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Tote Bags book, call for entries

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Posted by Mark Sinclair, 14 December 2009, 17:03    Permalink    Comments (7)

Seasonal tote bag by Playne Design, kindly sent in to CR as a Christmas present

Designer Jitesh Patel is currently putting a book together on tote bag design. It's set to be published next year and the deadline for submissions has just been extended to 15 January...

The basis for Patel's book will be, as he writes on his call for entries website, "to plot the journey of tote bags from their functional roots, to their manifestation today as a fashion statement" and will include "the most striking, inventive, ironic and original of printed examples". 

Tote Bags is set to be published in 2010 by Laurence King. 

For a dose of those "ironic" bags – totes, after all, are a bone of contention for many – check out Patrick's post I am not another smug canvas bag from earlier in the year. Also worth checking out is Dmitri Siegel's designobserver.com piece on canvas bags' green credentials, which we subsequently ran in CR.

Full submissions guidelines for Patel's book are at his blog, toteprints.wordpress.com.

(And, finally, here's a shot of Playne's pressie. They sent the bag over in a small cardboard box that can be re-used to house pencils and the like. Nice.)

7 Comments

Does this, like, include bags for life?
Req
2009-12-14 18:50:58

What I really want is a book of photos of people holding up posters of tote bags
James
2009-12-15 13:16:31

Me too!
Blains
2009-12-15 13:42:33

hmmm ... i'd rather have a book of photos of people holding up posters of tote bags, if - if - there are bull dog clips weighing down the posters of tote bags being held that are being photographed.
i am sam
2009-12-17 09:58:11

I'd like to see a tote bag with a design that shows a picture of a tote bag, being held up by someone with an equally humouros tote bag.
Matt
2009-12-20 01:41:23

I'm looking forward to reading the book and seeing a lot of ironic tote bag fashion statements... :S
Oil H
2010-01-11 16:21:24

If the book gets published... the book of photographs of people holding up tote bags weighed down by bulldog clips I mean... will there be a poster to promote the book?

Because it would be great if the poster was an illustration of a tote bag onto which was screen printed a picture of a poster of a tote bag, weighed down by bulldog clips, out of which you could see the book cover emerging, and it would be great if the actual cover of this book was a photograph of the promotional poster.

Just saying.
tim Spencer
2010-01-12 10:57:54

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