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Design Your Own Laptop Bag

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Design Your Own Laptop Bag
Oakley Custom Laptop Bags

Oakley Custom Laptop Bags - before customization

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For the ultimate personalized accessory, consider designing your own custom laptop bag. Most of the laptop bag manufacturers in this article offer easy-to-use online tools to select, visualize, and order your custom laptop's fabric, colors (even down to the zipper tape in some cases), and other options.

Keep in mind that these built-to-order laptop bags -- handcrafted, in a few cases -- may be truly one-of-a-kind and therefore can take several days to make and deliver. They also may not be returnable, so it's important to double-check your laptop's dimensions and match them to the manufacturer's stated bag dimensions.

After flexing your creative muscles, you'll end up with a unique, high quality laptop bag that is not only functional but also may reflect your personal tastes better than any other laptop bag can. In addition to strengthening your personal brand, a custom bag may also be designed to incorporate your company's logo colors. (Note: you can also make some really funky-looking laptop bags with odd color combinations in some of these tools -- good for spotting your laptop bag from across the room, bad for fitting in in a "black laptop bag" world.)

Check out these laptop backpacks, messenger bags, and sleeves from Timbuk2, Oakley, Rickshaw Bagworks, and Renaissance Art.

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