cardboard, which by proper bending becomes a stable structure.

Choose from flowers or footwear. You must demonstrate at the crit your outcome(s) containing physical flowers or footwear to show its feasibility.

You must also consider its aesthetic appearance in that it must convey simplicity. This must be presented to a high quality professional level. Remember this is degree level study.

Packaging prior to adding tabs

Since I chose flower packaging, and a major feature was that it should be waterproof, I began by trialling different materials and shapes to determine what created the longest lasting waterproof vessel. My result was a type of thick watercolour paper. With further research I found that by rubbing a wax candle over the surface of the paper increased its waterproof qualities and so allowed me to draw a basic floral design on the packaging without it smudging when in contact with water.

Initially my shape was based on a cone, with petal like shapes that would bend back towards the cones base stabilising the packaging also as a vase. Due to its instability I added slotted tabs into the corners of the 'petal' shapes in order for the packaging to hold its shape when being used as a vase.