Build a post box

Everyone wants their portfolio to make a good impression when it arrives on a potential employer or client's desk. The secret to making yours stand out from the rest is to create a piece of packaging that can transport your digital portfolio, show off your design skills and still be strong enough to take on Royal Mail.

In the following tutorial, we show you how to create your own piece of structurally sound packaging using individual materials and unusual finishing without the use of glue. You'll discover how to use FreeHand to draw up a box net and you can follow the practical steps needed for mapping and transferring your template onto your chosen special material. We round things up by showing you how to assemble your glue-free structure. Plus, you'll also find tips on how to finish and decorate the box's surface.

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The Creative Bloq team is made up of a group of design fans, and has changed and evolved since Creative Bloq began back in 2012. The current website team consists of eight full-time members of staff: Editor Georgia Coggan, Deputy Editor Rosie Hilder, Ecommerce Editor Beren Neale, Senior News Editor Daniel Piper, Editor, Digital Art and 3D Ian Dean, Tech Reviews Editor Erlingur Einarsson and Ecommerce Writer Beth Nicholls and Staff Writer Natalie Fear, as well as a roster of freelancers from around the world. The 3D World and ImagineFX magazine teams also pitch in, ensuring that content from 3D World and ImagineFX is represented on Creative Bloq. 

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