Designer box is a small brand working with subscribers who receive each month a surprise-object delivered at home in a wooden box of fixed dimensions. François Dumas was asked to design an object for box number 33, which had to be produced in a series of 3000 pieces. The project is a colourful basket made of EVA foam and produced locally in-house at Krux Amsterdam, the creative workspace he co-founded 6 years earlier. Together with Gero Asmuth, they developed an “amateur engineering “ process as well as tools to take-on the challenge to make 3000 units in a short amount of time. They developed a program for a laser cutting machine to engrave and cut the bowls in an efficient way as well as the tools to assemble the parts in a choreography allowing to produce each piece in a competitive time.
The basket is a simple container made from 8 millimetre EVA foam sheets, engraved with a pattern that makes it flexible and allows it to give different shapes. Like the technique of cutting mangos, the form follows the pattern and by bending it, it pops into 3 configurations.
