Structural Packaging — Retail

Jewelry & Presentation Packaging

A family of presentation boxes, trays, and travel cases developed for retail jewelry and watches — rigid construction engineered for repeat handling on a sales floor.

Cloth-wrapped jewelry gift box, closed and open
Client
Chippenhook Co.
Role
Structural packaging design
Materials
Cloth-wrapped rigid board, foam and satin interior, metal emblem hardware
Software
Autodesk Inventor, KeyShot

Retail jewelry packaging has a job that print packaging doesn't: it gets opened and closed by a salesperson dozens of times a day, on camera, in front of a customer, and it needs to still feel precise on the thousandth open. The hinge, the lid-to-base tolerance, and how the lining seats around a ring or a pendant all get designed against that repeat-use case, not just the first unboxing.

Ring box

The box above uses a wrapped-cloth shell over rigid board with a lift-off lid, a metal emblem inlaid at the seam, and a foam-and-satin interior contoured to hold the piece without gapping. The interior geometry — the notch, the ridge height, the base cavity — was modeled to spec before the vendor cut a single sample.

Formats & finishes

The same structural logic scales across formats — a compact ring-and-earring set, a multi-drawer jewelry chest for a larger collection, and softer retail finishes for gift and children's lines. Each keeps the lift-off or hinged-lid mechanism consistent while the interior tooling changes to fit what it's holding.

Travel & presentation cases

Watch and accessory travel cases use a firmer shell — zip closures, a rigid EVA or board core, and a lining built to keep multiple pieces from contacting each other in transit.

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