Every one does it. Dreams, creates a list a thing they’d love if money was not an issue. A wishlist. This is Ando’s.. Continue reading
Author: ando 
When your partner isn’t a carry freak
So as you may have guessed, most of the Carryology contributors are either off on some crazy surfari, or boozed up under a tree somewhere. Our posts have been a little thin on the ground as a result. But … Continue reading
Category: Carry Culture, Reflections
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Head to Head | Backpack vs Messenger
We team with Timbuk2 to battle backpack against messenger One of our most popular old posts at Carryology is Backpack vs Messenger; a look at which bag format suits which needs. After a bit of jamming with the folks at Timbuk2, … Continue reading
Category: Backpacks, Bags, Head to head, Messengers, Regular Sections
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Cult Bag :: Gravis Metro
It’s a better backpack than 98% of the bags out there, so we figured it was time to give it a good ‘ol Road Test and share some of the key points… Continue reading
Category: Backpacks, Bags, Regular Sections, Road Tests
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Insights | Two Wallet Carry
Strategies for splitting your pocket carry As a general rule with wallets, less is more. A small and well organised pocket piece will beat a bulging Costanza every time. But as we’ve pushed that thinking further, we’ve realised that sometimes … Continue reading
Category: Carry Culture, Insights, Wallets
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Carry Retailers | Roztayger
When a new carry retailer comes online with a sweeet selection of step-up brands, we get a little bit excited… Continue reading
Category: Carry Culture, Retailers
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Road Test | Rip Curl Search Backpack
More than any other surf company, Rip Curl stand for ‘the search’. So it makes sense that Rip Curl create carry gear to get you out there and back again. Continue reading
Category: Backpacks, Bags, Regular Sections, Road Tests
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Oregon Manifest | Utility Bikes
Bikes rock. They are just a bit hard to carry things on. Continue reading
Category: Carry Culture, Reflections, Uncategorizable, Utility
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Hardgraft | Campfires and Driftwood
Just a short post to say Hardgraft have added some new styles. This Austrian duo create some of the most innovative and well crafted carry available, and so it’s always neat to see where their new styles are heading. We’ve … Continue reading
Category: Bags, weekender
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Hacks | Turning plastic bags into radness
As part of the epic Twitter carry community, we are pretty often sent links to radness. One such recent link was a way to melt plastic bags together to make a Tyvek like material, that can then be stitched into … Continue reading
Category: Hacks, Messengers
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Carry Geeking | Cordura Fabric
Carry Geeking | Cordura Fabric Years ago I asked a major bag maker what his single best tip was for making a great backpack. His answer? Good fabric. He said good fabric meant everything goes together better, with fewer tricks … Continue reading
Category: Bags, Insights
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Carry Hacks | Juice Wallet
We love a good hack at Carryology, so this juice wallet gets us feeling all warm and fuzzy. One of our contributors Brian moonlights in Oak Bay Bicycles, and frothed when Victoria reached for this number to pay for her … Continue reading
Category: Card Cases, Hacks, Wallets
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And the winner is…
Our Chrome Anton has found a new home Hahaaaa… that was a chuckle. If you have a spare few minutes, search twitter with the #chromebags hashtag. You’ll see that once again the awesome carry community both informed us, and entertained … Continue reading
Category: Bags, Messengers
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Road Test | Ethnotek Backpack
A neat backpack with chameleon abilities For most of us, we’d get a little bored wearing the same clothes everyday. Yet when it comes to carry, we’ll often sport the same bag or wallet for years. Ethnotek launched recently with … Continue reading
Category: Backpacks, Road Tests
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Win a Chrome Anton
A simple competition to score a great bag Here at Carryology, you’ve probably realised that we’re fans of Chrome bags. And now thanks to Chrome, we’re pretty stoked to be able to offer an Anton messenger bag up to one … Continue reading
Category: Bags, Messengers
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Road Test | Tailfeather Sparrow wallet
We’ve been digging Australian craft brand Tailfeather for a little while now, and thought it was about time to dive in with some Road Tests. So first up is their Sparrow wallet, which we used for several weeks before photographing, to … Continue reading
