Bundle Set
Overview:
This a studio term project for a sustainable products studio led by Jessica Swanson and Taylor Winegar.
This was a partner project with my peer, Kailey Chaffee. I designed and created the Tupperware: Bundle. She designed and sewed the bag: Tulip. We wanted to focus on this project's sustainable and natural material options and choices.
How might we create sustainable food storage to minimize future health issues?
Date:
Duration:
3 months
Humans are ingesting up to 50 plastic bags worth of plastic per year
(Bai et al., 2022)
Role:
Industrial Design
Ceramicist
Photographer
Humans are consuming more microplastics than ever due to plastic packaging and storage for our foods. Tupperware is a plastic-saturated market.
People don’t want to throw away their plastic Tupperware if there’s a bit of wear and tear, but this is exactly when microplastics are being released to interact with your food.
Other hazards are storing highly acidic foods in plastic wares and microwaving supposedly heat-safe plastic.
“BPA exposure has been associated with a higher risk of a wide range of health conditions or issues, such as infertility, altered fetal growth of the fetus, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and aggression among children, polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, and heart disease,” (Rogers, CNN, 2023)
To gain appeal and interest in our new tupperware set, my partner and I decided to market it as a picnic set. The set has four containers and a bag that zips out into a picnic blanket.
The two work together to make the transportation of non-plastic food containers more pleasing and low-stress.
The main painpoints we are targeting are noise from various containers clinking around and making packing various items for your picnic easier. Both items are addressed in the bag Kailey designed with padding and a series of cleverly placed pockets.
Link to Kailey’s picnic bag:
Picnic Set
Spring 2024
