PEER COMMENTS - Project 3

1. Sam Whipp

2. Kate Barclay

3. Hyo-Ju Cho

4. Emily Soares

5. Jen Jun Zhu

PROJECT 3 - UPCYCLING: Rock the Casbag (Cassette Bag)

For this project, I chose to make something that is different, that celebrates the use of recyled materials. I chose tape ( the total of 30 ; 24 gold and transparent and 6 black tapes). Making the project for me is really exciting, since I get to experiments with materials that isn't usually used to make a bag.

I chose to make a bag using tapes, because the tapes I found in reverse garbage has a very lux color-- the base part is transparent and the circle-y thing in the middle colored gold. When you line them together you can really see that it makes an interesting and unusual patterns.


I experienced several difficulties making these cause the tapes are very wobbly and it falls apart when I touch it. I like the use of the black, medium size lace as it gives more edge to it. The thing that I could work on is the construction of the prototype since it's kinda rough, although I have to say decent effort is put into the construction-- maybe other materials should be chosen instead of the ones I chose to use. And also, I had a problem between deciding how to make it so that it doesn't look like a briefcase-- and it kinda shows by the construction of the sides.


Oh, and about the poster, I actually changed the name of the product to Rock The Casbag (Cassette Bag), just for fun since XOX Handbag sounds dull haha.

My target market for this is girls who are artsy --dare to be different and into fashion -- That's why for the colors, I chose mainly gold transparent and magenta for the sides.