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44 Fort Campbell Families-Fall NEW GEAR CONTINUED... Another of the student designs chosen is an ingen- ious locker organizer that zigzags vertically to create nifty cubicles. The Floating Shelf comes in color com- binations worthy of boys and girls neon green and gray purple and pink and black and dark blue. Alison Corcoran senior vice president of marketing for Staples said the company worked closely with about 48 students in all from Middle School 88 in Brooklyn and the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. About 14 products are included in the collection. They made presentations. The teams did self-crit- icisms and evolved their ideas as part of the curricu- lum she said. School supplies have been around forever. We thought lets take a fresh look with the people who are actually using these things on a day- to-day basis and ask How can we make them better and more relevant Yet another of the student designs is the Back2Back School Bag a rectangular-shaped back- pack that provides wider storage space and has two oversize slots for laptops and folders. It also includes a separate attached compartment at the bottom to segregate lunch or snack items or smelly gym shoes from the main compartment. Kids loved it. Its a highly functional shape Cor- coran said of the unusual design. For high school and college students with an eye for color and sleek contemporary design a stop at Poppin.com might go a long way in desk supplies dorm storage and other gear. Among the New York City companys back-to- school products is an 18-month spiral-bound planner good from July 2015 to December 2016. It includes weekly and monthly views with color-coded pages by month along with a handy translucent front pocket. Weve been very pleasantly surprised in past years with how well weve done with planners said Jeff Miller Poppins vice president of product design. You hear so much about how everybodys moved to electronic whatever but were very much still in a paper age on planners for students. Dorm rooms remain well dorm rooms so space is at a premium. Poppin sells a storage unit called the Box Seat for the college contingent tired of the milk- crate look. Its covered with fabric in light and dark gray navy orange red and pool blue and is sturdy enough to withstand 275 pounds. Givebacks have grown among companies doing business in back-to-school. Many offer buy-one-give- one programs to kids and classrooms in need or theyll fill donated backpacks with school supplies to donate. At Yoobi a spate of new supplies in that vein was curated by Usher. The Yoobi X Usher collection was designed by artist Jonni Cheatwood and features five prints for more than 20 products ranging from blue paint drips to pink-and-green splatters in binders notebooks pencils pencil cases folders and journals. For every item purchased Yoobi donates an item to a worthy classroom. The collection is available at Yoobi.com and in Target stores nationwide. Its not the first education-focused collaboration for Usher who has two school-age sons. They too had a hand in the project the singer said by email. I looked at what colors they were drawn to and in a very sly way Id show something to them and ask What do you think about this Do you like this color That helped me curate the collection he said.