Jon & I had a discussion about this. Part of what we do is design, develop and manufacture new products either for one of our brands or for one of our OEM clients. And having our own production studio helps.
In the last few weeks I’ve been reading threads about backpacks, messenger bags, etc in general and it appears that there’s not one design out there that appeals to the forum masses. Even on the threads about one of our backpacks I noticed folks mentioning how they wished it was smaller.
There seems to be some pretty general ideas on what most of you are looking for and there’s even some great ideas for new products. Well, Jon & I thought that this might be a good time to allow the members to channel their ideas and thoughts on new products. At least here, we’ll be listening!
Understandably we will not be able to make every idea a reality so we need to stick with more popular ones. If the idea of one new product appeals to most, we’ll start looking into it.
Oddly enough this was how I first started my business in 2001 when I crowdsourced (I don’t think the word existed back then) design and product ideas from the original Firing Line forum and The High Road. I guess in essence, I’ve finally come full circle 
Anyway I will be starting off by soliciting your thoughts on a compact backpack shortly but in the meantime the floors all yours.
Thanks!
Helm