Fortune Bank: A container for Chinese New Year

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Chinese New Year is the most celebrated holiday in the Chinese culture. It is a time for families and friends to be together and give blessings for the year to come. An essential element of this holiday is the Tray of Togetherness, a tray which is filled with various sweets symbolizing different fortunes and luck. The Fortune Bank is the sibling to the Tray of Togetherness and is a container which holds the debris from the obtained fortunes of the Tray of Togetherness. The Fortune Bank allows the user to be conscious about the amount of good fortune one has obtained for the year. It also eliminates the need to sweep the floors during the New Year and can be easily disassembled for cleaning.

It can be flat packed into a standard #10 letter envelope for it to be mailed easily. Various prototypes were developed, the final design was then laser cut to be able to be mass produced. Red textured paper was used for the package to mimic the traditional red envelope. This product with other selected designs was chosen by a committee to sell at a limited run during the winter holiday in the The Wood CoOp store.