Pre-Sneak Preview: Backpack Design
At long last we have a serious backpack design nearly complete. Many a customer has asked us for either a sailcloth backpack or a carbon fiber backpack. It has taken us a long time to get it to the design table because backpacks have so many different uses,that we got stuck on wanting to design the perfect backpack for everybody (which was impossible), rather then designing the perfect backpack for us (which is how we’ve designed all of our other gear).
Our backpack is small, simple, and sleek. It is just big enough to hold a Macbook in the built in padded laptop sleeve at the back, maybe a lightweight jacket, a book and a bottle of water. There are just two zippers, both on the side, so they are easily accessible by swinging the backpack around your right side, with one strap still on your shoulder. One zipper is full length and gives access to the laptop and the entire interior space, the other zipper is smaller and gives direct access to a simple sleeve pocket designed to hold whatever you want to keep handy, be it an ipod or a cell phone.
That’s all the details I’m going to give you for now. I will post prototype pics tomorrow.
