Vanaclocha packaging: exposed cardboard edges

The project

A printing company marked its 50th anniversary with a gift for its regular clients: a selection of screen-printed works on paper. Vanaclocha designed the packaging, with Archicercle providing technical advice, prototyping and manufacture.

The box’s distinctive feature is the way it is assembled. Rather than concealing the edges of the double-wall corrugated cardboard, the outward folds leave them exposed. The structure of the material becomes part of the piece’s visual character.

To achieve this fold, we used a laser cut that passed through the cardboard without cutting the final layer of paper. This remaining layer held the different sections together, allowing the box to be assembled from a single piece by folding it outwards.

We worked with cardboard that had already been screen-printed in different solid colours. Cutting the outline and openings, then superimposing the layers, created a composition of cut-out letters. White and kraft tones combine with areas of colour, including red and blue, across the different pieces.

Archicercle’s role focused on bringing Vanaclocha’s design into production through technical advice, prototyping, cutting, folding and assembly. The finished packaging was produced for the anniversary gift, bringing exposed edges and layered graphics together in a single solution.

The final paper layer remains uncut, holding the piece together as it is folded.

The previously screen-printed layers overlap to build the graphic composition.

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