In Case by Materious – materious.com

We are living in an era where public trust in corporations is extremely low; the pillars of capitalism stand on questionable ground. We are hardly surprised at revelations of corruption, fraud, and exorbitant greed perpetrated by the companies that have become so crucial to our health and well-being. How does a society that is founded upon, and so reliant upon, the corporation reconcile these lapses of morality?

From the outside, In Case seems like a fairly typical hard-shell brief case. When opened, however, an integrated, hand-powered paper shredder is revealed, which provides the iniquitious business professional the ability to destroy stealthily any incriminating documents at a moment’s notice.

About Materious
Materious is the husband-and-wife studio of Chicago designers and professors, Stephanie and Bruce Tharp. As with the dual valence of the word, “materious” we are interested in the physical substance as well as the substantiveness of designed objects. Our work ranges from the speculative to the commercial—at times we aim for provocation and perturbation, while at others, sustenance and service.


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