Branded boxes for Grupo Portolito

The project

We developed wooden boxes for Grupo Portolito that incorporate the restaurant’s visual identity. The studio’s work covered design and prototyping, from shaping the curved body to integrating the magnets and engraving the lids.

The exterior was made from birch using kerfing: a series of small, carefully positioned cuts that allow the wood to bend. This technique forms the curved edges and leaves a linear pattern that becomes part of the box’s appearance.

Inside, we built up the form with black-stained MDF. The contrast between this dark core and the wooden exterior distinguishes the two parts of the piece without adding further graphic elements.

We used neodymium magnets for the closure. Recesses were made in the surface to house them, integrating them into the box rather than leaving them mounted on top.

Once the wood had been stained, we engraved the restaurant’s name and logo on the lid using our galvanometer laser system. The prototypes bring together the development of the form, the closure and the branding in a single box design.

Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.