Gabriele Meldaikyte, a product design student at the Royal College of Arts in London, created new concept for an at-home first aid kit. Her compact box contains various salves that allow you to treat cuts, scrapes and burns, and it also has instructions to see how to do so properly with just one hand.
The newly designed first aid kit consists of 3 separate segments, each of them purposed to a general type of injuries: one treats burns, another is for scratch treatment, and the third is supposed to handle with more serious cuts. By such organization the patient does not waste his time in searching inside a chaotic box for the proper accessory.
In most cases of emergency, for example cutting your finger or burning your hand while cooking, there is no doctor around and you can rely on yourself only. Considering this thing, Meldaikyte designed everything in her kit to be fully operable with a single hand. In some cases she designed some special tools, such as a spooled bandage dispenser that could be sliced via built-in blade, which excludes the need of scissors and the long searching for them.
Nerijus Keblys is a graphic designer who supported Gabriele’s work by creating color-coded pictograms which provide instant direction to the required information. Each section is separated into a single tab with instructions written in English.
One of the main advantages of this kit is that it offers some level of order in case of emergency. “Standard first aid kits don’t address how they function in real life, where they are often used by someone who has no medical training,”
Gabriele said. “I was missing communication, information, and clarity…. The biggest issue to me was that there is no system.”
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The newly designed first aid kit consists of 3 separate segments, each of them purposed to a general type of injuries: one treats burns, another is for scratch treatment, and the third is supposed to handle with more serious cuts. By such organization the patient does not waste his time in searching inside a chaotic box for the proper accessory.
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Nerijus Keblys is a graphic designer who supported Gabriele’s work by creating color-coded pictograms which provide instant direction to the required information. Each section is separated into a single tab with instructions written in English.
One of the main advantages of this kit is that it offers some level of order in case of emergency. “Standard first aid kits don’t address how they function in real life, where they are often used by someone who has no medical training,”
Gabriele said. “I was missing communication, information, and clarity…. The biggest issue to me was that there is no system.”
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