Find attached the pictures of my layout pad designs for task 3, shoe-box. It's explained on the layout pad as well but I'll just mention briefly here that the idea came from designing a shoe-box for shoes that a company called "Globe Hope" (more info: http://www.globehope.com/en/?___from_store=fi ) produces as they are big on recycled materials and low carbon footprint.
I had a quick think about materials that are thrown to waste but could be used again and probably because I've recently worked in a department store I realized how much and what kind of wood material they throw away.
I just think it's such a shame especially when wood can be used in so many ways and it is possible to be build into quite strong constructions, like for example shelves for shoes. Hopefully the idea responds to the brief, the design could be simplified a bit in my opinion but would take more time and maybe hands on practical research on the best solution.
Nick Lyons
Here's my shoe box photos (see attached). The box is two triangles created in origami and requires no glue, it is secured by a peice of twine through the top which also attaches a vegetable printed tag, all in single colour. The box is designed as an equilateral triangle, due to the way you fold it, allowing it to be transported as normal on pallets atc and requires no special shipping, 4 together for example makes a square, reducing emmisions for transportation.
Annotations are more visable in the learning pad and will explain more in learning teams.
Tom Cudworth
have attached my designs as requested. I have chosen a shoe company called Ipath who are a company with a strong advocacy policy towards sustainability.Mike Doe
so I have included a link as well for you to look at :-
http://web.ipath.com/advocacy
Hannah Potter
It looks better on the paper than it does in the picture!
I also included another example I find give the idea of the material I had in mind..
One of the shoe laces ties the box together but with the least amount possible exposed on the outside of the box to it doesn't get damaged in transit.
The box itself would be formed from a single mould out of recycled card
As there is nothing to separate the shoes they fit in the box with soles facing each other
There is a curve in the base and notches in the top so it can be stacked.
My one intention for re-use was that it could be a small plant pot, as i had seen water bottles made from recycled card but the inside would have to be coated to hold liquid which make it less recyclable for people who wouldn't use it for that..
1. I have tried to freshen up the everyday shoe box by making it eco-friendly, recyclable and reusable by utilising a simple packaging design that can be easily assembled. I have also included a grill into the box design so it can be used to display the product as well as safely store and transport it. I found it challenging to try and employ all of the brief's requirements into just one design but I soon became amazed at the array of different options (i.e. soy/vegetable inks and packaging materials) that are eco-friendly and price match regular more commonly used materials reiterating the question why aren't more companies jumping to switch to environmentally friendly products.
2. The Stomp Box design is:
- made completely from post consumer waste paper
- 100% glueless
- contains a handle so a carry bag is not needed
- printined using only soy inks
- fully recyclable simply by stomping on the box so it fits into its correct bin
- reusable as a stylish and practical storage container
- esay to store or transport either as a box or as a flat pack
- constructed in 8 simple steps
- cost effective
Parisa Darling
My designs are all coloured on photoshop just to give an idea of the colour scheme as i left my pens at home and ran out of time to colour it by hand. But they will be fully finished in my layout pad by next week.
Leon Li
The reason why I am interested in this idea is because while I play my piano keyboard and guitar in my room, I often have nowhere to put the sheet music to read it and it became quite annoying. Therefore I had a theory that perhaps a shoes box could be used as a paper stand for uses such as holding my sheet music, or for holding paper cooking recipes
As this is an eco-friendly design, it will likely be made with recyclable chipboard, wood and cardboard. However I am thinking that I should use particle board as the final material. Particle board is made from leftover materials, such as wood chippings, sawmill shavings and sawdust from various places, and is also quite durable. I will use soy ink instead of normal petroleum based ink because it is more environmentally friendly and makes it easier to recycle paper. It means that the paper can be recycled easier because the soy ink is made from organic materials, in this case soybeans.
Tim Berry
I have used the design principles behind the boat shoe to play on the surrounding packaging. For example, I have planned to use recycled cardboard with a cut out toy boat incorporated in packaging. This plays on the fun aspect of buying a pair of shoes, as I did not was the whole recycling issue to come across in a ridged fashion.By using recycled cardboard I am cutting down on the overall amount of cardboard being made. But in my design more importantly I wanted to get across a fun and quirky idea so that the idea of sustainable packaging is not always viewed as a chore!
Nathan Brown
Michael Arwel Evans
We see many reusable bags today in supermarkets and high street stores which are starting to make an eco-fashion statement.
The packaging will be hung from rails in store using recyclable plastic. Made from #1 PET, which is the same plastic used for water bottles, and the most recyclable plastic world-wide. These hangers intend to replace the wooden hangers that have unnamed treatments, varnishes, and adhesives, which may be toxic, and prevent them from being composted or turned into other products
My concept uses organic cotton for the bag which provides a sustainable living for cotton farmers, it will often be traded along fair principals, so providing a better standard of living for the workers, and it uses safe methods to control the amount of pests which might potentially damage a cotton crop. The bag is bio-degradable and re-usable.
Recycled card will be used as a shell, shaped to fit the trainers which will sit inside the organic cotton bags displayed on store rails. Once the customer is home, the card can be taken out, recycled and left with an eco-fashion reusable bag.
