Speaking from experience

Pantone wake up box with energizing pantone colours

Packaging Front

Printed on brown paper/ light card

Triangle pointing to 9:30

More obvious 9:30 triangle

Colour matching:

Speaking from experience- Pantone

bright and vibrant Pantone colours that help waking up and coming around in the morning

http://www.beliefnet.com/Health/Healthy-Living/How-Color-Can-Change-Your-Life.aspx?p=2

Red:
Blood pressure, respiration, and muscle tension all increase on initial exposure to red. But, this jazzy hue also boosts spirits and stimulates creativity, conversation, and the appetite.












Orange:
Like the edible fruit, orange is associated with health and well-being. Eye-catching, stimulating, exciting, and mood elevating, the color decreases irritability.












Yellow:
Vibrant yellow, bright and easily visible, is a great color to wear on dull, dark, or rainy days to add a little sunshine to your life.

 Blue

 Blue hues lower blood pressure, respiration, and pulse and convey a sense of peace, serenity, and tranquility. Blue objects tend to feel lighter than they are. A pale blue bedroom creates a light, airy atmosphere

Green:
The color of money, but also balance, harmony, and control, green exudes prosperity and well-being. It increases the ability to concentrate, while reducing muscular tension and stress.

Pantone research - Experience

Net Development- Speaking from experience

I created a box net with various tabs so I could see which one is most effective at holding the box together and also which is easiest for the user to assemble

This tab leaves some gaps at the edges as it isn't wide enough to hold the whole flap down

This flap is easily the best out of the ones I tested.

It holds it together strongly and looks neat and flush on the edges of the box. It is also relatively easy to assemble when the dimensions are measured accurately

I drew a new net that just used this tab to see if it would work for my product

The net worked well, looked neat and help together when I shook it and threw it about.

For the base it was a bit fiddley to tuck 3 'hooked' tabs in so I decided that 3 envelope tabs like this would be easier to assemble and  the tabs on the edges were strong enough to hold it all together

This bos is a scale model and is just under half the size of the actual product.

I asked a willing volunteer to try and get a pen lid out of the box, this proved difficult and the 'X' slot worked well at grabbing the users fingers. If it was bigger on thicker stock I think it would work at grabbing a hand!