Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Monday, July 21, 2025

Cardboard Flaps and Beyond

What if, instead of working in the electrical industry, I was destined to be a structural packaging designer—you know, one of those heroic figures who craft cardboard into a series of flaps that fold together into shipping boxes?

What if I had an innate gift for flaps?

Maybe IKEA would have discovered my genius and hired me to design the perfect box for shipping a bookshelf with 302 parts and a pictograph instruction sheet. Maybe I’d rise through the ranks—promoted to Senior Vice President of Hardware Omission in the Shipping Department.

I’d be the one who decides whether to leave out a critical long screw or a random, odd-sized bolt required to complete Step 18.

Imagine my legacy now.

—Mitchell Hegman

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