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Best Active Backpack Results – The Fifth Annual Carry Awards
…in a way that makes sense. It’s just so darn smart. Congratulations, Peak Design. You’ve built a game changer. ________________________________________________________ Highly Commended These are the pieces that just missed out, and in most cases, by the smallest of margins. To them, we award a High Commendation. The below were of outstanding quality, displaying fine craftsmanship and design flair. With honor, we bow our heads in the utmost respec…
Top 5 | Best Camera Bags
…optional add-on modules to suit changing loads Shimoda Explore V2 Shimoda Designs showed up in the adventure camera bag market with their Explore series several years back. Since then, they have solidified themselves as top camera bag designers. The Explore series offers some of the best camera bags on the market and is back with a V2. Well thought out, functional, and comfortable, the Explore series maintains the harness system that sets Shimoda…
Best Everyday Bag Champion | Carry Awards IX
…ls, these packs really are do-it-all workhorses and perfection in backpack design. Congratulations, EVERGOODS! Highly Commended These are the pieces that just missed out, and in most cases, by the smallest of margins. To them, we award a High Commendation. The below were of outstanding quality, displaying fine craftsmanship and design flair. With honor, we bow our heads in the utmost respect and kudos. If this were a dais, they’d be biting their t…
Best Check-In Finalists – The Fifth Annual Carry Awards
…travel use. _________________________________________________________ Topo Designs Mountain Duffel The Topo Designs Mountain Duffel is made in the USA with a rugged Cordura construction built to embrace adventures. The padded base and sides provide protection for the contents as well as increased user comfort. The bag can adapt to changing needs with three carry options including top handles, stowable backpack straps, and a removable shoulder stra…
Best Work Backpack Finalists (Pool A) – The Fifth Annual Carry Awards
…_______ Y-3 Qasa Stemming from a collaboration between Adidas and Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, the Y-3 Qasa is a stylish blend of minimalist aesthetics and functional design that suits a range of workplaces. A host of pockets for tech, work tools and small EDC keep your gear tidy, while the wide top opening helps to make access simple and quick. _________________________________________________________ Vote now! And if you haven’t voted in Po…
Best EDC Champion | Carry Awards IX
…ffortless to add to your daily setup. A piece you want to use every day. A design that’s built to last, easy and lightweight to carry, and ideally brings a touch of flair too. The Rockwall Thumbstud does all of this in a carefully considered and meticulously executed design that merits its champion status. Congratulations, Tactile Knife Co.! Highly Commended These are the pieces that just missed out, and in most cases, by the smallest of margins….
Hall of Fame Results – The Fifth Annual Carry Awards
…am. Though a solid concept, it still took months of testing and honing the design until the WaterTight™ zipper was unveiled in 1999. But the effort was worth it, with the design revolutionizing what a weatherproof zipper could be. The zipper found an elegant balance between technical prowess and sleek simplicity, delivering true innovation that would inspire a new approach to weatherproofing carry gear. Not only is the WaterTight™ zipper an indust…
Best Active Messenger – The Sixth Annual Carry Awards
…our pouches as your day pivots from one scenario to the next. Sleek active design done right, the Courier 15 is an exceptional piece, refined to the point of perfection. Bravo, Arc’teryx! ________________________________________________________ Highly Commended These are the pieces that just missed out, and in most cases, by the smallest of margins. To them, we award a High Commendation. The below were of outstanding quality, displaying fine craft…
Best Work Backpack Finalists :: Third Annual Carry Awards
…nt. – Tailfeather Wanderer Go on, try and take your eyes off it. This is a design so entirely in balance between material and form that your leather has to be perfect, or the whole design would sag and fail. But they are perfect. And somehow, they get better with age. The Wanderer is unmistakably Tailfeather, which means heirloom product that isn’t a slave to the past. This is leather sculpture that has utility and well resolved features. – Terani…
Best Accessory Results – The Sixth Annual Carry Awards
…the action. And that’s pretty darn cool. Exceptional work, Heroclip! Peak Design Capture V3 Peak Design caused an industry-wide rethink on what camera carry can be and achieve. And the Capture Camera Clip is the piece that started it all. But Peak Design aren’t the kind of brand to rest with a good thing when they can make it even better. So they rolled up their sleeves and got down to making the Capture V3. The camera clip offers a host of pract…
