About 3 days ago I sat down at the drawing board and began to create a new box design. After creating the compact box, pro box, flower box and toolbox series, this time a vertical display box. A set of 3d printed plastic display stands that allowed you to store flower remedies vertically.
Designing a vertical box that will print out on a 3d printer has its challenges. 3d printers print layer by layer and build up the 3d model. This can easily be done ( with some caveats ) but it needs to be lower than 240mm high due to the space limitations the printer has. 240mm cubed is the maximum this printer model can print.
I even managed to sneak a water drop logo into the design.
The trick here is that 15ml flower remedy bottles are 90mm high. Printing vertically would need to allow double that to allow bottles to be taken out of the box. So that pretty much rules out a straight up and down, skyscraper design.However, the way around this is a trick I learned when creating the last series – the flower box. Each of these is shaped like a cone. This gives you more surface area to display bottles. In fact, the cone design allowed me to make a flower box that could fit 35 x 15ml remedies, whereas the Pro Box has a max capacity of 25 remedies because of how they are spaced.
A cone shape allows me to create a vertical box as well as fit more remedies into the same space. The Compact Boxes can fit more in the 3d printable 240mm space, but they are crammed. Those are designed for drawers, not to show off your flower remedies.
So, now a 5th series is being designed. These have a different use-case than the rest of my designs and are uniquely shaped. As a 3d printer can print whatever shape you like, you aren’t confined to square designs. My earlier designs were square but that was because I was learning the 3d drafting software and also had a need for a basic design to restock.
Now, after a year and a half of designing 3d models, I am designing more interesting shapes.
As it’s name suggest, the Display Box series are designed to display flower remedies vertically. The series is split in two. One set of designs for a clinic and the more deluxe designs for a shop window display or a stand at a trade expo.
The first designs are a sharks tooth design. These are called ‘book’ wedges and are designed to be used as a separator for clinical manuals. The larger wedges can be used as book ends.
The deluxe designs are similar to how expensive jewelry or watches are displayed. They show off 3 or 5 remedies. I chose these numbers because one design is for the 15ml combinations that come in a series / set of 3. The stand that holds 5 is for the new ‘Bio-Markers’ kits.
It was the Bio-Marker kits that started me drawing up these designs. The Bio-Markers are a set of 5 flower remedies from a particular flower group / genius. The Pineapples were the first bio-marker set to be released and these measure the 5 stages of stress. I created a Pineapple-shaped 3d printed box for these originally. But I had the idea at the time to create a vertical box that resembled a thermometer.
As the flower remedies measures 5 escalating stages of stress – from temporary to rising pressure to boiling pint – I wanted a vertical display box that visually gave you a clue as to the ranking of the remedy. This visual indicator is designed to give the practitioner a subliminal cue as to the issue they are working with. This vertical rating system is designed specially for kinesiology practitioners who ‘test up’ flower remedies.
The vertical placement of the remedies is not the only visual indicator. The ‘Pro’ series of the Display Box is printed in blue, green or red colors indicating the botanical sub-family the remedy comes from. As I have spent nearly 30 years mapping these three sub-groups to human beings, the color and vertical placement tells you a lot of information without needing to pick up a book.
Blue flower remedies in position 3 is the mental body issue that is at the tipping point, whereas a red flower remedy in position 5 tells you this is an intense karmic pattern that has long-term influence on the person. Green remedies in position 1 indicate everyday emotional problems that will fade in a week or two such as a current emergency.
The Display Box was essentially designed to provide storage as well as information. The first design was to create a box for the new Bio-Markers for Toxicity Kit that is due for release. After drawing up several versions – basic to deluxe – I then began to flesh out a catalogue of 10 designs. The emphasis being on creating a showcase that can be used in retail stores.
At the time of writing, the blank designs are nearly all drafted and I am printing off the first prototypes to check on the quality. Each model can be customized with custom logo’s and printed in a wide range of colors depending on what the customers color palette is. Now that the basic display cases are done, I want to design some more elaborate versions that have credit card readers, iPad frames for slideshows, RFID chips so customers can scan your contact details / special offers, etc at a trade expo.
Now that the product display cases are done, it should be easy to adapt the designs to create a payment system / cash register that matches the designs. I plan to use these when I visit trade shows but am also making them available on the website to purchase.
The full range should be available in a week or two and the first half dozen designs will be available later this week.
That’s all for now. Stay tuned for the Bio-Markers for Toxicity announcement. As well as the Bio-Markers Pro Set containing the Bio-Markers for Stress, Toxicity ( and others ) coming very soon. Kinesiology practitioners who want to road-test the set before release can get in contact at info@skyflowers.co and you can be one of the first to try the set.
Thanks for watching,
Brendan Rohan } founder of Clinical Flower Therapy