Revolutionizing the Fashion Industry with a T-Shirt

Propelling fashion forward with sustainable impact and an open-source guide to share knowledge. THE PROBLEM The environmental and landfill impact of the fashion industry is unacceptable. But the problem is complicated and even when fashion brands want to do better, they do not have a roadmap to do so. From choosing materials, to design construction, to manufacturing methods, supply chain ...

Co-founding a Business and a Brand to De-Risk Ocean Plastic

The Oceanworks founding mission was to remove the tons of plastic currently polluting our oceans and repurpose that global resource by using it in new product development. Aly Khalifa, a co-founder of this leading ocean-plastic marketplace, scoured the planet for ocean plastic supply chain partners and greatly expanded the global pool of ocean-plastic-ready manufacturers by working closely with them to ...

Enabling a Culture of Consent and Safety

The SipChip from Undercover Colors: the only drink test with 99.3% accuracy THE PROBLEM Undercover Colors (UCC) came to Designbox with a mission to create positive change and reduce the likelihood and number of sexual assaults. They hired Designbox to lead design and development of a product to enable a person to test their drink for date-rape drugs. THE SOLUTION ...

Alleviating Suffering of NC Farmworkers

Water in the Fields is an effort by Episcopal Farmworkers Ministry (EFwM), to enable life-saving hydration to NC farmworkers working in incredibly harsh conditions. THE PROBLEM Farmworkers work long hours in the hot sun, and they are unable to easily carry water with them as they work. Water is provided by the farm at the 2 ends of the field, ...

Connecting a City with its Creative Ecosystem

Designbox founded SPARKcon in 2006 and built it's growth for the first 10 years of its existence. We determined the need for SPARKcon after many creative meetings and ideation sessions about the future we wanted for Raleigh and for NC. We saw that there was outward excitement and momentum for the technology scene of the area, but the larger creative ...

Portfolio History

PORTFOLIO Feel free to click on any image to jump to our Pinterest Portfolio board. We have a variety of portfolio examples on Pinterest...just quick photos to give a sense of some of the work we do. Pictures do not show strategy...they show...pictures. We have stories and stories of the project intent, creative process and successful result. We'd rather tell you ...