Project 4: "Transforming Takeout"
This project, unlike the last few, is paper-based. The goal is to make something useful that can, reversibly or irreversibly, transform into something else.
Idea Generation
I had a few ideas to start with:
1. Gift card sleeve -> picture frame
2. Pizza box -> pizza serving stand
3. Takeout box -> paper lantern
3 was quickly discarded as an idea that wouldn't work well in practice. 2 was interesting, but I felt a pizza box would be trickier to work with. 1 could easily be made of cardstock and was small, so I went with that.
1. Gift card sleeve -> picture frame
2. Pizza box -> pizza serving stand
3. Takeout box -> paper lantern
3 was quickly discarded as an idea that wouldn't work well in practice. 2 was interesting, but I felt a pizza box would be trickier to work with. 1 could easily be made of cardstock and was small, so I went with that.
Prototyping
I spent a long time prototyping this project. Starting with a hand-cut paper prototype to get the geometry right was definitely a good idea, and it greatly improved my final design