Best Camera Bag Champion | Carry Awards IX
…. The below were of outstanding quality, displaying fine craftsmanship and design flair. With honor, we bow our heads in the utmost respect and kudos. If this were a dais, they’d be biting their teeth into silver medals, while their flags were hoisted into the horizon – a feat not to be overlooked. And we’re sure they’ll be back, to take it one notch higher, next year. WOTANCRAFT Pilot Travel Camera Backpack If you love vintage military aesthetics…
Outdoor Retailer Carry Awards :: Summer Market 2017
…nnovation award year after year, it’s Mystery Ranch. The team of dedicated design gurus out of Bozeman, MT were eager to show off not one but two new suspensions this year. First, the Hover Pack addresses the problem of back ventilation in a unique way. The unique curved frame means the pack literally hovers off your back, with the only contact/support points being the harness, yoke, and hip belt. Next up is something that’s not entirely new for M…
Hall of Fame – The Carry Awards
…orn almost as many nicknames (including “the Communist Hunchback”). It was designed to balance the load for children, who were being tilted by the prevailing satchels of the time. Over 3 million Kankens later, we think it can be considered to have succeeded, and is very worthy of your vote. — IKEA big blue bag Yeah, this might seem weird, but think about it. These are sold around the globe for about a buck, they haul shopping, clothes, work gear o…
Best Work Backpack Finalists – Second Annual Carry Awards
There’s always a lot of love for the Work Backpack. If this was the Oscars, it’d probably be the award for Best Lead Actor. So when we finally open up the lines and the votes flood in, we’re forced to hire a horde of trained monkeys to help us collate the data, but don’t worry, I’m one of them. And thankfully, we’ve clawed through the mountains of votes, including from our contributors, and risen to the surface clutching a handful of really speci…
Best Work Backpack – The Sixth Annual Carry Awards
…itional gear a snap. Flexible in form, refined in details, and intuitively designed for everyday functionality, the Duo Totepack nails it. Crafted for folks who love gear that works hard day in and day out, letting you do more while carrying less. Take a bow, Bellroy. You’ve earned it. Arc’teryx Veilance Nomin 2.0 Arc’teryx have built a reputation for technical prowess and quality. And their Veilance line takes this to the next level. The updated…
Best New Gear: December 2017
…ons for keeping your EDC or travel gear tidy and within easy reach. Triple Aught Design Axiom 18 Pack Dig the understated versatility of TAD’s Axiom X25 but wish you could have it in something a little more compact? Well, consider your wish granted with the Triple Aught Design Axiom 18 Pack. The bag retains the low-key aesthetics of its big brother, but in an 18L design that’s well suited to day trips, commuting, or even overnight stays. Made in t…
Buyer’s Guide: Best Travel Backpacks
…design so it can be opened and laid flat for convenient packing. . Triple Aught Design FAST Pack Litespeed (version 2.0) . The original (and extremely popular) TAD FAST Pack Litespeed was great but we’re really digging the updated version (our Drive By of the updated FAST Pack Litespeed provides insight into key differences between the two versions). Internal and external anchor points on the pack enable the user to configure it to different trav…
Best Travel Clothing – The Sixth Annual Carry Awards
Best Travel Clothing is a new Carry Awards category, but it makes sense to include it. After all, the more versatile a piece of travel clothing is, the less you need to pack. And keeping carry weight down is one of the key ways to get the most out of ‘one bag’ traveling. Hauling less means greater freedom to go further and experience more. Our category finalists below all offer travel-friendly features such as water and stain resistance, moisture…
Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2019: Carry Awards
…y they step foot in. Teased during livestreams of their travel packs, Peak Design has gone ahead and designed their own tripods. As of this post, the campaign is sitting at $6.9M and with 24 days to go, it’s sure to go through the roof. The story is how compact they were able to get the total package, when collapsed. It fits in the profile of a water bottle! They were able to accomplish this by tossing aside the convention of tubular legs, and ins…
The Sixth Annual Carry Awards: Have Your Say!
…The Sixth Annual Carry Awards have arrived! We’re set to honor the world’s best carry, raising it on a podium of recognition for pushing the boundaries in innovation, taking functionality to the next level, and offering up styling that makes us take a second look (and a third…). And we’re looking to you, our knowledgeable readers, to help us single out the best of the best over 2017/2018….
