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Nike Women Berlin — Mailer Box

Disciplines

PACKAGING / ART DIRECTION / SUSTAINABILITY

A shipping box redesigned as a Berlin-specific brand touchpoint — the city's own postal code, 030, carried as the graphic system on 100% recycled board.

Nike — Women Berlin — Mailer Box
The challenge

A mailer box is opened once and then usually thrown away — but for an e-commerce order it is often the first physical contact with the brand. It had to feel considered without adding cost, print steps or non-recyclable material.

The idea

Use the city instead of a new asset. Berlin's own area code, 030, blown up as the dominant graphic on the box - a hyperlocal mark that needed no new artwork licence, no photography, just type at full confidence.

The production approach

One spot colour (black) on uncoated, undyed recycled board, so the grain of the material stays visible rather than being printed over. Nike Women wordmark and swoosh kept small and quiet; the 030 numerals and the sustainability copy on the reverse do the talking.

If we produced it today

Nothing here would change with generative tools - the constraint was never an image problem. Material choice, print process and how ink sits on undyed board are physical questions, resolved with a printer and real proofs, not on screen.

Craft + post

Structural packaging layout, print-ready artwork for uncoated recycled stock, and on-site product photography of the finished box, flat and assembled.

Unfolded, front
Unfolded, frontNike
Unfolded, back — sustainability copy
Unfolded, back — sustainability copyNike
Swoosh, detail
Swoosh, detailNike
Assembled
AssembledNike
Production impact

What the approach changed.

No new asset needed

The area code did the identity work a campaign image usually does.

Material stays visible

Single-colour print on undyed board, nothing hidden under a coating.

Sustainability, stated plainly

Recycled content and CO2 savings printed directly on the box.

Credits
Client Nike European Operations Netherlands B.V.
Concept Neil Riot, Melanie Zelazny
Art Direction / 3D Neil Riot
Agency / Production JXZ GmbH
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