Designer Lisanne Koning Thinks Inside the Box for Refugee Children

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For her thesis project at Design Academy Eindhoven, Lisanne Koning wanted to think outside of the box, specifically by thinking inside of the box. Knowing that relief packages sent to refugees are filled only with essential goods—food, medicine, and clothing—there’s very little room for a children’s toy or game.

With Inside the Box, colorful games, vehicles, and animals are printed on the inside of a relief package so that they can be used as toys for refugee children. As Koning says on her personal website, “In this way, the aid boxes are not wasted, but get a new life, brightening the days of the most vulnerable.” Children can cut out images from the boxes and put them together, including dice which can be used for a board game that has also been printed on the inside.