Timbuk2 Rips Off Freitag
By Rocky Thompson on January 10th, 2007
Taking a page from Freitag’s success making messenger bags from recycled truck tarps, Timbuk2 has come out with the Banner Messenger Bag. This over-the-shoulder bag is made from re-purposed vinyl taken from the San Francisco Visitors and Convention Bureau. Why the Convention Bureau had so much vinyl is anybody’s guess.
come on dude reduced, reuse, recycle this is not ripping off but doing good
Regardless of whether the idea may or may not have been ‘ripped off,’ Ecologic Designs has been creating products like this for quite some time.
http://www.ecologicdesigns.com/products.html
In the end, I guess that it’s a good thing that companies are beginning to take this approach.
The basic idea of reuse has been around for a very long time - noone can say who’s taking from whom. However Timbuk2 (and Freitag) are taking this to a far more important level. To make one bag is easy, the trick is uncovering a sufficient supply of material to offer reuse commercially. Timbuk2 is significantly furthering the idea of reuse by developing new sources of materials and bringing the concept more widely to the US. Good luck to them!
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[...] While the rest of the world is making messenger bags in their bike shops from recycled truck tarps and old vinyl signage, Timbuk2 is still banging their heads against their cubicles trying to come up with a material for their own recycled bags. Timbuk2’s upcoming bag is called Lamitron—probably named after the process of fusing low- and high-density polyethylene into a waterproof, durable fabric. They haven’t announced pricing or a release date for their shopping-bar-and-milk-jug packs, so we’ll all have to keep polluting with the messenger bags we’re currently using. [...]