About Common Totes

Common Totes is a design community producing fresh tote bags every month, with designs submitted by the community, for the community, and where the community decides which designs go to print.

Founded by a group of consumer enthusiasts, the project was motivated by a passion to inject life and a little color onto everyday common accessories and the use of plain tote bags as a blank canvas to express creative ideas.

We started Common Totes with the goal of uniting a community of design enthusiasts, fuelled by their infatuation for graphic design and typography, to showcase their creativity and design the perfect tote.

To fulfill this, we’ll need all the love we can get! And you can spread some of that love by sending us your best art/designs/ideas/typography. We'll present them to the community and your peers will rate them.

We’ll produce the most popular designs each month so that we only offer the totes you want to be seen carrying. They'll only be printed in a limited edition run and can be purchased from the Common Totes online shop. And the best part? If your design gets selected for printing, you'll win fame, glory and US$200!

Together, let's take this journey to kickstart a revolution and create a community for people to define what great tote design means.

Tote and design lovers of the world, UNITE AND TAKE OVER!

About the team

Chen Shucheng has been constantly plagued by nocturnal emissions of graphically charged collages and lush colored lithographs. Although he is often credited for his iconoclastic zeal, his opinions in general are often taken for granted.

Shannon Low has a weakness for bags (of all sorts), sneakers (especially Nike Blazers and Puma Mostros), G-star tops and Diesel jeans. And the occasional Transformer or giant robot toy.

Loon Kok Keong has been infatuated with Lego Technics since childhood, and has amassed a good collection over the past few years.

Nelson Yap