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Custom Mojitos

July 28, 2010

We recently wrapped up two very cool collaborations. We produced custom Mojito wallets for Mozilla, the group behind Firefox, and Modern Atlanta, a rapidly growing organization that promotes design and architecture excellence.
The wallets turned out great, although we may be a little biased! With the crowds that these two organizations run with, we know the [...]

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Going and Need Gear

March 22, 2010

If you’re apart of our Facebook fan page (and you should be, if not!), you may know about our Going and Need Gear initiative. It’s for those who are planning to travel and need some great travel gear to take with them. You simply tell us about your plans- where, when and why you’re excited [...]

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The Diplomat’s Diplomat…plus a new epilogue: “The Real Story”!

November 16, 2009
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You may have noticed some trends in our product names: basically, all our products are named after travel related things. Wallets are named after international drinks, our toiletry cases are tropical beach destinations, and our bags – travel professions. Most names are straight from our twisted minds here at the studio. Others are from nagging [...]

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Dual Citizenship: 2 IS better than 1.

April 29, 2009
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This post is a bit of a pay-it-forward. A random meeting in the gym led to me gaining my dual nationality so, it’s the least I can do to pass on the word and hopefully help someone else. I recently regained my Belgian nationality which gives me dual Belgian/American nationality.  I didn’t waste any time [...]

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Delayed Reaction

March 26, 2009
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I want the title  “Punk before Punk was Punk”. Unfortunately I am way too  late, and the NY Times already gave the title to a band with the cute little name, Death.
Actually, I am probably not even punk by most people’s standards. So, I’ll have to settle for “35 years too late, and way off [...]

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The Slow Way Home

March 15, 2009
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Our friend Paul is in the middle of an epic journey. I call Paul a friend but we have actually only hung out once. We got along great, but I have learned a lot more about him and his outlook through his accounts of his current adventure and our long distance communications.
Paul is originally from [...]

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