Pack
Shipping case
A corrugated case with the flaps hinged open. It is judged by what arrives inside it, so the specification is the board grade rather than the print.
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PACKAGING / FICTIONAL RANGE
A pack is judged by what arrives inside it.
CARTONNAGE is a fictional packaging range covering corrugated shipping cases, moulded insert trays and rigid presentation boxes. The site is organised around the journey rather than the object: a pack that looks right and fails in transit is a pack that failed, and the failure is decided at the drawing stage.
Three packs, three ways a journey breaks them.
Each pack in this range fails at a different point in transit, and in each case the drawing decision that prevents it is easy to leave to the converter.
Pack
Insert tray
A moulded pulp tray with three cavities, for holding parts apart. The cavities are the specification: they decide whether the contents touch in transit.
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Rigid box
A two-piece rigid box with an overlapping lid. It is the pack the customer keeps, so the specification is the wrap and the board rather than the strength.
Open the pack →What a photograph of a pack leaves out.
Four things that decide whether it works, and that no picture of an empty pack will show.
- Stacking load
- What sits on top of it in a vehicle, for how long
- Drop height
- How far it falls, and onto what
- Humidity
- Whether the board is still stiff when it matters
- Fill and void
- Whether the contents can move inside before the box deforms
Why the contents matter more than the box.
Because a box protects by holding its contents still. A strong case with a loose product inside fails sooner than a weaker case with a product that cannot move.
What this site cannot tell you.
Whether your pack survives your route. That is established by sending one and inspecting what arrives, not by reading a page.