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Brilliant Disguises

By Steve Portigal - March 22, 2007

in Object Culture

In response to yesterday's post about iPod theft, Robert Nightingale sends along images of his iBook project that builds on the Idea of Product disguise, playing on the concept of the "ibook" and inspired by recent trips in developing countries where one doesn't really want to advertise the possession of an ipod, And who steals a book?

If you want your own, try MAKE's Hollow Book, a project we learned of during an in-home interview, where our participant was using it to store her iPod!

(actual fieldwork image!)Meanwhile, Jon Stewart reported yesterday that the books behind President Bush in a recent press conference are in fact used for candy storage.

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dave

17 years ago

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Times change and then they don't...

In the late sixties, I housed a transistor radio in a book so that I could listen to the World Series at school.
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tom

17 years ago

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are you serious? do you attach little books to your ears to hide the earphones too??
i cant remember the last time i saw someone bring an ipod out in public, but everyone still knows who has one
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