About: Costume and experimental fashion designer and artist. Maker of clothing and accessories for time traveling cyborg superheroes, and lucid dreamers. Interested in fusing couture design and leatherwork with wea…

Most of us use similar technology to power our lives, laptops, tablets, smart phones. The cases we choose for our devices have become almost as important for defining our style as our shoes or haircuts, so why not truly personalize them by creating our own?

Leather is a perfect material for creating device cases, it is sturdy an durable and gives you a wide variety of design options. To create cases for my laptop and tablet, I chose to use a magical leather working technique that I'd been hoping to try for a long time: wet-forming.

Wet forming leather is basically sculpting. You soak leather in water and then mould it into three dimensional shapes that keep their form when the leather dries. The process is wonderfully tactile, and when done right the results are amazing. The best thing about the method I used is that you can really personalize your own projects by choosing the objects you sculpt over. Looking for the right object also makes for a pretty fun treasure hunt.

In this Instructable I will show you how to create two different styles of technology cases: a sleeve type case for a laptop, and a folding book style case for a tablet, each decorated with forms sculpted using different objects.

This project was partially inspired by the amazing work of Wei Li, who used digital fabrication technology to create luggage sculpted around the forms of her own body.