Instruction
Create the gifting form that will be the outside box to open before the gift is revealed.
Purpose
Allow the design to transcended the gift itself and also include the box. What is something someone may want to keep? What does it mean to deliver a gift in a more extravagant way?
My Interpretation
Continuing the theme of Marcel Marceau and his mime career, I decided to make the gift-box reflect the silhouette of a traditional French theatrical stage. As is the case for mime performance, the environment is designed to be extremely minimal, all focus being emphasized towards the actor performing and how they convey character and story through their movement. To reflect this, I made the entire stage, inside and out, black to abstractly convey the idea that the lights are off and you are watching a performance. The sixteen holes on the stage are the locations of where the sixteen figurines will rest, four of them in front of the curtain as the stage is intended to be used curtain up and down. Any figure can rest in any hole, in any order. there is no correct way to organize the figurines. The curtain itself is fully functional and rises and falls with a simple mechanic on the side that can be rotated to simulate it’s movement.