Si Stamp - Case Studies.

Children’s Buoyancy Aid
Starpack Winner 2017 – Highly Commended
Disaster Aid Starpack Brief 2017

The brief requirements were to design a packaging solution to contain and deliver aid products within the first few days of a disaster. The packaging must provide protection and preserve the items safely inside. It should be durable enough to survive delivery by air drop, sea or land.
The pack will contain either food or basic medical products essential to the victims within the first few days of a disaster. Some of considerations for the packaging included a secondary use for the packaging, climate conditions, flexibility of use and graphics to inform the recipients of its use and contents.
The brief stated that the materials should be 80% Polythene and 20% rigid plastic/card/board that can be used as inserts to separate or form part of the outer packaging.

Research included charities and existing packaging for disasters. Natural disasters, how they occur and how we deal with them were investigated. The initial design phase involved coming up with ideas of how various disaster victims could be helped. What items would they need and how could the pack provide a secondary use? Sketches were produced of a range of these ideas and development.

Whilst researching the various uses for polythene I came across bubble tube wrap packaging. These bags are used for packaging such items as laptops and wine bottles, they are stronger than bubblewrap. The packaging would protect the contents whilst providing a buoyencey aid to the user. The idea was to have two tubes that would fit together to form the packaging for surviaval items such as a rain coat, whistle, survival blanket and more.