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Custom Bag Design

The team behind our custom bag design service can help you visualise your ideas as a sketch or provide a complete technical layout for your bespoke promotional bag. You might come to us with a finished brief and know exactly what you want or you might just know you want a branded bag that looks great. We’ve got plenty of experience in developing bags from scratch and enjoy adding new ideas, so tell us what your bag design needs to include and we’ll make it happen.

The bag brief : what do you want your bespoke bag to look like?

Our design team will ask you questions about functionality, branding requirements and brand identity guidelines to stay within. Once we know what you’re thinking about, we will provide you with your bag design visuals which will include options to choose from that will define your bag and set it apart from others. What often helps is the creation of a mood board for you design aspirations. This can be a compilation of images from the web of bag details and features you like. This can include materials, straps and buckles and other detailing you require. This can often help us with the look and feel you are trying to achieve with your custom bag design.

As they say imitation is the highest form of flattery, as is often the case with product design, taking the best bits of your favourite bag designs can really help. It can all be rather bewildering if this is your first bag manufacturing venture. Get in contact and we would be delighted to talk you through the options and give you guidance and advice.

Personalisation options for bags

We can supply fabric swatches, Pantone match and examples of any metal work, print or embroidery you are employing for your project. Once you’ve approved all of these, your bag moves into pre-production phase and you’re on your way to create your beautiful bag.

We are able to fully Pantone match many elements of your custom bag, from the bag material to fittings such as handles, badges and linings. Download our free Pantone chart.

bag design options

Bag Design & Technical Pack

You’ve got an idea but haven’t got a design specification together yet.

This provides you with all you need to get started manufacturing and marketing your new Bag project.

  1. Initial video call with our bag designer to discuss your brief. Complete this bag fact-finder before the call which will help you frame what you need help with.
  2. Design presentation created and sent to you with initial sketches based on the brief.
  3. We have another video call to discuss changes.
  4. Final design CADs are sent for approval.
  5. Your bag technical pack is created and you can send up to 3 sets of consolidated amendments to finalise it.
  6. The Design process usually takes around 2 weeks from start to finish.

£700 +VAT (£780 total)

Original Technical Pack Development

If you’ve got an idea but it needs to be turned into a workable designed specification.

This is a lighter form of the above, and more suited to clients who have already selected materials, dimensions and fittings. Our designer will document and illustrate design ready for manufacture.

  1. Initial video call with our bag designer to discuss your brief. Complete this bag fact-finder before the call which will help you frame what you need help with.
  2. Specification is created with dimensions and annotation for manufacturing.
  3. Your bag technical pack is created and you can send up to 3 sets of consolidated amendments to finalise it.

£400 +VAT (£480 total)

What you can expect to get from your bag technical pack

Following consultation with our bag designer, they will work up your technical pack which will include dimensions, finishing detail such as pockets, labels in specific seams, fabric weight and style as well as firming up your Pantone references for print or dying of the fabric.

Take a look at extracts of technical packs we’ve created for other clients.

Custom Bag Design Template

To help you get started designing your bag, we have developed a Custom bag template and sketch pad to suggest the various options you can consider.

Click on the image below and either right click or save to your desktop to print. The design template prints to A4 size.