By Nik Bentel Studio
The Drip Bag
The Drip Bag, a leather handbag designed as an ode to the upcoming winter months and inspired by the continual thawing and freezing that comes and goes year after year. Water has been on this earth for billions of years,we have gone through thousands of winters, its about time there was a handbag inspired by this perpetual loop.
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Behind the Project
The Drip Bag, the first in an ongoing series, was introduced in 2022 and became a massive success, selling out almost instantly. Ranging from fashion influencers to just your every day person looking for a bag. We found this bag dominating our instagram feeds in a variety of styles
Inspired by motifs of dry ice, cool tones, and frigid elegance, baby blue was an obvious first choice for us to bring to life.
The bag is made from leather and chromed steel. The metal components were created by first 3d printing each piece in order to create a mold and then casting the metal on top of each piece.The bag size is approximately 10”x 12”x 12”. The leather construction was by far the mostimportant aspect of the design. The leather needed to be molded properly to create the teardrop shape on the front of the bag. This process took a lot of consideration and iterations toperfect