Vegetable ink will be used for printing as it reduces emissions and uses less solvents than petroleum based inks. By printing using waterless or alcohol free methods, it will lessen the environmental impact. Also Vegetable-based inks have far better biodegradability and are renewable. An added benefit is that vegetable based inks are easier to de-ink in the recycling process.
It is an eco-friendly design which will benefit the consumer/retailer with it's multi-use and sustainable solution.
James Duffield
1. I've created this shoebox concept with sustainability and recycling in mind while trying not to copy the concepts created by fuseproject for Puma. In my mind their 21 months of work has resulted in the perfect design for our current needs. I've attempted to go in another direction. I wanted to design a package that was compact and form fitting so that less material was used. I also considered which materials would be best for the environment during and after production. Because of this my design is based largely around FSC Card created from recycled card and FSC wood. Using two single pieces of card with no glue for the two main aspects of the package means it will go back into the stream faster and easier. The design is made stronger by a non-woven (Heat stitched) chord that threads through slits in the card to hold the product in place. This then binds the package and product together to protect it in transport and enhance its sturdiness while stacking. The chord also doubles as a handle for the customer to transport it from the retailer making any other packaging redundant. The slip on card includes all the ink-based design printed with vegetable inks or water-based single colour inks if the design requires a simpler theme.
2. As you can see I've considered many of the eco-design principles as explained above.
Anna Jarvis
Ref link: [Sperry Shoes]As you can see there is a reccuring pattern and design within this style of shoe. Sperry's 'The passion for life in, on and around the sea', was a massive catalyst to the design ideas i have produced.
I had the idea that I would recycle boat sails as the main material to wrap the shoes. The wrap is then tied like the laces on the shoes, with recycled boat rope. With more research I would go into looking at exactly how much waste there is from old boat sails. From what i have seen so far there is a lot of potential and there are many old boats that aren’t used anymore because their sails are broken.
The idea would be to take the old sails and re-produced them into the packaging for the sperry top-sider shoe. Thus recycling and re-suing materials to save natural resources.
Paul Shipley[No work or comments supplied]
Luke Smith
Tom Willis
Design 1 (Top) This design use’s one piece of cardboard to square off the packaging into a box shape & also splits up the items making them more secure/less lose. The design interested me because this design could easy be taken further to be a lot more aesthetically pleasing and be even have curved edges and still work. I may develop this design to just see how far it can go!
The Eco design principles of the design are that the string acts as the lacing to the packaging, keeping it together, securing the items inside, and is also the carrying handle for the packing.
Design 2 (Lower)
I design the two lower parts to this design this added another flip lid. Just using the string pull system, it seemed by the end of the initial design process, it would be a very secure packaging for any type of item really. Again just using the string as a handle and locking system, with card folds and pulley holes through corrugated cardboard keeps it quite Eco friendly.Peter Fox
I have chosen to incorperate a similar practical solution to that offered with the Puma design we have looked at.As with any design form should always follow function, and I see no reason why the use of storage and transport cannot be implemented within one design. Mine design involves holding both shoes individually within removeable cyclinders that can be easily held in pre-stiched compartments of a canvas bag. Aesthetically the bag itself can change accordingly but evident by popular shops such as supermarkets or retailers like riverisland these eco friendly
bags are quite fashionable. The shoe itself is held by a bioplastic holder that plugs the tube but would also be mountable in stores. Once removed the bag can also acts as a carrier for wine bottles once the handles are changed for the upright ones already attached.
My main goal was to make this design simple, yet highly versatile and adaptive. It allows the user and retailers to get more from their packaging whilst maintaining an eco-friendly 100% recycable / Biodegradable solution.
I have achieved this by using materials such as 'Green Cell Foam', Corn Starch bio-degradable plastics and the posibility of vegitable oils to to add images or logos to the bag itself.
Chun
Well basically i designed mine based on the wasteful space in packaging from the shoes you get in boxes, so mine is alot tighter saving material. Because i find it quite surprising when you read statics on how much material can be saved simply changing the size of the packaging used. i've also chosen to use paper pulp because it can be used from recycled paper and can be recycled further or just decompose.Adam Hinchcliffe
1: the design is in mind of the video that i found on youtube last week, so its all about recycling products in your local area, where you can always use someones rubbish, so a business uses lots of paper so they can reycle the paper and we could shred it to use to pacakage the products,
2: we can reclaim wood from local building sites to use for our box's, these boxes can be reused within in the home and can also be handed back to the shoe box company to be made into another shoe
Box.
3: it would keep the item more safe and secure from weather and dropping of the box, keeping your Shoes safe!
Will Darling
My first design 1 (Red): Has been adapted from the puma bag box, the design has an inside cardboard skeleton which is the overlaid with Jute fabric one of the longest used eco-friendly fabrics, secondary use would be that the cardboard skeleton inside can be taken out and recycled whilst the bag can then be used as an everyday carrier bag. I was influenced to use a fabric mainly from the puma bag as I felt it was quite innovative as well as being pleasing to the eye.
2nd design: I have taken the material from the 'Sunrise blog' of the re-useable packaging made from coconut tusks, which I have then adapted to almost feel like it is vacuum packed onto the shoe, giving the package more of a design to suit what it is being used for, the two clips that would be used to hold both sides together would be velcro and each handles would be wrapped together whilst the customer carriers the package.
