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# First Aid Kit
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/first-aid-kit/
- Published: 2013-06-26T16:29:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:01:07.000Z
- Description: A nicely designed re-invention of the traditional first aid kit and continued consideration of the idea of ‘one-handedness’
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Have you ever cut your finger whilst home alone cooking, and with a bleeding hand tried to dig out the first-aid-kit at the back of your medicine cupboard, followed by the struggle of securing a plaster without making a bloody mess?   
  
[Royal Collage of Art](http://www.rca.ac.uk/?ref=protein.xyz) graduate [Gabrielè Meldaikyte](http://www.gabrielemeldaikyte.com/?ref=protein.xyz) solves the above problem with her project [First Aid Kit](http://www.gabrielemeldaikyte.com/project/home-first-aid-kit?ref=protein.xyz). She has observed that traditional first aid kits are dysfunctional in real life and that an increasing number of people are treating themselves at home. As well as having a nice design that is easy to visualise on people’s kitchen or bathroom walls, it has an interesting and practical element; it is designed to use with only one hand.  
  
We have previously featured Meldaikyte’s project [Multi-Touch Gestures](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/01/multi-touch-gestures?ref=protein.xyz), a design concept that explored her thinking around ‘one-handedness’ in a completely different context; the future of communication and gestures.  
  
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