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Two walls, one picture
The silhouette scene lives on the inner cylinder; the windows are cut in the outer one. If the two walls drift during wrapping, the shepherd misses his sheep.
THE LANTERN THAT ISN'T A LANTERN
A double-wall cylinder with arched die-cut windows. Behind every window sits a printed silhouette scene — and on a curved wall, "behind" is a moving target.
WHY IT’S HARD
WHERE THE QUESTIONS START.
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Arches on a curve
An arched window is two curves at once — the arch itself, wrapped around the cylinder's curve. Die-cut edges want to lift exactly where the eye lands first.
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A lid with a loop
The ribbon loop has to sit dead centre on a round lid, and the lid has to close over a double wall without shaving the foil rim. Tolerance is the whole design.
HOW WE SOLVED IT
STRUCTURE FIRST.
The registration problem was solved on the flat sheet, not on the finished box: the inner scene is printed with a deliberate offset map, calculated from the cylinder's circumference, so the wrap lands the scene inside the windows instead of near them.
Window edges are scored before cutting, and the outer wall is wrapped in two passes — which sounds slower, and is, but it keeps the arch edges flat through humidity changes in transit.
The result is a box that reads as a lantern from across a room and as a printed scene up close.
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