Category: Bag

Antiatoms Handbag

Designers Aránzazu Moreno Berriochoa, Sofía Uquillas Zuloaga, and Alejandra Salvatore make up the Madrid based studio Antiatoms, designing and producing corporate apparel with the aim of making the brand’s values visible in each piece.

The Antiatoms Handbag, part of their Paper Containers collection is a particularly interesting piece. Measuring 20.5 x 24 x 15 cm, this beautifully designed and simple accessory gives a slight twist to the common brown paper bag we are familiar with. Instead, the bag uses 100% high quality leather making it an absolute delight to roll and hold.

I really like the subtle branding at the bottom of the bag – ideally located. Also, given the leather material, I think it would look even better over time. What do you think?

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The Minimal Backpack

Brooklyn based clothing company Outlier have designed this incredibly durable, lightweight and waterproof Minimal Backpack. This design is all about the choice of material – the expensive, non woven dyneema. Perhaps not the easiest material to work with, non woven dyneema is a fibre stronger than steel with almost limitless applications. The fibres are bonded together in multi-directional panels. From making racing sails to replacing steel cords on freight ships to aerospace technology, non woven dyneema fibre is tailored to a huge variety of uses.

One of these uses resulted in the roll top backpack, that can be packed down to fit into a jacket pocket. Available in white, the Minimal Backpack could certainly be used on a daily basis, and would no doubt be a worthy, lasting investment. It doesn’t look too bad either.

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Solid Gray

It’s not every day you come across a real innovation in backpacks. Solid Gray is a solid backpack to carry and protect your personal items.

These bags feature a minimal folding hardshell design, EPDM foam lining and straps for keeping your tablet or laptop safe and secure, two interior compartments for keeping small items handy, a built-in document clip – so your papers don’t end up smashed at the bottom of the bag – and a flexible fit, which means your back will like it just as much as your eyes do.

I love it.

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Tromby Bag by Otaat

Los Angeles based design studio Otaat, directed by creative Albert Chu, have produced the stylish and minimalist Tromby Bag. When Albert contacted me after Minimalissimo previously featured the works of Otaat, to inform me of his latest design, I couldn’t resist sharing it with you all.

The long tote bag features a body with two straps – one exterior & one interior, as well as a single inside pocket, which lines the complete interior. One can carry the Tromby Bag as an extra-long tote with a single opening, or as a medium-length tote with a divider making two pouches.

Available in natural and black cotton canvas as well as Japanese indigo-dyed denim, this tote is so very practical.

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laptopcase.ian

c.dellstrand is a Paris based company founded by Swedish designer Chistoffer Dellstrand. Specialising in working with leather, Dellstrand’s inspiration comes from Scandinavian architecture and interior design, personal belongings and everyday life.

The designs are focused on true craftsmanship, patiently producing unique accessories in which the leathers are hand cut, carefully sewn together, while the edges are painted and polished by hand. One such accessory is the stunning laptopcase.ian. Made from only a single piece of cow leather and measuring 35.5cm x 29cm, this laptop case exudes elegance and is a fine example of the tradition of this craft.

Photography by Lexception and Damien Vignol.

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Sacos de papel

Annett Bourquin and Kerstin Greve are designers from Lisbon, Portugal. Under the label of ANVE, they create objects that take their time, and become more beautiful with life.

Their Sacos de papel bags are particularly interesting. Although the association with an ordinary brown paper bag is easily made (Sacos de papel even means paper bags), rolling it up is actually a beautifully lo-fi and valid way to close a bag.

And of course it also creates a handle out of nothing; love it.

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Pawling Print Studio

Pawling Print is an independent design studio born from the collaboration between sisters Trisha and Janet Snyder, focusing on environmentally responsible production and clean, understated design.

With a background in architecture, engineering and graphic design, as well as a notedly minimalistic aesthetic, the pair crafts patterns and objects for the home in both paper and linen, as well as a very popular line of screenprinted onesies for babies.

Their patterns and illustrations are very geometric and simple in essence, yet very elegant in their understatement. Personally, I’m a big fan of their Lines tote!

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Otaat bags

Otaat is a Los Angeles-based design label headed by creative director Albert Chu. The bags designed by the studio are offering the convenience of bags while minimizing the elements used for decoration only.

Otaat has released a second series of modern canvas carriers. Joining the Bagby and Tu Bag, the Space bag and Canoe bag follow in the same Otaat tradition of multi-function and usability.

I really like the simplicity and lightness of theses bags.

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MAKR Carry Goods

MAKR is the brainchild of Jason Gregory, who designs and patterns every product (and produces all of the hand-sewn small goods in house) along with his team.

Composed mostly of bags, cases and accessories, MAKR products are all invariably designed in clean lines and their apparent simplicity and effortlessness belie quite a sophisticated build. The succint range of materials – canvas, leather, metal and wood – provides the brand with a strong character: sturdy, dependable and beautiful.

I’ve been especially in love with the black canvas and black manitoba utility bag featured here, but I also secretly pine for their work stool…

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siwa・紙和

Naoto Fukasawa, naturally a well known name here at Minimalissimo, collaborates with ONAO, a Japanese paper company, creating a new line of products called siwa・紙和.

The bags are composed of wood pulp and polyolefin using washi-suki paper, a method developed by ONAO, which is extremely strong and resistant to water, despite its paper appearance.

This is why I’m in love for Japanese designs, it’s the way they can take the traditional, and use it in such a contemporary way and of course being functional at the same time. (Thx, Mikaela!)

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