Red Camper: Travel. Bags.
Red Camper's limited-edition “Lunar Landing” style
No surprise this one came by way of the art department.
One of our art directors passed on a link to Red Camper, a Denver company that manufactures one-of-a-kind tote bags and computer bags from vintage slides, old magazines and fabric. The slides are encased in clear plastic, which lets the light illuminate them soprettily, it seems almost a shame to put anything in the bag.
The extremely limited-edition “Lunar Landing” style (there are only two!) is made with images from a 1969 edition Life magazine.
The bags range in price from $96 to $300 and are partially manufactured in California, according to the Web site for the 3-year-old company. According to the latest blog post, the company was selling wholesale but recently scaled back operations to direct-sales only through its own store and Etsy. (And they also do custom bags.)
I especially love the copy on the “Hawaiian Dreams in a Midwestern Reality” style, which reads like a lost episode of “Mad Men”:
“Everyone wondered why Bobby and Rose's house had Hawaiian floral curtains in the middle of the Midwest.
Bobby went fishing in the same lake every weekend for 35 years. Rose stayed home, tended to chores, trimmed the blooming bushes and kept the grandbaby penned up in the old wooden playpen all while dreaming of sultry summer nights on a Hawaiian Holiday. The leis, the luaus, the sandy beaches and the flowery skirts she would wear walking in the sand at sunset.
Then Bobby came home one day and said he was taking her on surprise vacation and to pack her bags for departure the next day. Rose rushed out and bought up 10 yards of the most beautiful fabric for her beach-strolling outfit and rushed home to start sewing.
There on the kitchen table was the atlas, opened to Minnesota, land of a thousand lakes."
Red Camper's “Hawaiian Dreams in a MidWestern Reality” tote
