Kayla Marie
Product designer & Writer
Industrial design training, soft goods specialist
Kayla Marie designed most of clearbagsmarket products, and she writes also our guides about which bag you can pick for which day. She picked her spot on the team from day one.
For a long time she worked behind the scenes of each product: sketching, picking materials, testing products durability, sending revisions to the manufacturer... until her name appeared on the site.
Where it started
It started with a festival. Kayla’s own bag wasn’t allowed in, so a friend handed her a spare clear bag at the gate. Midway through the second set, the strap pulled clean out of the panel, and everything she had landed on wet grass in the dark. When she looked around, she saw every clear bag in the crowd failing in some version of the same way: straps sewn flat to flimsy panels, no base, foggy plastic and raw edges. “Nobody had designed them. They existed, and that was all.” That night, the complaint became a job.
Background
Kayla trained in industrial design, which taught her to think in objects: the constraints come first, then the drawing. From there she moved into soft goods, working on straps, closures, gussets, stitch lines and where a seam should sit so it doesn’t rub. Design school didn’t teach her PVC, though. She learned that from samples that failed.
How she designs a bag
Every bag starts from the size limit, not the sketch. Next come rough sketches by hand, then the materials: PVC thickness and clarity, zipper quality, strap webbing, trim and hardware. After that come rounds of specs and revisions with the manufacturer, and finally the samples. She checks seams, stress points and smell, and whether the bag actually stands up on its own. “Sketching takes an afternoon. Getting a strap to hold takes four rounds.”
The detail she’s proudest of
The base. Most clear bags collapse the moment you set them down, and everything inside slides into one heap. Kayla added a flat, structured base, so a 12" × 6" × 12" bag keeps the same size and clarity but stands up by itself. Customers mention this detail more than any other. A close second is reinforced handle joins, which fix the exact failure that started all of this.
What Kayla writes, and what she doesn’t
Kayla writes our bag-matching guides, which give a designer’s judgment on which bag suits a game, a concert, a festival or a trip. She doesn’t write our venue policy pages. Those are researched separately and checked against official venue sources. Always confirm a venue’s current bag policy before you go.
Outside work
You’ll find her at the beach with a notebook she pretends is for sketching.
Get in touch
Partnerships and collaboration inquiries: kayla@clearbagsmarket.com
Areas of expertise
- Clear bags design
- Industrial and soft goods design
- Clear PVC material selection
- Strap, seam and handle reinforcement
- Sample testing and bag construction
- Choosing clear bags for games, concerts and festivals
- Clear makeup and toiletry bags
How we research and test
Every policy guide and product on Clear Bags Market follows the same process. Read our editorial standards.
