I'm going to try the "less is more" approach for describing this project: one sentence a picture!
My project, the Hidden Coast, was a featureless bronze cube on the outside.
On the inside, however, it was a series of archetypal scenes representing different phases of a story or life.
The box acts as a four-sided drawer... the scenes can be pulled out of the interior.
To pull scenes out of the box, the user has a single removable magnetic handle.
When you move the handle over the box, it will click into place on one of the six "purchase points" (one on each side).
Pulling the handle reveals the scene... once the scene is all the way out, the handle disconnects.
Each scene has a caption...
... and a one-inch-tall man, experiencing life on the shore of his island.
The box has two sides... there's a scene underneath as well, if you flip it on its head.
So, what seems at first to be an unopenable box...
...ultimately reveals eight micro-stories (click the links to see the eight captions).
So that's my database narrative / horoscope / diorama / wildly inefficient dresser design. There are a few small problems (sticky drawers and loose magnets, primarily) but considering I did it in three days, I'm pretty happy with it.