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QWSTION Washed Black Collection

The nice gents over at QWSTION sent us a neat little email this morning announcing the arrival of the Washed Black Collection. Continue reading

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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

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Question time w/Marcus Johnson

Question time w/Marcus Johnson Working in Carry often means that you will be working with the far east. Some of us are lucky enough to be tied to a local based producer and have the ability for direct communication, without … Continue reading

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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

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9 Amazing Bags Available Now

We worked with High Snobiety to help create a buyers guide for them based around bags – backpacks, messengers, weekenders, etc. Continue reading

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A Week in Carry :: 7th October

These things are real random huh, maybe we should change it to a month in carry…? Anyway, on with the show. Continue reading

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Oregon Manifest | Utility Bikes

Bikes rock. They are just a bit hard to carry things on. Continue reading

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A Week In Carry | TWR

Saw some neat brands, saw some neat bags, drank some neat beer. Fair to say it was neat Continue reading

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TWR – Whillas and Gunn

Another brand we managed to get a peek at during TWR was Whillas & Gunn, they had some really nice, rugged, well constructed bags. Continue reading

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TWR – Incase

TWR – Incase Following on from the Herschel post yesterday, we also got to peek what Incase had happening at their booth. Besides a glut of tech gadgetry to support their products (they had a glorious 30inch Cinema Display), they … Continue reading

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TWR – Herschel

TWR is on right now in Sydney, at the Hordern Pavilion to be exact. It’s a new tradeshow in Aust and it’s really doing some neat things. We spent some time there yesterday snapping off shots from a couple of … Continue reading

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Interbike 2011 Carrology Report

Interbike 2011 Carrology Report For those not aware of Interbike, it’s North America’s largest bicycle trade event and show. Offering 1000 suppliers, representatives from 4000 bicycle retail stores, and draws over 20000 annual attendees – pretty nuts huh. So we … Continue reading

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A Carryology Guide

A Carryology Guide We get to play around with some rad carry stuff, we get so many amazing insights, tips, tricks and ideas on better ways to carry that this site tends to overflow with content. Such a level of … Continue reading

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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 | Posted by ando | Comments (31)
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Bag Watching…

Bag Watching… It’s akin to people watching. You can sit around and just watch and marvel at some of the bags that people walktz around with… Watching people walk around is one thing, but watching what those people are using … Continue reading

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Outdoor Retailer Show Wrap-Up

Carryology contributor Taylor Welden has been busy in Salt Lake City over the weekend, catching up with the latest and greatest from the outdoor industry. We asked him to select a few carry related highlights from the Outdoor Retailer summer … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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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

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Chrome | Carry Retailers

This isn’t a surprise really, we all know Chrome sell bags, but the other day I got to swing past their flagship store in San Francisco. It’s pretty neat, so thought I’d shoot a few (below average shots) of the … Continue reading

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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

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Test your carry knowledge

Test your carry knowledge So you think you know a bit about the world of carry eh…? We thought we’d throw a few lesser known carry products up, and see how crew go identifying them. Between our Twitter, Facebook and … Continue reading

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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

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A Week in Carry | 11th July

A Week in Carry | 11th July A week in carry seems to be a long time lately doesn’t it  ;) All good though, we are back with another hit. With all sorts of things happening in the carry world … Continue reading

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Zippers, neoprene & nylon.

Zippers, neoprene & nylon. 3 questions got asked, 3 answers were provided. A little insightful education into the world of carry. Do you know what neoprene is good for? Do you know why zippers catch? Read on for a little … Continue reading

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The Mobile Wallet

The Mobile Wallet So I’ve been reading about mobile payment options for a little bit now, it’s kind of daunting, kind of exciting. Daunting because it’s more information you’re handing over to someone, it’s a new platform that is no … Continue reading

Category: Reflections, Wallets | Posted by Leather | Comments (0)
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Carry Passion

Carry Passion One of our contributors found the above illustration on a site called Urban Sketchers. While it’s not directly an insightful carry post, it is really nice to see other people who are amped about carry, whether it’s because … Continue reading

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A Week in Carry | 20th June

A Week in Carry | 20th June Sporadic aren’t they these things, I kinda like it tho. What caught our interest in the last seven days? A few things, new wallets, headwear brand dropping bags, grid-it and a couple of … Continue reading

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Burton Likes to Carry…

Burton Likes to Carry… Are you familiar with Burton? Probably, but if not, a quick 101 for you > Burton was founded by Jake Burton and have been standing sideways since ’77. Focusing on the snow and what you need … Continue reading

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