Packaging Examples

Along with designing my own net and box I had a look around the house to find other examples of packaging to see how they are formed.
I didn't take the packages fully apart as they were still in use.

A good example, this scales box makes good use of slots and tabs to hold itself together. It does use one strip of glue to hold the center section together which I think could be replaced by a slot and tab that is used on the top and bottom of the box.
The inside tray holds the scales tight and it made from recycled material which was a good find.

Even the glasses at MacDonald's make good use of packaging with a small amount of materials and no glue. It simply holds itself together with one slot and the glass pushing in the opposite direction to hold it tighter, simple but effective.

The next one I looked at was a controller package, the center piece was made purely of folds which needed no glue which was good. The main box used just tabs and one bit of glue, shame it didn't use fully tabs.

I quite like this box design but it has a heavy amount of glue used it does make it quite un-green so it wouldn't be very appropriate.

A simple box design that uses folds and glue, it could do the same if it used tabs instead of glue.

My last little example was a pencil box, again this uses tabs and slots to hold itself together but still uses one bit of glue, so many of these are nearly 100% cardboard.

Looking at all of these packaging designs made me think of how simple a strong piece of packaging can be, like with the coke glass, its held together by a single piece of card which uses the objects weight to hold it together.
For my piece of packaging I would like to make it simplistic whilst being strong as it is required that it carries two ale bottles and a condiment bottle. Further research and designs will be carried out to find a suitable solution.