My first design collaboration was with Jon Bailey, who founded a high quality, eponymously named brand of bike messenger bags in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the Late 1980s. Jon's desings are renowned for their style and durability. His hand Xeroxed wholesale catalogs famously presented their bags' capacities in terms of cans of beer, and in the case of their banner model, a keg. I pitched my idea of turning our nearly inexaustible supply of canvas wall tents into one of a kind models to Jon one afternoon, and he was really supportive. I scoured deadstock Eureka brand tents (Made in Upstate New York in the mid 1970s), and had a vinyl lining printed at the closest Kinko to Bailey Works with a buffalo check pattern from a vintage Woolrich Shirt Jac. Each bag in the series of 24 was cut from a different part of the tent material, so that each bag was unique. I took some pictures, wrote some brief copy, and sent a presskit to Selectism editor Jeff Carvalho, who graciously posted it on his popular menswear fashioin blog. Read the full post here.