Their containers hold everything from a corsage of fresh flowers to a half dozen bagels.
Students know all about fast food.
But with this assignment, they have a personal experience they can relate to. I like to get them started with something they can connect to. While the students generate the overall patterns for their designs on computers, they have to figure out how both the motif and color will relate to the food product, what happens to flowers enclosed in a box, what happens to the design once the container is folded, and whether the edges meet. Once a design is decided on, it is silk-screened onto a flat sheet of Bristol board and the cutting, creasing and folding begin.