Q-Tip Dispenser

Design: Advit Mohunta
Project Type: Student Project
School: MIT Institute of Design
Location: Loni Kalbhor, India
Packaging Contents: Q-Tips/ Cotton Swabs
Packaging Substrate / Materials: Ivory sheet (300 gsm)
Printing Process: Digital printing

The brief was to create a nice dispensing system for Q-Tips. Initially, I started to explore with materials and other forms to make a dispenser but the biggest problem was that the shape of the Q-tips wasn’t a uniform and the buds would get tangled inside. After a lot of tries, I kept the orientation of the dispensing vertical and incorporated a shake to the packaging, thereby making it simple yet fun to dispense a Q-Tip. The packaging is compact, has vibrant colours and fits almost anywhere and easy to carry around. The packaging has a suction cup attached to it so that the packaging can be stuck to any smooth surface such as a mirror.

What’s Unique?
The entire packaging is quite unique. The shake aspect of dispensing an earbud is quite unique to the packaging here. The parallelogram and triangular shape to the box are also special as it aids the dispensing process. The packaging has an indicator window to indicate to the user how many earbuds are left or not