
Another Pencil Case
by Whitney Bai
Categories: Freelance, Softgoods • Tags: black leather, handmade, leather, leather bag, leather case, leather craft, pencil case
by Whitney Bai
Categories: Freelance, Softgoods • Tags: black leather, handmade, leather, leather bag, leather case, leather craft, pencil case
by Whitney Bai
Beauty industry has a new way of looking at people’s skin abnormality. Beauty marks, they call them. Flawlessness is out, perfect imperfections are in. Leather, is from skin too, and it has “imperfections”, such as fat marks, blemishes, freckles, stamps, wrinkles and scars, yet they provide outstanding carving, embossing and dyeing characteristics. Most of these imperfections are considered what make a piece of leather “unusable” and get cut off and discarded. As long as cows are getting killed by meat […]
Categories: ID Projects, Softgoods • Tags: animal, bag, beauty, blemish, cow, cow hide, craft, craftsmanship, design for discourse, discursive design, fat, freckles, handmade, hide, imperfection, leather, leather bag, marks, medium, messenger bag, perfect, perfection, purse, should bag, skin, small, stamps, tools, twin bags, wrinkle
by Whitney Bai
Near the end of last semester, I was given a bag of leather scraps for free to make some small leather goods. It got me so interested in leather as a soft and durable material so I ordered some big sheets and essential tools and started making some leather goods. At this stage I’m still trying to understand different types of leather, how to manipulate each kind and how to add hardware to make the best out of it. […]
Categories: Freelance, Softgoods • Tags: 3D, hand stitched, handmade, leather, leather bag, leather glasses sleeve, leather portfolio, leather pouch, product design