Makin' A Bag

Back to last semester again!

The task was to design and make a bag. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Think about how long bags have been around for and all of the different kinds of bags that already exists. There isn’t any point in just recreating your own assumptions of what makes a bag. I was told be to “be innovative!”

There was a lot of sketching ideas to get to my final concept but, to tell the truth, trying to draw fabric is not something I have a lot of success with. None are worth sharing.

Here’s what I came up with!

Right now is where I acknowledge that my concept page is a fairly rookie attempt, but just tolerate and accept that i'm not a graphic designer. Also ignore the corny name... I'm not doing marketing either.

The idea (if you can’t tell from the concept page) is that the bag is made from a number of different shaped panels that are threaded together using shoelaces. The strap is a little bit crude but after having punched nearly 200 eyelets into the fabric by hand, I’d well and truly lost interest.

The important thing to note here is that most of what I make is a first concept and more than anything it functions as proof of concept, especially at this early stage.

I hope never to use a sewing machine again.

Next time I'll share some more successful projects from the past. I'm gonna go sketch from fruit.