Sickness bag

[2] In 2004, Virgin Atlantic issued a limited edition set of half a million bags in collaboration with designer Oz Dean of 'forcefeed:swede'.

[3] Although the project achieved cult status in a short time amongst the design community, Dean felt that it had run its course and closed it down in 2003.

The printed bags were intended to be on the global fleet of planes for 6 months but only lasted 3, with people walking through the aisles collecting the sets.

The whole set of 20 finalists designs as a framed piece can be found in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse at Heathrow, UK or online at the archived website.

The Imperial War Museum in London has a sea sickness bag issued to D-Day landing troops in its collections.

Non-airline aircrew have occasionally used these bags as improvised urinals or fecal collection devices aboard aircraft lacking on-board toilets.