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Kate Barclay
Sam Whipp
Stanley Wong
Jonathan Biet
Alissa Sanders

Assignment 3: Upcycling

This laptop case is made out of plastic bags. I choose rice bag for the base material because it is strong and durable. I turned the cover inside out for 2 reasons: to get rid of the label and get nice red and white pattern, and the label material smoother than inside so it won’t scratch the laptop. The rice bag itself is already a durable material, I decided not to cut it and use this maximum. I sew the opened part and cut in the middle to put lap top. The top part became a lid. Normal cotton string was too weak to hold bags in position, so I used linen string, which used for sewing rice package bag.

For padding, I stuffed light plastic bags you can get it from Colse and grocery shopping because they are soft and light. For the cover of the padding, I used stronger plastic bag that you can get from clothes shopping. They often come with good designs and photo, so put the whole shopping bag inside, so it would looks like a poster when you open it. I could have done it for the outside cover, but I still wanted to keep the quality of the rice bag, and it was a lot stronger than shopping bag, I padded inside the pocket back part protection. I used Velcro to hold the lid in place.