At Baggy Lab every bag starts out the same: white, rigid, 3D printed. Nobody picks the shape, nobody starts ahead. That is the stated idea — everyone begins from the same object and ends up somewhere completely different.
Baggy Lab is the workshop Francesco has published on Handsome. Francesco is the Maker behind Graphic Corn & Friends, a project based in Rimini: the workshop takes place in town, costs 55 euros and is already bookable, with one date scheduled.
Who Francesco of Graphic Corn & Friends is
Francesco introduces himself as a graphic designer and a craftsman. He spent years inside graphic design — files, screens, things that stay flat — and at some point he wanted to see his ideas step out of there.
After years of training and working in the world of graphic design, I started bringing my ideas off the screen, moving towards 3D printing and handmade production.
— From the Graphic Corn & Friends bio on Handsome
What comes out are pop, slightly ironic objects: lamps above all, and home pieces that are hard to overlook in a room.
There is one move he keeps making: the light ends up where you would expect something else. None of those objects pretends to be a serious lamp — they just hold the light, and that is exactly where they work.
On the lamps the light passes through the printed material and the lines left by the machine stay visible. They are not a flaw left behind: they are the texture, and they do not get sanded away.
Alongside the lamps there are pieces with little to do with furnishing, like a framed sacred heart: holy-card imagery, mural colours.
Every piece starts from an idea, is designed digitally and then takes shape in my workshop, where design and technology become contemporary craft.
— From the Graphic Corn & Friends bio on Handsome
It is not a collection trying to be elegant, and he says so himself: "I like making things that are not only beautiful or functional, but that manage to raise a smile, tell a story and make spaces a little less ordinary."
Baggy Lab: same object, different results
The workshop starts from a white bag 3D printed in PLA, the same for everyone. From there it becomes a surface: you cover it with paint, varnish and glitter, brush by brush, and finish it with charms and accessories.
You can keep it minimal, two marks and nothing else, or load it with splashes and texture until it is fully covered. How much goes on, and where you stop, is up to you.
The workshop for people who say: I'm not the creative type
There is a sentence you hear almost every time before signing up for something like this: I can't draw, I'm useless with my hands, mine will turn out badly.
Baggy Lab takes that problem off the table. You are not the one making the shape: the bag already exists, it is rigid, it is finished. There is no figure to copy and no model to match. What is left are choices: this colour or that one, a lot or a little, charms or no charms. The fact that no experience is required is written in the workshop description — it is not a reassurance we added.
It is his first workshop
This should be said plainly, because anyone booking deserves to know: Baggy Lab is the first workshop Francesco has run. Asked whether he had held any before, he answered no. He has been working with 3D printing and handmade production for a short time, between one and three years; he joined Handsome on 27 August 2026 and has an active Maker Pro plan.
This is not a well-oiled course from someone who has repeated it for ten years. It is the first run of someone who knows how to make those objects and has decided to let other people try it too.
Why do it in Rimini
The workshop takes place in Rimini, which is also where Graphic Corn & Friends is based.
And you go home with something that exists. Not a photo, not a memory: a bag nobody else has, not even the other people at the workshop.
Domande frequenti
- Do I need to know how to draw or paint to do Baggy Lab?
- No. The workshop description states that no experience is required. The bag is already made: there is no shape to build and no drawing to reproduce. You choose how to colour it, how much to load it and whether to add charms and accessories.
- If the bag is the same for everyone, don't they all turn out alike?
- It is the opposite, and it is the idea Francesco states himself: everyone starts from the same object and reaches completely different results. Some leave it almost white, others cover it in splashes, texture and glitter.
- Can I keep it simple instead of covering it in everything?
- Yes. The description says it can be done minimal or loaded with splashes and texture: how much goes on is your call. Two marks and nothing else is as legitimate a version as a bag covered in glitter and charms.
- Can a 3D printed object be called craft?
- The printer gives you the shape; the colour laid down by hand, the splashes and the accessories come afterwards. Francesco puts it his own way: "design and technology become contemporary craft."
