Packaging and Merchandising Design:Project 1/Box Making

July 26, 2024

Packaging and Merchandising Design:Project 1/Box Making

Week 5 - Week 7
YeXinyan / 0355096
Packaging and Merchandising Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 1/Box Making

Instructions

Lectures:

All lectures have been completed in Exercises: Case Study

TASKS

Designing Custom Boxes for Non-Boxed Items

Our task is to select two non-boxed objects from everyday environments. The size of the objects is between 2mm and 5mm. After consideration, I chose breath freshener spray and passport holder. Because the material for laser cutting is about 200gsm art card, it should not be too heavy. These two items are what I use every day, so I prioritized designing boxes for them.

First item: Breath Freshener Spray

Width: 2.4mm

Height: 9.4mm

Fig. 1.1

Breath Freshener Spray

Reason for choosing this item:

Breath freshener sprays are usually portable products that come in fragile sealed bags with no way to prevent the liquid from spilling.

Second item: Passport Holder

Width: 10mm

Height: 14.8mm

Fig. 1.2

Passport Holder

Reason for choosing this item:

Not used every day, needs to be stored properly to avoid dust accumulation
Lovely products need packaging to protect them

Prototype

Breath freshener spray box

Fig. 2.1

Breath Freshener Measurements and Prototype Sketch

With this sketch, I started to draw a prototype in real size on Adobe Illustrator. According to Shamsul Hamimi's demonstration, we began to divide the box into two layers for drawing, one layer for Outline and the other for Insideline. At the beginning, I mistakenly overlapped some lines in Outline and Insideline. After Shamsul Hamimi's feedback, I corrected this problem in time so that I would avoid many unnecessary mistakes in the later process.

Fig. 2.2

Breath Freshener Line drawing in Adobe Illustrator.

Then, I did Laser Cut & Box Making.After determining the die-cutting line, we went to the laser cutting studio to make the box. Since the machine in the school broke down, I had to go outside the school to find a laser cutting studio. For the material, we used Art Card of about 200gsm.After finishing, I continued to test the box to see if it would fit the Breath freshener spray box.

Fig. 2.3

Breath Freshener Box Open Dieline

The Breath Freshener stores very well once folded and put into the box, and there is enough space for the Breath Freshener to stay in the box without it moving.

Fig. 2.4

Breath Freshener Open Box

Fig. 2.5

Breath Freshener Close Box

Passport Holder Box

At the same time, I also noted down the dimensions of the Passport Holder and drew the die cut lines to test as a prototype.After measuring the dimensions, I sketched out the idea of the box. I wanted the lid to be embedded in the gap of the paper underneath, so that it would be more stable and not easy to open accidentally.

Fig. 3.1

Passport Holder Box Measurements and Prototype Sketch

I continued by drawing a full-size prototype of the Passport Holder in Adobe Illustrator.

Fig. 3.2

Passport Holder Box Line drawing in Adobe Illustrator.

At the same time I did Laser Cut & Box Making for my Passport Holder Box .

Fig. 3.3

Passport Holder Box Open Dieline

Fig. 4.1

Final Breath Freshener Spray Box - Angle Compilations

Fig. 4.2

Passport Holder Box - Angle Compilations

FINAL OUTCOMES

Fig. 5.1

Breath Freshener Spray Box Dieline - Adobe Illustrator

Fig. 5.2

Passport Holder Box Dieline - Adobe Illustrator

Fig. 5.3

Breath Freshener Spray Box & Passport Holder Box

Fig. 5.4

Breath Freshener Spray Box & Passport Holder Box

Fig. 5.5

Breath Freshener Spray Box Open Dieline

Fig. 5.6

Breath Freshener Spray Box Folded

Fig. 5.7

Passport Holder Box Open Dieline

Fig. 5.8

Passport Holder Box Folded

Feedback

-Week6

To make a box in AI, you must separate the inner and outer lines into two layers.When designing the box, allow for the loss of the box when it is folded.

Reflections

-Experience

This task was a fun hands-on job that involved a lot of measuring, cutting, and folding. It was also the first time I realized that laser printing was a very efficient tool.

-Observation
One important stage in building a box. It's critical to understand how much leeway to allow for measures in order to ensure that the products fit the box comfortably without being overly snug.

-Findings

When working in Adobe Illustrator it is important to be unit specific and not to be careless with the layers. When designing the cut lines of a box, there should be no overlap between the inner and outer lines.

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