On May 4th, 2022, New Jersey implemented it’s ban on plastic one-use bags and paper bags in stores. Months leading up to it, I began sketching and designing my own ideas for reusable grocery bags.

I wanted each bag have a purpose, one for produce, another for meat & seafood, for dairy & frozen, and so on. My thought was twofold: it would make putting groceries away easy once home and it would help prevent food contamination.

Below are final looks and sketches of produce bags I drew and designed.

Each piece of produce was drawn digitally in Procreate then exported into Indesign where I laid everything out. Once set to my liking, I printed mock bags through Snapfish.