Eco friendly scalable packaging designing

🔗 Packaging example – Google Drive
🎥 Maker process – TikTok Video

Packaging needs to work for multiple products and not just one — buying in and carrying a wide and diverse range of packaging options is unsustainable.

At our makerspace we like to re-use as much of the materials we play with as possible and, where possible, make our packaging eco-friendly through recycling, using offcuts, and making our packaging scalable.

We achieve this in 3 ways for our on-demand packaging:

1. Auxetic principles – a flat surface turns into one that can contour and hold an object in place.
2. A5 envelope and label – this can be folded into A6.
3. Lasered carrier card – holds the knobs we sell in place, made of scrap materials, and can hold 1–42 knobs for the same postage cost. As such, we only list 42 knobs at a time on the eBay listing to match.

Packaging design is not just about the design, but also about how it impacts workflow, logistics, and the bottom line — and ideally it needs to be eco-friendly where possible to help offset that carbon footprint, be it in a large corporation or a start-up at home.