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Slim Pack behind the scenes: Components
Following up on the previous post about patterns and dies, the steel versions have arrived from the die makers. Making dies is a long tradition best done by master craft...
What goes in to a new color Soft Shell?
When I first introduced Soft Shell, the natural choice was to make black. It’s the most popular Tyvek model and, putting aside debates as to whether black is a color...
Behind the scenes: making a product demo video
There’s no doubt that video is a compelling medium to demonstrate things, but there’s such a wide spectrum of ways to produce one that it can be daunting to choose...
So Why a Minimal Commuter Backpack?
I didn't start off wanting to make a backpack. I just wanted to buy one which met my needs and I enjoyed owning. The story of how I came to...
Overnight success
It may look simple from the outside. Post a project on Kickstarter, people pledge, and the money comes rolling in. This myth is the attraction of crowdfunding. But as one...
I’m working on something big. Hint: It’s not a wallet.
When I sent out a survey about what I should work on next and this product, I was somewhat surprised by what product came back as the #1 item. Why?...
Fifty shades of green: A qualitative and quantitative balance to design
As a business that now operates almost completely online, but makes physical products, I need to constantly make good decisions about which products to produce. I don’t do a perfect...
Hidden world of shipping and returns
If you’ve ever sent something back to a big company, you’ve probably engaged in some kind of process where you fill out a form with bar codes on it or...
Memory Lane: Urban Air Market in SF
It was a chilly Saturday morning five years ago when I woke up to try and sell my first SlimFold wallet. I registered for a booth at the Capsule Design...
Entrepreneurship Podcast Interview
Check 1-2… check check. Sibilance. I’ve usually been a bit busy keeping up with production runs and creating new products to take time out to tell more about the SlimFold...
Cutting Soft Shell Material Ain’t Easy
With Soft Shell material being deceptively strong, it is also deceptively difficult to cut! During a recent visit to the sewing house I snapped this clip of them using a mini...
RFID Retrofit
Folks have been very pleased with the RFID blocking versions of the wallets… the protection doesn’t add any bulk, making them the world’s thinnest RFID blocking wallet. The only thing...