

So I’d been a messenger for six years and it was just going to be a summer job whilst I was in school but then I kept with that. I was a bike messenger and I started in May 2002. What were you doing before you started making bags and how did you get into that? It’s really satisfying to make something rather than being some tiny gear inside of a digital machine or something. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be purely working in an office, pushing things around spreadsheets. But I like sewing just in general because you’re getting to use your hands and make something, and even, if it does get repetitive at a certain point – like ten years in (deadpan laugh) – you still have the pleasure of finishing up something and feeling like you did something throughout the day.
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I like being able to design stuff, come at challenges and figure out how to create them.

Even that much cardboard has to start getting heavy. “ What is it about making bags that you like? If it can carry a whole bunch of stuff and still work well, then as you scale back it should work just fine – instead of making some small design and trying to blow it up, and then not having it support things ‘s photo from CMWC ’15 in Melbourne: “In this shot maxes out a Vortex more than I have ever seen. The biggest of the messenger bags was figured out first and everything got scaled down from that. A lot of the basis behind things were (done back-to-front) from how a lot of people would do it, and ideas were developed to work in really large-scale designs first. The first one was the Landfill, starting with something very large.

“If you think about it, bags and their usage are in a lot of senses about what kind of lifestyle do you want to live” What was the first bag that you made like? Did it turn into one of the Trash Bags that currently exists? Extremely slowly, extremely frustratingly, using all sorts of things that weren’t how you were supposed to used them, breaking tonnes of needles but luckily I’m stubborn enough to persevere through that, I guess. I didn’t know how to sew – other than a home economics class where I made a shitty gym bag once, so I got a home machine and I looked, to an extent, at the bag I was using at the time and tried to figure out how you would construct something like that, and started working away on it. No one in town was making bags at that point, so I thought I’d give it a shot. I, like an awful lot of messengers, decided that you probably can’t be a messenger forever and ever and ever. At ease.It’s ten years ago (as of) fall 2018.Hold! - occasionally when changing Doppelganger speed.

