Here is our rendered plastic model on display at an open air urban farmer’s market.
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This design is the final concept for our plastic produce container.
The callouts are updates from our original design.
The container fits nine quart containers…
It also fits twelve pint containers.
We have been starting to think a bit about graphics that would be shown on the side of the box.
We have been researching graphics of the produce industry and have noticed that a lot of boxes
have the vintage style graphic on the sides. On the wax boxes even today there seems to be a sort
of old fashioned font and picture of fruit on the side. We are thinking we will explore this style
and put some sort of design on our box.
We began cutting our next model on the CNC machine.
This is the start of the front panels that have the locking mechanism.
Our next task is to cut the handles and set them into the MDF.
The sides look like this…
These are the panels that we cut a space out
in so that we could reduce the weight of the MDF.
Ideally, our model would be molded plastic like the milk crate,
but for our first model it was more possible to make a usable
model out of 1/2″ MDF, 1/4″ pegboard, and 1/4″ corrugated plastic.
These are the corrugated plastic cutouts that fit into the side panels.
We decided to cut holes in them for breathability. Before we had circle
cutouts, but we changed the model so that produce would be less
likely to fall out of them.
Back Front
This is a map that describes the farmer’s interaction with the packaging container. Also shown is some research of the process.
Through our research we came across the packaging containers used in today’s agricultural system.