Foldable food/accessory bag for "lifestyle bikers"
- Recycled vinyl sign, plastic, velcro, metal snaps.
- 10" x 5" x 2" (folded)
- Co-designed with Jimi Okelana and Edmund Galperin


What started as a school project designing a "lunch bag" for a specific demographic evolved into a research driven "reconfigurable" container, for a group who hate being "contained" on principle. Waterproof, flexible, cheap, and simple.



Cut from a reclaimed vinyl sign, the bag folds from completely flat into a number of "closed" configurations. Designed for committed cyclists like bike messengers and touring riders, the "bag" can hold everything from bananas to wrenches to document tubes. Since any biker worth his salt already owns a messenger-style pack, the bag velcros on to any shoulder strap.




A foldable pocket protects fragile items like a cellphone or granola bar. An easy-access slot holds an ID card. Snaps and velcro hold the whole thing together.



Our esteemed panel of interviewees/consultants, with their bikes: Cross-country bike traveller Tim McCarthy on the left, and Veteran Pittsburgh bike messenger Steve Cummings on the right.