2026 | Student

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Worry-Free Cat Home

Entrant

College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University

Category

Packaging Design - Animals & Pets

Client's Name

Shenzhen Greensong Design Co., Ltd

Country / Region

China

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About The Entry

The Carefree Cat Home Box is an innovative multi-functional pet packaging set exclusively designed for cats. Breaking the limitation of traditional pet packaging that merely serves storage and transportation purposes, this design adopts the core concepts of multi-purpose utility, low-carbon sustainability and one-stop pet care. It redefines the functional value of pet packaging and adapts to diverse scenarios including novice cat raising, pet travel and temporary pet boarding, delivering outstanding practical innovation and ecological value.

Revolutionizing conventional packaging logic, the product appears as a standard packaging box for cat litter and cat food, fulfilling basic transportation, storage and commodity display functions. Its original modular paper liner structure provides effective cushioning and protection during logistics. All paper components are detachable and reconstructible, which can be assembled with the outer box into a full set of daily cat supplies, including a cat nest with a scratching board, a simple cat litter box, a litter shovel and a cat food bowl, realizing efficient secondary utilization of packaging materials.

Crafted entirely from eco-friendly paper materials with no chemical additives, the package is fully recyclable and degradable. Following the waste-reduction design principle, it minimizes pet product waste and complies with global sustainable packaging trends. Unlike traditional single-function pet packaging, this design deeply integrates packaging carriers with practical pet tools, satisfying basic daily cat raising needs with a single set.

Effectively solving common pain points such as cumbersome procurement for new cat owners and incomplete equipment for pet boarding, the design achieves a one-stop pet care solution and greatly improves breeding convenience. It perfectly balances structural creativity, practical functionality, environmental sustainability and commercial applicability, offering an innovative upgrading direction for the pet packaging industry with humanistic warmth and pioneering design thinking.

Credits

Shenzhen Greensong Design Co., Ltd
Li Pengfei
College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
Yu Keer
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