Work in Progress

An inside look at the materials, the process, and the travel destinations that shape and inspire our work.
The Hood Test
The Hood Test
The hood is the first component of a travel jacket to be tested in actual weather. It concentrates the whole design problem into its smallest form, from seam sealing at... Read more...
Minimum State
Minimum State
Every product in a travel kit spends most of its time not being used. We designed the Canard range from that state outward, asking what each object becomes when it... Read more...
The Working Surface
The Working Surface
A travel notebook built around one insight: the rigid cover is not packaging but infrastructure, the portable writing surface that removes the need to find one. Read more...
The Double Brief
The Double Brief
The engineering decisions behind a compact umbrella built for both rain and UV exposure: fibreglass ribs, carbon joints, and what a DWR rPET canopy with UPF50+ protection actually does. Read more...
Side-release buckle hardware mechanism x-ray on illuminated lightbox, amber-orange outer form with cobalt blue internal spring mechanism
Standard Issue
Most carry goods buckles come from two manufacturers. The question of which one, and why, is where the design brief either started or stopped. Read more...
The Half Layer
The Half Layer
What the number in a jacket's layer count actually means, and why 2.5-layer construction is the right choice for a jacket built around travel. Read more...
X-ray lightbox image of a technical outerwear jacket collar showing bonded seam construction, amber-orange outer shell with cobalt blue thermoplastic adhesive bond layer visible
The Clean Line
How a product is joined shapes what it communicates. We look at bonded and heat-welded seam construction in technical outerwear, and why the absence of thread is a design decision... Read more...
X-ray lightbox image of a roll-top backpack collar buckled closed, showing amber-orange outer shell and cobalt blue internal structure
Three Rolls
A roll-top closure is not a waterproofing feature. It is a position on how a bag will be used — and the decisions inside that choice run from fold geometry... Read more...
Carry hardware components — buckle, zip pull, and D-ring — in x-ray style on an illuminated lightbox, amber-orange forms with cobalt blue internal mechanisms
Below the Spec
Most carry goods spec sheets give you a single number, total empty weight. What they rarely show is how much of it is hardware, and why that distinction matters. Read more...
X-ray lightbox image of Dyneema Composite Fabric showing layered laminate construction with UHMWPE fibers
The Film Between
Dyneema Composite Fabric is fifteen times stronger than steel by weight and fully waterproof. It also delaminates at crease points under sustained use. Here is the honest account of both. Read more...
X-ray lightbox image of waxed canvas fabric swatch showing crease patina and internal thread structure
What Stays
The wax in a well-used canvas bag never fully cures. It keeps migrating, darkening the creases, recording how the bag was carried. That process is a material property, not a... Read more...
X-ray of a tightly woven cotton fabric swatch on illuminated lightbox, amber-orange fiber weave with cobalt blue internal thread structure visible
Without the Membrane
Before membranes, there was a cotton fabric so tightly woven that its own fibers solved the waterproofing problem. A look at etaProof cotton, the makers who still use it, and... Read more...