Was coffin building..... Now small box building *LINK*
Cooper Suter
>Thanks to all for your support and responces to my first post.
The family chose cremation, and the coffin is now to be two "scatter boxes" for the ashes.
Basically the ashes are going to be divided into two plastic bags which then will each go into their own slide top box.
I'm told the protocol is to slide open the top, slit the bag, and scatter the ashes.
The parents are getting one box, the significant other the other box.
My questions now are;
-Dimensions/neccesary volume? Anyone have any 1st hand experience? I'm going to try and get the bag dimensions from the funeral director (the only difficulty, is I'm in Toledo OH, and my friend's body is in Seattle WA).
-Design? There's an obvious time costraint, so I need to short-cut the design descision making process. Anyone have a favorite well designed box (in the asthetic sense)? Care to share an image? Doesn't need to be your own work neccesarily, I'm looking for any source of inspiration. I've reinserted a link to my friends former businesses site. The work isn't neccesarily purely reflective of his asthetic or body of work, but it gives a good starting point. I'm seeing clean minimalist lines, both for appearence and ease of construction.
A side note that would probably appeal to some here; The family had picked out boxes in Seattle through the funeral director. They apparently were acceptable to them in appearence. Our mutual friend who worked with my friend in his shop was present. Apparently the boxes were veneered MDF. After pointing this out to the family, and explaining the fact that my friend supposedly wouldn't let MDF in his shop, let alone in his work, they put the manufactured boxes back.
Thanks in advance, Coop
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