Medical Kits

Civil War Medical Kit. Link here.

Philadelphia Medical Kit. Link here.

Link here.

Tom Sachs, Artist

Resin Kit. Link here.

Catie Newll, Artist

Detroit really is as desolate as people make it out to be. Have you ever seen an abandoned high-rise with its windows smashed out? You can see that there. People have been arsoning their houses to collect insurance. Artist Catie Newell, in collaboration with nonprofit Imagination Station, has embarked on a project called Salvaged Landscapes in which she collects burned and scrapped lumber from decimated neighborhoods and creates installations in uninhabitable buildings.

Stacking The Paper, Spring 2011

Words To Consider

Rug Lounger

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Secrets and Kits

Claes Oldenburg, The Soap at Baton Rouge, 1990. Soap is cast resin, bed is vinyl filled with aluminum silicate, serigraph on acetate sheet. James Goodman Gallery, inc. Link here.

Lucas Samaras at LA County Museum of Art. Link here.

Cardboard Shoes

Cardboard Shoes. Found at Lost at e minor. Link here.

Secret Compartments (shh...hide it)

Marie Laveau's Complete Guide to Revenge and Reward. Found on Behance Network. Link here to see the secret compartments.

Link here to see the secret compartments.

36 Secret Compartments. Link here.

Lockets. This is just one example. You can search the internet for many more. Some lockets have complex systems.

Bronze Puzzle Vas with Hidden Compartment. Link here.

Chair

Recessed Space (shh...hide it)

From Design Boom. Link here for more designs.

People would have thought that these are normal notepads, but once you open it up you can slot your Ipod Nano into the specially designed compartment. From Scripta.

Cookie Mug

Designed to be used on the go, Heinz’s new ketchup packet has a recessed cup for dipping and a tear-off end for squeezing. (H.J. Heinz Co. via Associated Press).

A holding place for the tea bag.

Packaging

Check out packaging designs. These solutions can help with the secret compartments assignment.

Janice Lee’s lyrical novel, Daughter, was a finalist in the Plonsker Prize sponsored by Lake Forest Press.

Fine art limited edition is an autopsy kit with hand-made surgical tools, casts of octopi, and a hidden compartment with pages of the novel printed on transparent paper laid over a bed of sand.

From Packaging Diva. Link here.

From Tree Hugger. Link here to see more.

From Packaging Connections. Link here.

From Vizeer. Link here for a few more images.

Lastly, this pop-up playhouse called My Space designed by Liya Mairson. Perfect for small spaces with little square footage or storage, this bad boy actually folds up flat. Link here.