Your Mission

Package designers use their knowledge of two- and three-dimensional figures to design product containers that meet the client’s specifications. Their daily duties include determining the best dimensions for packages to meet volume and dimensional requirements, creating patterns for manufacturing, and discovering how to place patterns on raw materials to minimize scrap and cut costs. They also choose placement of graphics on the package to meet the product manufacturer’s specifications, satisfy any regulations, and create an appealing package.

In this project, you will work with a team of fellow package designers to uncover options for the product package you are assigned to design. You and your team will find existing packages that hold similar volumes and measure their dimensions. You will use your measurements to explore package dimensions that meet the volume and surface area requirements specified by your client. On your own, you will design a rectangular prism that meets all requirements and saves the client money by minimizing waste of the raw materials used to make the boxes. You will use a coordinate grid to show the printer where to place the final graphics on the unfolded box. Last, you will write a report justifying your proposal for the shape and size of the box, the placement of the net or nets on the sheet of raw material, and the placement of graphics on the surface of the box.

Let’s get started! You have a package to design.
​Good luck!