Container thoughts

The object I am working with for the containment project is a Vogue magazine. The first thought that crossed my mind when I had to do packaging was that magazines are not only sent to peoples homes, but also to stores, nail salons doctors offices and a variety of other locations.  My goal for the container is to have a package for the magazine and then the package could transform into a stand.  When something is on a stand, or is raised higher then other objects, it gives it a sense of importance or hierarchy to the object.  By putting a Vogue magazine on a stand it shows that it is of higher quality then the other magazines that it is next to. Generally, when someone walks into a nail salon, doctor’s office, etc. there is a mess of magazines on a table somewhere. By having Vogue magazine on a stand it is the first magazine that someone would see. Additionally, it is on top of all the other tables and it would be the easiest to grab, without the stand someone would have to either dig for it or not even know that it is in the pile. 


Here are some thing that i am working on. . . 

So my thought is that when a magazine comes in the mail, instead of having that plastic wrap on it thats annoying to tear off, the package can be a bit more...fun. I want the act of opening the container to be like opening a present.

 One of my ideas was to have the container be similar to a box that had the silhouette of a dress on the front so that the customer would have to untie or undress to get to the magazine. Then the two flaps would latch together in the back and form a stand. However this didnt work because the product (VOGUE) was covered and the customer could not know what the object is that they are buying. 

This was a similar idea. Instead of having the whole cover be a dress it would only be the top half of a dress, or maybe some would call it a blouse. But the general idea was the. It would untie and latch in the back. Since it was a similar idea there were similar problems, like you could not see the object name.