by Robert Wigmore
The concept of BeeBox was a stylized bee enclosure with a sound infusion of generated bee noises. The enclosure was designed to be a fusion between a man made lantern and a natural beehive. The beeswax elements of the piece were made to show the natural aspects of a real beehive juxtaposed with the wooden and electronic parts that were based on a lantern. The wooden fame is made up of hexagon shapes and were included because of the relationship between hexagons and the natural shape and pattern of beeswax. Usually in a lantern there would be a light, but this was excluded and replaced by an amp to produce the bee noises. The light was left out of the design because the main focus of BeeBox was bees and including a light took away from this aspect. Instead a lamp style pull switch was included as a less obvious way of including lantern design.