Time Capsule Paquete by Koichi Namimoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño de Envases Competition Category.

BronceEnvases· 2024

Time Capsule Paquete

by Koichi Namimoto

Client: Lang Design

A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Envases Category

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The Design

About Time Capsule Paquete

Time Capsule é un paquete deseñado para unha biblioteca comunitaria na cidade de Nishi-Tokyo. Time Capsule é prestado aos usuarios da biblioteca de forma anual. No seu interior gárdanse tesouros persoais e recordos familiares, e o usuario establece unha data e hora de apertura. O paquete parece un libro, polo que pode exhibirse nas estantarías altas que os usuarios non poden alcanzar e onde non se poden colocar libros con seguridade durante os terremotos. Cinco cores achegan movemento ao espazo mantendo un ambiente calmo. As cores resistentes ao desbotamento e o papel resistente ao deformado son axeitados para unha exhibición prolongada.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

Time Capsule Paquete gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Time Capsule Paquete sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. Time Capsule Paquete satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

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