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.
After putting the finishing touches on our model by adding the color and graphics we went out to the Solly Bros.
Farm who are soon to be part of The Food Trust in Philadelphia. These are some photos of the process of our box.
The first step is to pick the produce and put it in the container.
The next step is to pack and transport. The boxes latch together, and if there is a larger size of produce,
the lid adds extra space. The lid is also able to be linked to.
The last step is to direct display the produce in the containers at the farmstand. This is a photo of our container at the
Farm to City stand for Rineer Family Farms. It was where we first began noticing the farmers using the baskets and
quart/pint containers as the elevation for the bins that they transfer their produce in from the wax boxes. We thought
to show them how our container works.
Here is the functioning model of our produce box in the works. We have got the structure together but have
not put the finishing touches on it quite yet. Our final design of the container will be slightly different; it will
be more stylized like the plastic milk crate container. We plan to put the side panel graphics on the side of
the box and also we plan to prime the MDF and then paint it in a more plastic looking brown.
These are some shots of us working on the final model.
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.
