After creating the water bottles, we thought about how we would be able to package these along with the bike chain. This product would have to be packaged separately as it would not fit in the flat pack bike wooden sheet.
After initially coming up with the Egg box idea, made out of cardboard pulp, we thought about how we could go about visualising this. Firstly we bought a 10pack egg box and removed the eggs. After this we photographed a standard 500ml water bottle in the egg box to get an idea of what sized bottles would fit, and what size we would need our egg box to be.
Another thing we had to think about was accommodating the chain into the box also. Egg boxes traditionally come with sections in the middle of the eggs which stick up, almost yogurt pot shapes, We are thinking that we could perhaps wrap the chain around this, to keep the design simple and still protect each part, i.e. the bottles and the chain.
After initially coming up with the Egg box idea, made out of cardboard pulp, we thought about how we could go about visualising this. Firstly we bought a 10pack egg box and removed the eggs. After this we photographed a standard 500ml water bottle in the egg box to get an idea of what sized bottles would fit, and what size we would need our egg box to be.
Another thing we had to think about was accommodating the chain into the box also. Egg boxes traditionally come with sections in the middle of the eggs which stick up, almost yogurt pot shapes, We are thinking that we could perhaps wrap the chain around this, to keep the design simple and still protect each part, i.e. the bottles and the chain.
These are the initial photographs to show how our idea might look once the product is opened. The logos and contents information would be embossed onto the top of the pack, again so not to use inks or plastics, which most of the time cannot be recycled.
Quick mock up of Water box container
Above is our first mock up of our water bottle container, quickly created on photoshop. One thing i have noticed with this design, is we would have to completely vacuum form the egg box shape to make it fit around the bottes and the chain included within it.