A laptop case with a special adjustable strap-like handle and clever straps for fastening another smaller iPad or iPad mini to the case. You can carry the case on your shoulder or on your back, like a light rucksack. For the material I chose recycled leather. There are several colours and colour combinations to chose from. My aim was to design a plain, easy to carry and interesting looking laptop case. You can carry an umbrella or a newspaper under the case with you, too. It is an easily modifiable case for every day use.

Ari Korolainen is a Finnish architect and designer who was one of the first designers who used recycled materials in his designs. 1985 he started to make cases and stationery products of recycled cardboard. Today he also uses recycled leather commonly in his designs. Good design and environmentally friendly materials can be seen in his Private Case stationery collection. Now, 30 years later, Private Case is a large collection of stationery products and Korolainen is known as Mr Private Case. Furniture design is his another ambition.

Private Case has made high design stationary products since 1985 from environmeantly friendly produdts. In the begining of 1980 people carried their papers in heavy attachea case. Ari Korolainen made first cases to his own use to carry his architec drawnings. This cases was made of recycled cardboard which has a nice warm feeling. Weight was only 1:10 part of the old attachea cases. Cases design by Korolainen were plain, functional, something new. Private Case was born...