Time Capsule Emballage by Koichi Namimoto

Time Capsule Emballage by Koichi Namimoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Emballage Competition Category.

BronzeEmballage· 2024

Time Capsule Emballage

by Koichi Namimoto

Client: Lang Design

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Emballage Category

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The Design

About Time Capsule Emballage

Time Capsule est un emballage conçu pour une bibliothèque de quartier de la ville de Nishi-Tokyo. La Time Capsule est prêtée aux usagers de la bibliothèque pour une durée d'un an. Trésors personnels et souvenirs de famille y sont conservés, et l'usager fixe lui-même la date et l'heure de son ouverture. L'emballage a l'apparence d'un livre : il peut ainsi être exposé sur les étagères hautes, hors de portée des usagers, où les livres ne peuvent être rangés en toute sécurité en cas de séisme. Cinq coloris insufflent du mouvement à l'espace tout en préservant une atmosphère paisible. Des couleurs résistantes à la décoloration et un papier résistant au gauchissement conviennent à une exposition de longue durée.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Time Capsule Emballage est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Time Capsule Emballage est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Time Capsule Emballage satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Time Capsule are loaned to the Machi Library located in MUFG PARK users on an annual basis. Users keep their treasures and family mementos etc. in this package, and set the date and time to open . It would deliver the thoughts and feelings over time to a future self or someone special.
The bookshelves in the library tower high into the ceiling, making it impossible for users to reach books at the top. In addition, Japan's unique natural environment, with its frequent earthquakes, makes it impossible to arrange books on high shelves. But to leave the tops of all the bookshelves in a library open would spoil the intellectual atmosphere of the library.
For these reasons, I intended to design Time Capsule to look like a book and maintain the atmosphere of the library.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width:258mm x Depth:85mm x Height:315mm
Tags: Packing design, Japanese, machi-library, Space design, Graphic design
Production Technology: The color scheme and materials were simulated several times, as it was important that the time capsules looked beautiful when lined up in the library space. The boxes were manufactured by Morita Corporation, which can make a combination of machine-made and hand-made parts, because it would be too numerous and expensive to hand-machine them, and too few and expensive to machine them.
Design Challenge: This package has been on display for a long time. Therefore, I considered colors that would not easily fade and paper materials that would resist warping.
Research: In recent years, libraries have been in need of attractive designs. There are more than 1,000 Machi-libraries in Japan, and during the design process, user data was used to understand the needs of users. The time capsule serves not only as a visual design in space, but also as a communication design.
Inspiration: Time Capsule will be displayed like books in the library. Therefore, it was designed to express not only intelligence, but also a sense of fun. As a result, they create a kind of 'movement' in the space with their five-color range, while creating a calm and beautiful atmosphere, like a dictionary.
Project Duration: This project began in June 2022 and finished in June 2023 in Nishi-Tokyo City.
Operation Flow: The size and design of the boxes was determined by research into what items people keep carefully at home and what they would like to put in.
Image Credits: Photographer: Masahiro Tamura