CONTAINER INCLUDING A DECORATIVE FILM AND BLANK FOR MAKING THE SAME

1 . A container constructed from a blank of foldable sheet material, said container comprising a decorative film attached to an exterior surface of said container, said container comprising:

a top wall and an opposing bottom wall, a back wall and an opposing front wall, and a pair of opposing side walls, wherein a first one of said walls and an adjacent second one of said walls comprises said decorative film, said decorative film comprising a holographic lens pattern thereon, said holographic lens pattern displaying an image of an object suspended within said container when both of said first and second walls are viewed together.

2 . A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein said holographic lens pattern comprises a first holographic region and a second holographic region.

3 . A container in accordance with claim 2 wherein a first holographic region on said first wall is adjacent to a first holographic region on said second wall.

4 . A container in accordance with claim 2 wherein said first holographic region visually creates said object and said second holographic region visually creates a volume of space.

5 . A container in accordance with claim 4 wherein said volume of space appears to extend between said object and said exterior surface of said container such that said object appears to be a three-dimensional object.

6 . A container in accordance with claim 2 wherein said first holographic region and said second holographic region appear to move with respect to said walls when said container is viewed from different angles.

7 . A container in accordance with claim 2 wherein said second holographic region appears to at least partially surround a corresponding first holographic region.

8 . A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein said object is a sphere.

9 . A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein each of said walls are substantially square and said walls are substantially equal in size.

10 . A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein said holographic lens pattern comprises a metallic layer.

11 . A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of said first wall and said second wall includes a region void of said holographic lens pattern.

12 . A container in accordance with claim 11 wherein said region void of said holographic lens pattern extends substantially along a perimeter of at least one of said first wall and said second.

13 . A container in accordance with claim 11 wherein said region void of said holographic lens pattern comprises a metallic layer.

14 . A method of constructing a container from a blank of foldable sheet material, wherein the container includes a decorative film including a holographic lens pattern, said method comprising:

providing a blank comprising a plurality of panels connected along a plurality of fold lines;

providing the decorative film on a first panel of the plurality of panels and a second panel of the plurality of panels such that the second panel is adjacent to the first panel; and

configuring the holographic lens pattern to visually create an image of a three-dimensional object suspended within the container when the first and second panels are viewed together.

15 . A method in accordance with claim 14 wherein configuring the holographic lens pattern further comprises configuring the holographic lens pattern with a first visually created region and a second visually created region.

16 . A method in accordance with claim 15 wherein configuring the holographic lens pattern with a first visually created region and a second visually created region further comprises:

configuring the first visually created region to display the three-dimensional object; and

configuring the second visually created region to display a volume of space at least partially surrounding the three-dimensional object.

17 . A method in accordance with claim 14 wherein providing the decorative film on a first panel of the plurality of panels and a second panel of the plurality of panels further comprises providing a decorative film comprising a region void of the holographic lens pattern.

18 . A method in accordance with claim 14 wherein configuring the holographic lens pattern to visually create an image of a three-dimensional object further comprises configuring the lens pattern to visually create an image of a sphere.

19 . A method in accordance with claim 14 wherein providing the decorative film on a first panel of the plurality of panels and a second panel of the plurality of panels further comprises providing a decorative film comprising a metallic layer.

20 . A method in accordance with claim 14 wherein providing a blank comprising a plurality of panels connected along a plurality of fold lines further comprises providing a blank comprising a plurality of quadrangular-shaped panels.

21 . A container constructed from a blank of foldable sheet material, said container comprising a decorative film attached to an exterior surface of said container, said container comprising:

at least two side walls adjacent to one another, wherein said at least two side walls comprise said decorative film, said decorative film comprising a holographic lens pattern thereon, said holographic lens pattern displaying an image of an object suspended within said container when both of said side walls are viewed together.

22 . A container in accordance with claim 21 further comprising a bottom wall adjacent to said at least two side walls, said container forming a pyramid.

23 . A container in accordance with claim 21 further comprising:

a bottom wall adjacent to at least one of said at least two side walls, said container forming a polyhedron.

24 . A container in accordance with claim 21 further comprising:

a bottom wall adjacent to said at least two side walls; and

a top wall opposing said bottom wall, said container forming a cube.