Socks Gift Package

The package for kids socks has a unique look with holes that you can feel and see the texture and pattern of the socks. The double wall design is hard enough to protect the product. Kids can open the package by simply pushing the drawer out from the hole on the top. The package can then be used for storing toys and be carried with them .

DURATION

3 weeks, Mar. 2019

Team

Individual

my Role

Ideation, Package Design

This is an assignment from Design 166: Design Foundation Winter 2019. We were assigned to design a gift package that contains two pairs of socks by using a sheet of 16X32’’E-flute cardboard without taping or gluing.

Target Audience

Thinking of my younger brother living in Taiwan far away from the States, I decided to make sock package for young boys. The package should be playful and attractive to the eye of little kids, and it can be reused for other purposes, such as becoming toys or boxes for stationaries. Moreover, it should be easy to handle and has smooth opening experience.

Concept Development

Considering of unique opening experience and visual, I proceeded in the idea of a hexagon shape drawer box. Instead of pulling the drawer out, I made it pushable(Version 1). Thus, there is a hole on the side of the box that relied on the wall of the drawer. However, the box was too big that it’s hard to have the drawer completely pushed through.

vErsion 1

Another idea(Version 2) focuses more on the see through appearance to better show the feature of the product. There are three holes on the lid and one on each sides of the box that shows three pairs of socks respectively. But it has an unpleasant opening experience since it consists of multiple unstable parts. And the volume is too small to fit in the socks.

vErsion 2

I decided to proceed on the version 1, and make more variations from it. First, to make the appearance more unique and stronger to protect the product, I shortened the height of the hexagon and made the sleeve double layered. I also changed the wings to tabs and locks to make the walls tighter within each other. Moreover, I made the slots on the outside of the sleeve rounded instead of the normal rectangular shape, so it looks more amiable.As for the drawer, it changed from one that needed a board in the bottom to lock the walls from flipping outward to one that could stably assembled with one piece of compartment.

Through the design process, I made more than twelve prototypes. They were different in size, shapes, and features. Design evolved bit by bit with merge of different ideas. Each time making another net and cut with laser cutter, I was like doing another experiment. When I folded the box, I learned and made changes from the mistakes and thought of solutions. In addition, the project made me discover my passion in physical prototype making and problem solving in a design aspect later on inspiring me to pursue in interaction design that consists of both problem solving and art.

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