Kasturi Incense Stick

Design: Niharika Bedse
Location: India
Project Type: Student Project
School: Unitedworld Institute of Design ( Karnavati University )
Packaging Contents: Incense Sticks
Printing Process: Digital Printing/Screen printing

Incense sticks (Agarbatti) play an important role in Indian religious beliefs and are also regarded as important in worshipping. As the general public uses these incense sticks, they believe that different fragrances of incense sticks should be used on different days to express gratitude to their respective gods also many of them do not stick to a single fragrance incense box.

This results in a massive stack of sticks in the temple placed in the house, and due to packing limits, the packaging does not adhere to its original form, causing the essence to dissipate, and thus the sticks become an unusable item.

Kasturi Incense Sticks packaging tackles the challenge by constructing a hexagonal cylindrical form with six triangular prisms on each side of the hexagon. It comprises six different fragrances that can be secured by a flexible opening and closing. The package can carry 180 sticks (30 in each triangular prism).