I crafted a printed card deck and boxes for the U.S. Surgeon General to hand out on his Made to Connect Tour to colleges and universities around America to talk with students about loneliness and social isolation. The cards provide small example actions for someone to take as part of the 5 for 5 Challenge, where participants take 5 minutes for 5 days to practice social connection exercises. The printed deck is a counterpart to a digital deck available here.
I developed printed prototypes of the cards that would be given out at the events on a home printer before they were made to test out sizing for print. The final cards are given out without a box, so since there would only be 20 boxes ever made, I created a dieline and lasercut the packaging that Vivek would carry around to the events.
The digital cards were first sketched as only ever digital, and I created the illustrations in 3D using Spline. The style mimicked the look of our style for the Social connection and Loneliness advisory work. All of the scenes were exporting to static images for the printed cards, below are some of my favorites.
I also worked on the design for the digital deck counterpart, below is a recording of an early prototype, the card movement interactions were later removed to aid phone accessibility and make way for a lighter overall touchpoint.
I used Spline to create original models for the box and to advertise the cards.
For the fabrication nerds in the crowd, here are some shots of the setup in the cutter.
