Recent RISD graduate Joseph Guerra created the Oaxaca Case as a way to look at the standard businessman briefcase in a whole new way. The briefcase is now re-imagined and referencing the basic plastic shopping baskets you see in every store with the material and open pattern.
Laser cut from a single sheet of polypropylene and then scored by a CNC milling machine, it goes from a two-dimensional patterned sheet to an object ready to be used. What once was associated with “luxury and gentrification” is now scaled back to utilitarian purposes and can be used for work or a day at the beach.
Spats on 07.30.2012 at 23:37 PM
I hope your laptop is waterproof.
diane on 07.31.2012 at 08:39 AM
Hi this “briefcase” needs a liner, much of what i carry would simply fall out. beach yes office no, sorry. D
L on 05.08.2013 at 22:13 PM
This is one of the most depressing objects i’ve seen in a while. It reminds me of the late 80s, when my country was still under a totalitarian regime and people used to carry groceries and bottles in similar white plastic net bags.