Upcycling Boxed Water Teams

For this project we decided to do something with an existing package rather than designing a new one. We were inspired by the Boxed Water is Better company so we upcycled their package. There are eight groups who worked on the projects. Each person in the group designed an object, but the groups worked together to come up with ideas, have discussions, critique one another’s ideas and help each other along.

Please take a moment to vote for a group. There were many considerations when we designed these objects, some people were concerned with function and practicality, some with aesthetics and others wanted to do something innovative or original. What is common is that each object is made from the Boxed Water is Better package. Click the images for Team blogs.

An interview with Benjamin Gott of ”Boxed Water is Better”.

Benjamin Gott - Interview from The D/E/C Project on Vimeo.

Chiquita Chandelier

Find this image at webecoist. Designer Anneke Jacobs created this chandelier, which casts subtle ambient lighting, while a student at the Utrecht School of Product Design.

Transformation

Unplug Design has created a way for children from the third world to play soccer. The “Dream Ball” is assembled from aid boxes. Normally these children use plastic bags and coconut palm leaves. The red cross and UN aid boxes provide the children with an alternative way to make a soccer ball and also provide a way to upcycle the boxes.

Manufractured

From the website + book: Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects.

constatin and laurene leon boym are product designers. each cup and saucer above is found at a thrift shop. the objects are stacked according to a set formula. Individual designs of each cup and saucer make each stacking unique.

box redux

BOXED WATER IS BETTER
create a proposal for how “boxed water” cartons could be re purposed. the proposal includes a clear recommendation for the proposed idea with visual three dimensional prototypes and or diagrams. verbal support of the idea should be included as well.

set up your team blogs:

1) become a follower of this blog
2) determine your team name
3) invite all team members to be authors and don't forget me!
4) post thoughts, realizations, process and projects to the blog
5) after the proposals are posted to this blog we will add the voting gadget!

posting final images

example sizes


FOR BLOG
· images should be sized as following for posting on your group blog:
· change to mode > 8 bit
· 10 inches on the longest side
· 72dpi
· resample image as either best for enlargement or best for reduction
depending on if you are enlarging or reducing from the original image size
· save for web and devices to adjust jpg quality to the highest setting
· when uploading the image to blogger, select the large image size
· place images first, diagrams second, proposal third
· make sure the images will enlarge on the blog posting, if not keep replacing till it works

FOR THUMBNAILS
· select one image to be used as a thumbnail ( this will go on the main blog and
will be a link to your group blog )
· image size 200 x 200 jpg at 72 resolution
· place this into a folder titled “thumbnails” on the webshare

FOR FINAL PDF FILES
· place a pdf file of your package images, proposal and diagrams into the webshare in a file titled “boxed water proposal”
· pdf files should be saved as smallest size