Being Otago Polytechnic design students, the result is a whole lot funkier than a primary school craft project.
The first and second-year students were also responsible for designing and producing the fittings, branding and packaging for Opop Shop, an outlet set up to sell students' work at the polytechnic's design exhibition in the former Wickliffe Press building in Albany St.
The exhibition opened to the public yesterday and closes on Sunday.
Among the goods for sale are jewellery, posters, greeting cards, fridge magnets, wallets, clothing and books.
Using cardboard meant the shop was cheap to build and completely recyclable, tutor Lisa Richardson said yesterday.
"We found the cardboard, which had been wrapped around bags of stock food, at the recycling centre in Fryatt St. It will go back to the recycling centre in a week."
The exhibition features the work of third-year fashion design, product design, communication design and interior design students.
This year, for the first time, it was decided to involve about 20 first and second-year students in a project to test their creative, time-management and teamwork skills, Miss Richardson said.
Working in two teams, they had just three weeks to create the shop and its fittings.
The shop contents sold so well at the invitation-only opening of the exhibition on Tuesday night, some items sold out and had to be restocked yesterday, Miss Richardson said.
The shop itself had also been a talking point.
"It's been such a success, I think we will do the same project [with another group of students] next year.
"It also gives students an incentive if they know they have somewhere to sell their work," she said.
Students received the proceeds from the sale of their work, she said.
