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The importance of the corner

Vaughn analyses an often-overlooked part of Apple’s packaging, the fibreboard corner in the shipping box:

these fiberboard corners are mostly empty (i dissected one), have tremendous crush resistance (i applied 168lbs to one of them by standing on it), spread external forces over a large internal surface, and contain one material and one binder (good for recycling).

YJ Soon Links July 30, 2012March 10, 2024

On Steve

On Steve by yjsoon

Drawn on an iPad.

YJ Soon Links October 6, 2011March 10, 2024

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I'm a teacher, programmer, designer, and supposed marketing- and business-person at Tinkertanker, a Singapore company I co-founded in 2011.

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