Stickers on boxes
Stickers on Boxes is a prototyping tool for generating objects that communicate ideas quickly and simply, it aims to accelerate and improve the sharing and development of ideas in collaborative contexts.
The tool currently consists of cardboard boxes in 3 'handheld' sizes, and a sticker catalogue of over 300 different symbols, shapes and icons. From current and past technologies to body parts, we have attempted to make these descriptors cover as broad and comprehensive a range of things as possible. By selecting, arranging and attaching the stickers you can begin to build up a sketch of an object, its potential features and uses.
"Getting to the wrong thing sooner" is a really important statement, not only for this process and tool, but for what we see as the remit of Anvil as a whole. We believe at this and other stages of idea development, things should be made a lot quicker and iterated in much greater numbers, with a greater disregard for discerning between 'good' and 'bad' ideas.
Here are some examples of 'Stickers on boxes' used in different contexts: