Bilstein is a company that originated in Germany and have some of the best coilovers ever created. I am always buying expensive car parts all the time for my car, and I realized something. You pay all of this money for these parts, and they just show up in a cardboard box with a packing slip.
I wanted to create a packaging system for their coilovers, where you get vinyl decals, a shirt, a poster, and even a booklet that tells you everything about Bilstein. All of this is yours in this gifted box that you can keep using to store tools or anything you want. The Bilstein type logo that you see on the front is a hand drawn font and was made specifically for this package. I first designed everything on the computer and then simply had everything laser engraved into the wood. Everything was built by hand by me.
Applications: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
For the handles, I used pieces of leather that I glued and then kept rolled using small hose clamps, and then finally drilled them directly into the sides of the box. I wanted to add original and unique handles to this box, but at the same time keeping usability and mobility for when you want to transport it.
I wanted this box to open in a very unique way, but still was user friendly. I decided to have the top slide open on rows of wood that I designed inside the box.
The booklet was designed in Illustrator, printed all of the pages, created the folded crease, and then finally bolted it all together. I gave this book a mechanical feel to it by using bolts to bind the pages together.
This booklet tells you what’s in your box, about the coilovers themselves, and background information about the company.
For the Decals, I went with a more simplistic approach using the logos that were used on the box.
This vintage style poster comes with everything else in the box. This poster uses the same designs from the box with some added effects of aging and destress.