#clamshell box

[bunnyholdndaisy]

storage clamshell box I made for Marchie’s @catgirlanomaly hrt supplies, thank you marshie for your design ideas 🦋

[zhalfirin-binds]

WIP - clamshell box of my binding of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Preparing the boards

There was a lot of meticulous cutting involved. I tried to be as precise as possible and kept all the cut parts because I figured one of the difficult things might be to get all the long and slender parts on the case without getting any skew. So I glued one piece and used cut out parts for spacing.

I feel like the spaced design with black and white spaces (the ones to go and the ones to keep for this design) have appeal too though. So that might be an idea for another design.

One thing I learned with this design was. Check if you have a paper that works with what you're planning. I could have gone with one plain colour, but I wanted a pattern that kind of worked with the paper that was already on the book as well as sort of reflect the inside.

Turned out many did not... especially with the marbled papers it was often hard to discern the title.

[nocturnus33]

How to Make a Clamshell Box

I’m making a bunch of clamshell boxes for the “fancy” edition of Dan Ivec’s book, On the Stairs. So I thoughts I’d share the fun, with a tut

I recently learned that making clamshell boxes for your books is not difficult. I found this tutorial, which is simple and clear. I hope it will be useful for you.

[levynite]

My first ever clamshell box to keep my mini Oracle cards in! (Deck design made available on @copperbadge's site)

I used some slightly damaged, whoops wrong side of the backing misprinted paper home made bookcloth to cover the whole thing so I won't show some angles but on the whole, not actually difficult! Just ignore all the glue splodgings, working this small is harder than a regular book size

Tutorial video by DAS Bookbinding

[sosnastudios]

a double-wall, extra-chunky custom clamshell chisel box for a client and his favorite chisel “BLUNDT”

it has a birdseye maple label and supports to keep the chisel locked in place when the box is closed.

[sheeprints]

Memento, 2015-2022

Beth Sheehan

Nine panels and a time-capsule housed in a clamshell box. Prints: Inkjet printing, letterpress printing and trace monotypes. Time-capsule: Inkjet printing, sand from childhood home, pebbles, clovers, eyelash.4 inches x 5 inches x 1 inch (closed).​9 pages. Edition of 18. 

 Due to my lack of episodic memory, I have become obsessed with the documentation of my past. The photographs in this piece are inkjet prints of Polaroids that I took while visiting my childhood home in 2014. While home, I also documented my childhood journals. The trace-monotype text on these nine panels is from an excerpt of one of my entries. The act of re-writing the entry through trace monotype on each panel for the edition afforded me a kind of catharsis. Through the repetition, my aim was to solidify the memory of that day in my mind forever.

The letterpress printed text was derived from my attempt to recall the events of the journal entry a year after repeatedly re-writing it. So much of the entry has disappeared from my memory, leaving me with only hints and feelings of the day long past.​

Finally, the clamshell box and time-capsule were created 7 years after the original prints were made. Science suggests that the cells in our bodies replace themselves every 7 years. This fact is particularly interesting to me when contemplating how memories are likely stored and transferred to new cells during this regeneration process. By housing the remnants of the memory in the new clamshell box, the memories remain protected and are given a new context.​

[paste-n-paper]

When I was contacted by a client to make a box for their origami paper, I was ecstatic. My business started making origami cards and ornaments, and I have a huge stash of origami paper. So this request was very special to me.

Because they needed to get to the bottom of the box to get the sheets out, I suggested a modified clamshell box with open sides (sometimes referred to as a French Tray).

This was my very first clamshell box, so I spent a bunch of time researching, mocking up and learning before I made this final box. There were still some bumps in the road, but the final box is something I'm immensely proud of.

Thank you to my client for their trust and enthusiasm for this project!

Swipe through to see it from all angles. And if you'd like to commission your own custom box, remember you can use the contact form on my site or send me a DM. I'd love to make something special for you!

[creative-liberty]

Portal sketch book with Undertale book box.

as far as I can tell the pictures inside the book box were drawn by @zenamiarts I wasn’t able to get ahold of them so I’m not completely sure. If anyone knows please let me know so I can properly credit the artist who took the time to make this simplistic yet dynamic art.