Design students face the same challenge as many other students and professionals: how to best carry the materials and tools needed on a day-to-day basis. Two students have created designs to meet that need.

Nitesh Baviskar decided to design a bag specifically for industrial designers.

While some of the bags Baviskar looked at during his research were backpacks, his design is a shoulder bag.

The bag is designed to hold the things designers need: a laptop, a sketchbook, drawing implements and a few tools.

As part of a student project to design a messenger bag for a specific consumer, Chris Rickmon-Swan designed a working designer's messenger bag. Rickmon-Swan said he was inspired by "the Japanese bento box—its organization and its aesthetics."

The bag is designed to hold pens and markers, binders and folders, a phone, a laptop, a graphics tablet, a power adapter, and cables. It's bulkier than Baviskar's design, but holds more—a constant trade-off when it comes to bags.

Searching for a cool bag that's available now? Harouth Arthur Mekhjian is a freelance graphic designer and architect who was looking for a bag to carry a laptop (along with a charger and a mouse), one or two notebooks, a 7-inch tablet, a book or two, and a pencil case—very similar to the things a design student needs. Alyssa Pelletier, a designer, pointed him to the Triangle Commuter Bag from abrAsus. While you can't see it from this view, the bag also has a vented back pocket. The compartment sizes can be adjusted with the movable dividers.

Designed so you can easily see everything, and so it won't ever tip over, this seems like a bag that just might be worth the $199 investment.