Category: Road Tests, Wallets
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Update | Mtn Approach Ski System
Watching a new system evolve We posted a few weeks ago about a new backcountry touring system that is almost ready for market. Since then, Tom from Modaliti design has got in touch to share some of the updates to … Continue reading
Category: Backpacks
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Drive By | KILLSPENCER Weekender 2.0
Getting to know an awesome weekender We love KILLSPENCER. This small LA based brand continue to evolve their charismatic carry pieces, further improving already good bags and cases. We dropped by their offices to get a better feel for the … Continue reading
Category: Bags, Drive By, weekender
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Liking | Zip Strap Backpack
A fun idea for an urban pack One of our readers got in touch to share a concept backpack she has designed. Her name is Emily Vislocky, and her concept replaces the main section zip pull with the main strap, … Continue reading
Category: Backpacks, Bags, Liking
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Carry Candy | Tailfeather
Just north of Melbourne, in a tangle of Australian bush and wildlife, Scottie Neoh and Natalia Perez design and craft leather, canvas and wool into some pretty primo carry goods under the label Tailfeather. Last night they showcased some of … Continue reading
Category: Carry Candy, Industry
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Trade show season is upon us…
It’s about this time of year, each year, when the trade show season clicks into gear. It does it again in Jan/Feb, but it’s these Nth Hemi summer based shows when the industry gets to share a beer or ten … Continue reading
Category: Carry Culture, Industry
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Load Carrier for Labour
Design for less developed nations is incredibly difficult to do well. You can’t just transplant highly developed materials and constructions, as tech almost always requires a support and maintenance structure to keep it working. So how do you help billions … Continue reading
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Hacks | Beer Carton Organizer
Customising a desk organizer Do you remember our recent post on Chato Aganza’s Moleskin wallet hack? As art director for Surfing Mag, it’s kinda Chato’s job to flip crew out, so we thought it would be fun to show his … Continue reading
Category: Hacks, Uncategorizable
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Inception Packing
Modular packing ideas to streamline carrying As a bag designer, I’m fortunate enough to have access to more bags than I can use. This does however mean regularly swapping between them, depending on daily tasks or professionalism level required. To … Continue reading
Category: Bags, Insights
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Road Test | Timbuk2 Snoop Camera Messenger
Photographers are some of the most demanding carry users out there. Not only are they hauling thousands of dollars of gear, they are also reaching for random bits in a hurry, and in a whole mix of environments. Timbuk2 recently … Continue reading
Category: Bags, Messengers, Road Tests
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Winners | Test Your Carry Knowledge
OK, that was rad… We recently asked you to identify 6 carry pieces that are more obscure than most. Not only did we get 4 correct answers in quick time, but almost all of them also provided links to where … Continue reading
Category: Carry Culture, Insights
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New Contributor | James Jeffrey
We get pretty excited when a new contributor comes onboard with Carryology. We figure that the more diverse and interesting our contributors, the more of those juicy little carry insights we should be able to deliver to your screen. James … Continue reading
Category: Carry Culture
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Mtn Approach Ski System
A new approach for back-country snowboarders Back-country snowboarders have it pretty hard. For anything more than a quick slip under the ropes, you need to hike with slow and clumsy snowshoes, or fork out for an expensive split-board (which then … Continue reading
Category: Backpacks, Bags
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Nike Sportswear does carry
Nike are kinda radical. Starting life as a small importer of Asics running shoes, they now pull in almost $20 Billion a year across pretty much every sports category you can think of. So how does a company that sells … Continue reading
Category: Bags, Carry Culture, Industry
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Drive By | Timbuk2 Copilot Roller
Drive By | Timbuk2 Copilot Roller We give a quick once over to this fairly large cabin wheelie… In the world of maximizing your carry-on, personality is hard to come by. Black and square dominates, which can leave you feeling … Continue reading
Category: Carry On, Drive By, Luggage
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