Accessories Design traditionally involves designing jewelry, embellishments and leather goods intended to complement clothing and contribute to a comprehensive fashion image. An accessory designer is a type of fashion designer.
Fashion Designer / Accessories Designer Degree: Design or Fashion Design Salary: $65,170 (average 2018) Revenue of the US. accessories market in 2019 was 414,299 Million Dollars.
Some of the fastest growing areas in Fashion Design are; Sports Accessories Design & Lifestyle Accessory Design
Hand Drawn Bag Design
Part 1:
Design a bag with 2 or 3 different views, drawn by hand, color,
label and photograph your two designs.
Make sure to add your own logo, texture, or design element. Label and color; include, materials, adjustable items, functions, or trim for the viewer to better understand ideas.
Hand them in as jpegs.
Check out designs below for inspiration.
My student's Hand Drawn Bags
Part 2: Digitally Redraw Bag
Redraw your bag from Part 1, showing the 2 or 3 views.
Hand both view designs in as jpegs or put them into one image. Also hand in both view designs as working files! Points will be lost if you do not hand in both view as jpegs and working adobe files.
You can design
Leather Bags / Backpacks / Sports Bags
Purses or Luggage
Sports Accessories Design Bags
& Lifestyle Accessory Design Bags
Every hobby has is needs, and today people want to do their hobbies in style. You may wish to design a bag for specific hobby such as; golf, disk golf, hockey, biking, backpacking, rock climbing, or photography.
This rock climbing bag opens up to easily display all of your gear.
Draw out your design from at least 2 different views.
Explain: Colors, Materials, Adjustable items, Functions, Trim
Draw designs out in Illustrator.
Ideas matter...
Sail bag made of recycled sailcloth
Company Statement / Sales Pitch
Our recycled sail cloth has previously been used out in the elements and on open water. Some staining and wear may be visible, we like the character it adds to this product. The red stripe shown on this photo is an example of graphics from the existing sail showing up on the finished bag.
Bags and purses can be made of many different types of materials.
"My life didn’t please me, so I created my life." - Coco Chanel
Chanel Quilted Purse
Detailed drawing or paintings are still created before the first mock up.
Computer Illustrator drawings are created of the design.
Designers often create one mock up. - hand made design - See them in museums like the Palais Galliera Musee de La Mode.
Mass produced purses/bags from top brands, such as this Chanel Coral Red Quilted Caviar Double Flap Bag command prices in the thousands of dollars.
Photos from
College for Creative Studies
Fashion Accessories Design
Program
Bag Design and Paper 3-dimentional mock up
Two different finished Bag designs from CCS students.
Inspiration, Bag Design, Shoe Design and Color Palette by CCS student.
Student at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI creating her own shoe design.
CCS assistant demonstrating the computer programed precession pneumatic leather cutting machine at CCS.
Finished footwear by CCS students.
Finished high heels footwear by CCS students.
Book 'Footwear Design' by CCS instructor Aki Choklat.