Abstract: A travel case for elongate items such as skis, golf clubs, snowboards, or the like comprises an elongate bag having a pair of hard sided end sections longitudinally spaced from a hard sided center section. Between each end section and the center section is a respective soft sided intermediate section. The hard sided end and center sections provide protection for the case contents at the vulnerable locations of those contents. The soft sided intermediate sections, made of collapsible and supple material, provide the advantage of reducing the weight of the overall case, and the suppleness permits the end sections to be folded in on the center section when the case is open along its length to educe the length and the required storage space for the case when not in use.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a unit of luggage includes photographing one or more graffiti scenes, photographically processing the resulting images to yield a composite design image, transferring the composite design image to a sheet of fabric material in a repeating design, cutting the fabric to form pieces of the luggage unit and joining the cut pieces form the luggage unit.