{"id":152113,"date":"2024-06-10T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=global&p=152113"},"modified":"2024-06-10T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:19:08","slug":"my-friends-success-is-my-motivation","status":"publish","type":"global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/global\/my-friends-success-is-my-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"My friend’s success is my motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In reality, I was just kind of jealous.<\/p>\n

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Last year, my teammate Natsumi and Aro designed the online exclusive Day Pack. They seem to have had a really fun time picking out the materials and what not. I was super envious of going through a process of planning and releasing a product.<\/p>\n

I was watching them thinking “But I wanna design something too\ud83e\udd7a”.<\/p>\n

It was always my dream to design a product for a company\/brand I worked for, since I had watched and had been in the skate industry since I was 18 years old.<\/p>\n

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Like Chris Milic or Louie Lopez designing their own promodel shoes<\/p>\n

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or Oski from Polar designing his own Dunk SBs<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of ways to show your personality in the skate industry, besides just doing tricks and filming video parts, but those are things that pros can do and I am very far from a pro skater.<\/p>\n

Skating is just one of an activity I like to do in my spare time, so I know I wasn’t gonna design anything for skate brands.<\/p>\n

When I head that there was a possible chance that I could design something for this cool bike shop I work at, I was all in.<\/p>\n

“Max-san!” (Max is the head of the bag designers)<\/p>\n

I walked into the sewing room aggressively. Max slowly turns his head, so I said to him<\/p>\n

“Let me do it too!”<\/p>\n

“What?” he replies<\/p>\n

“The Day Pack!” I reply before he can ask further questions.<\/p>\n

“Uh, OK…?”<\/p>\n

And so, it was on.<\/p>\n

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Out came this Tree camo backpack. I really like how this one came out. It’s got orange stitching and two strips of reflectors on t he center. See this post<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n

My dream of designing a signature product came true, it came out great and we’re nearly sold out, so I was super stoked and satisfied, but what if I told you there was more?<\/p>\n

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The Day Pack Colonel Edition pt.2! (shoutout to Isaac from Peace Sports for lending me his egg shape board)<\/p>\n

You think I’m enjoying this too much? Well, I can agree.<\/p>\n

But hear me out.<\/p>\n

These two designs were actually born in the process of making the tree camo ones. Max and I thought we should also make a more subtle design and this is what I came up with.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to keep it simple, so I chose a solid color with no contrast stitching.<\/p>\n

I don’t mind wearing a camo bag with a check pattern shirt and looking like a fabric material sample these days, but it would be great if I can avoid that. Simplicity is key.<\/p>\n

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I went with two strips of reflectors for the tree camo, so I went with a single fat reflector this time.<\/p>\n

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If you know, you know.<\/p>\n

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Looks a bit different when I compare but, it’s all good.<\/p>\n

The features of the bag itself isn’t any different than the regular day packs.<\/p>\n

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The huge reflector is a major element of this bag, but these zipper pulls are a bit different. The regular day packs have suede leather zipper pulls, but this one has nylon zipper pulls, to give the bag more of an outdoor gear vibes,<\/p>\n

But if you like the suede<\/a> better, you can get them from the link. Blue with brown suede would look nice for sure.<\/p>\n

I’m not gonna go into the details of The Day Pack since it’s bag that we made for a very long time, but to give you an idea of what type of stuff you can fit in this bag…<\/p>\n

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12 rolls of TP. No problem.<\/p>\n

80% of the Blue Lug staffs own The Day Pack. It’s not designed for riding at all and it’s just a super simple backpack, but it’s got a huge opening and can fit so many stuff, so I really like it, especially when it’s my favorite color.<\/p>\n

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Shoutout to Samba, the mech staff at the Hatagaya store for buying the bag!<\/p>\n

Two of the bags are now online and will only be available online!<\/p>\n

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\uff08\u2191…Anyone know this scene?<\/a>\uff09<\/p>\n

\u270c\ufe0f<\/p>\n

– Colonel<\/p>\n

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