In Class Task

In class we were told to create some sort of packaging that would support three apples using minimal materials used. We were provided with the apples, scissors, yarn and cardboard (but were discouraged to use cardboard).

First we took to the drawing board, and started thinking about ideas.

The sketches above show the initial sketches that I came up with, with only 45 minutes to complete the task there wasn't time to make lovely detailed sketches. The top two show my first idea, that has a triangle shaped piece of cardboard, with then the yarn wrapped above in a sort of webbing pattern, attached to cardboard by piercing a whole through it and tying a note underneath. The second drawing is where we use just yarn and yarn only, to tie them together. Plait three separate ropes together to create three individual plaits then wrapping them up together to attach them all as one. We did however modify this later on by doing them all individually and first then attaching them together at the top with yarn wrapping around it. We did it this way as, one we preferred the organic look and also then the consumer has the choice of we apple to eat first.

The final photograph below shows the final product. Which survived the "swingy" test with great strength, as nerve racking as it was to watch!!

This exercise made me think a lot about how to package something not with just a limited amount of material but also the type of product we had to wrap up. I used the knowledge that I already had, from what I had seen around the shops and markets before, and what we have been learning through the lecture and came up with this idea, which I think worked really well and looks pretty good too.