The Designer Pill Box: How a Medical Container Became Something You Carry
Open someone’s bag and you can usually guess the decade their pill box came from. Clear plastic, seven small lids, a colour that only appears in pharmacies. For most of the past thirty years that was the entire design brief: cheap, see-through, unmistakably medical. Then look at what is on the shelf now. Brushed aluminium. Goat leather. Marble. A case shaped like a folded suitcase. A hinged box that looks like it should hold mints, or earrings, or nothing at all. The pill case has quietly split into two products: the one you keep in a drawer, and the one you are willing to put on a table. This is […]