Olka Sac Sans Couture by Maryam Hosseini

Olka Sac Sans Couture by Maryam Hosseini is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Bronze in Accessoire Competition Category.

BronzeAccessoire· 2024

Olka Sac Sans Couture

by Maryam Hosseini

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Accessoire Category

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The Design

About Olka Sac Sans Couture

Olka est un sac en cuir sans couture fabriqué à la main, inspiré par l'irrévocable migration iranienne. Il se compose de 54 pièces modulaires en cuir véritable de vache qui s'emboîtent entre elles. Ce tressage est réalisé à travers des fentes découpées dans le cuir au laser. Ses dimensions sont de 220 x 220 x 80 mm. L'anse du sac est fabriquée en bois de noyer. Olka signifie patrie en langue persane. De nos jours, les adolescents et les jeunes Iraniens quittent leur patrie pour créer une vie meilleure, et la migration peut créer des fissures dans leur esprit et leur âme, voire dans leur corps, mais chaque fissure offre une opportunité pour la création d'une nouvelle et belle fleur.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Olka Sac Sans Couture est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Olka Sac Sans Couture est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Olka Sac Sans Couture satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Leather is a durable material, but usually the threads used to sew leather crafts, lose their quality sooner than leather, so creating the seamless leather bags can be effective in increasing its quality. Olka is non-stitched, the modular leather pieces are interlocked together, which increases the speed of production, and if needed for repair, the damaged piece can be easily replaced with a new one. It even gives the possibility to the user to order the bag in separate pieces and make her own.
Dimensions & Packaging: The dimension of Olka is 220*220*80 millimeter.
Tags: Modular, non stitched, geometric, homeland, Olka, leather bag, interlocking modular components, lasercut, migration
Production Technology: The main bag consists of 72 cow genuine leather pieces that are first designed in 2D and 3D in AutoCAD, then cut by laser cut, and the pieces are interwoven together. This bag also has an inner bag that is handcrafted and it is also created from cow genuine leather and can be used separately as a minimal crossbody bag.
Design Challenge: The main challenge in creating this product was whether the final strength of the interlocked components would be equal to the stitching and whether the main bag could be delivered to the customer in the separated pieces, so that she could create the bag herself by interlocking them together.
Research: In the process of design and creation, research was done in the field of interlocking system, modular system, consumer behavior, DIY products and the migration rate of youth Iranian which finally resulted in the creation of this project.
Inspiration: According to reports of 2022, about 50% of Iranian students and entrepreneurs have desired to emigrate from their country and 62% have not decided to return back. Olka means homeland in Persian language and it was created by the inspiration of Iranian youth who immigrate with the aim of creating a better life. Migration brings mental, emotional and even physical pains, but pain is an opportunity for growth. In this case, every slit provides the basis for creating a new beautiful flower.
Project Duration: The design of this bag stated in September 2023 in Tehran, Iran and created in October 2023 in Tehran.
Operation Flow: This bag consists of modular leather pieces that are interlocked together. The consumer can order this bag in separate components and will make the bag according to its manual and it will have a great emotional connection and sense of belonging with the product.