Bento Box

Nourish Your Self-

Expression

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Closed bento box wrapped in an elastic band

Chris Rinehart and Gabriel Cuddy sanding wood boxes against a graffitied wall

Wooden lid with a Bonfire Supply Company graphic printed on featuring the rest of the bento box in the background

Old invoicing envelope from The Sheldon Dry Goods Company in Columbus, OH — The inspiration for our design direction, found in the floorboards of Bonfire Red

Bento box inserts for the story and materials & instructions

Open bento box, emphasis on the pencil and paint trays

Wooden tray containing colored pencils, a brush and a pen

Close-up of both stained and unfinished pencil trays

Palette of water color pigments in a routed wooden tray

Close-up of colored pencils divided by color

Coloring book pages featuring outdoor landscapes

Coloring book pages in a stack featuring the bonfire page on top

Brent Presley assembling bento boxes with all the pieces laid out on the table

Behind the shoulder of Tara Wren trimming coloring book pages

Close-up of tray in bento box with colored pencils, a pen and a brush

All pieces of the bento box laid out on a table

Like food, art is created to nourish and satiate. We create art to show love, to show anger, to unite. We wanted to create a mini bento-inspired art kit to show our immense gratitude and appreciation for our clients and partners and provide them with the tools to nurture their own self-expression through creativity.

Historical Inspiration

Bento boxes were created as a means of necessity in the preservation of on-the-go food. Today, they symbolize the act of caring for oneself or a loved one through nourishment. It's a language of love and expression—enjoying the impermanence of preparing and eating a meal in a world of acceleration. It's living slowly, if only for a few moments.

Curated Experience

We repurposed sourced wood bento boxes as our core on-the-go container. We created carefully planned layers of modest yet thoughtful art supplies, along with a set of inspirational coloring pages of our team’s favorite things (leveraging Photoshop AI as our collaborator). Each aspect of the curated experience was ideated, hand-crafted, illustrated, printed, cut, and assembled by the Bonfire Red team. Additionally, we found independent makers with some eco-friendly materials, from handmade paper (Cobenick Studios) to soil-based watercolors (The Art of Soil).

Savor the Moment

This special hand-crafted art kit represents an invitation for recipients to create something for themselves or someone they care about. And perhaps most importantly, to take advantage of those fleeting moments to slow down, to create.

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