The new handbags designed by Carmina Campus with the AIDOS dragonfly

Italy
2007 - Empowerment economico

To launch the dragonfly as the new symbol of the AIDOS fundraising campaign, Carmina Campus has created a series of handbag using recycled and reused materials. Carmina Campus makes creative use of recycled production waste, vintage fabrics and warehouse remainders. Expert artisans use these materials to produce beautiful handbags, one-of-a-kind pieces, each one unique.
The dragonfly bags are made out of canvas, corduroy, and nylon or plastified knits from warehouse overstock.The linings are made of colorful vintage fabrics.The special handles are made of rigid, plastic shopping bag handles, covered with strips of leather.But what makes these bags really precious is the outside pocket, made of authentic tinga-tinga painted by Tanzanian artist Kambili.Tinga-tinga are genuine works of art, painted with bicycle paint, and based on Tanzania’s artistic traditions. They are named after the self-taught artist Edward Said Tingatinga. In the 1960s, Tingatinga often using recycled materials because he was very poor. He became famous in the ‘70s as leader of a group of artists and cultural movement. Even after Tingatina’s death, the movement continued, as it evolved, his artistic crede: - themes of African animals- bright colors and sharp definition of the fields (due to the use of bicycle enamel that was not mixed, and that dries slowly, with the construction of overlayed figures)- generally square-shaped and framed in decorations.
The Kambili dragonflies for the Carmina Campus bags are painted with various backgrounds and colors: white, black, blue, orange, yellow and pink.

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To order the bags, contact aidos@aidos.it