NOMATIC and Peter McKinnon Team Up for V2 of their Photography Collection
…on gear loops. It is approximately 30% smaller than the original, as it is designed for everyday carry as opposed to the travel intentions from the first iteration. It’s a sleek bag, although it is decidedly “techy”. Now, in theory, I don’t have issues with that from a design point of view. And I know that I can trust my gear’s physical safety in this piece. However, when my bag is holding my livelihood, and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars’…
The Third Annual Carry Awards :: Voting Closes Soon!
…ourself “Hey, this is totally awesome, but I’ll vote later,” then proceeded to Google dog GIFs instead, and forgot all about the awesomeness of these awards, then this is for you! The Third Annual Carry Awards are on. They’re super important, maybe even more important than hysterical dog GIFS. So close all GIFs now! And click here to vote. You’ve got 2 days left!…
Hall of Fame | Carry Awards VIII
Our Eighth Annual Carry Awards welcomes the world’s most iconic school bag into the Hall of Fame… JanSport SuperBreak The mythology of the Superbreak begins with a bookstore in the University of Washington, and a small mountaineering brand called JanSport selling their ‘Ski and Hike’ backpack at the sports store across the way. On a wet rainy day, the owner of the bookstore called a young Skip Yowell, JanSport’s founder, as students spilled out o…
Hall of Fame – The Sixth Annual Carry Awards
…Our Hall of Fame finalists are the North Stars of the carry world. Pieces that remain a beacon for countless other brands. From striking silhouettes to innovative construction, they’ve paved the way for significant and lasting development in the carry world. But which one shines the brightest of them all, meriting a coveted place in the Carry Hall of Fame?…
Third Annual Carry Awards :: Best Check-In Results
…. The below were of outstanding quality, displaying fine craftsmanship and design flair. With honour, we bow our heads in the upmost respect and kudos. If this were a dias, they’d be biting their teeth into silver medals, while their flags were hoisted into the horizon – a feat not to be overlooked. And I’m sure they’ll be back, to take it one notch higher, next year. Arc’teryx Carrier Duffle With its pared-back profile that significantly reduces…
Best Work Backpack Champion | Carry Awards IX
…But their carry line shows their dedication to excelling in every area of design they turn their attention to. The Commuter Pack is a great example of durable, functional, and sleek design done at a world-class level; not to mention with a nod to sustainability too. The pack is made with Heimplanet’s tough and eco-friendly DYECOSHELL material and offers a range of thoughtful features to help you conquer the workday. The magnetic rolltop closure a…
Third Annual Carry Awards :: Best Work Messenger Results
…. The below were of outstanding quality, displaying fine craftsmanship and design flair. With honour, we bow our heads in the upmost respect and kudos. If this were a dias, they’d be biting their teeth into silver medals, while their flags were hoisted into the horizon – a feat not to be overlooked. And I’m sure they’ll be back, to take it one notch higher, next year. Mystery Ranch 3 Way Briefcase Mystery Ranch are primarily known for their outdoo…
Peak Design Field Pouch V2 | First Look and Giveaway
…award in 2016. And while we love it, it’s great to see them evolving their designs for the better. The Peak Design Field Pouch V2 takes great design cues from their impressive bags, and improves the internal organization, making the pouch more versatile and useful in my short time with it. The included strap makes this a backup sling. And while not how I chose to carry the pouch, it is a worthwhile addition. Once you add in the minimal impact this…
The Carry Awards :: ITS Tactical Presents…
…ers and cables. There’s even a purpose built garment storage section, a discreet small-of-the-back pocket and plenty of features that are sure to satisfy any organizational enthusiast. If you’re looking to blend in, the Nightshade colorway offers a good grey man option as well. . Prometheus Design Werx S.H.A.D.O. Pack 28L The focus on functionality and attention to detail is visible throughout the design of the S.H.A.D.O. Pack. The end result is a…
Best EDC Results – The Fifth Annual Carry Awards
…gn, taking it to the next level with reduced bulk and a more user-friendly design. Congratulations, Orbitkey, your refined design delivers jingle-free calm to key chaos and is a worthy addition to any EDC setup. ________________________________________________________ Highly Commended These are the pieces that just missed out, and in most cases, by the smallest of margins. To them, we award a High Commendation. The below were of outstanding qualit…
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