Peak Design

Scott Kranz grew up in Hastings, Minnesota, just south of the Twin Cities. As a company founded by a fella from Plymouth, we respect that. But that’s just the beginning of what we respect about Scott.Unsure of what he wanted to do post-college, Scott opted for law school. 3 ye...

Thanks to El Niño, the Sierras have actually seen some snow this winter, which means you can inevitably find at least one Peak member working from Tahoe at any given time. Peak’s Director of Business Development, Annie Nyborg, headed up recently for some snow fun and to check ...

Well, it’s not easy either. Designing products and launching them on Kickstarter takes a ton of work, and there is ample room for miscalculations, mis-steps, and good old fashioned ball-dropping.This shit is hard. Do not underestimate the complications.That little gem of a quo...

Lawrence Lander (Peak Design’s resident graphic designer/brand strategist/classic country crooner) is no stranger to the desert. A youth and adolescence in his native Texas ensured plenty of time traipsing around the Trans-Pecos and American Southwest, a camera never far out o...

We’re not good actors and we’ve never been in a Wes Andersen film. But thanks to our recent attendance at Photo Field Trip, we kinda know what living in a fantastical world of color, adventure and adorably vintage typefaces might be like.This February, for the 3rd time ever, P...

A scosche west of Lake Tahoe lies the Desolation Wilderness, a federally protected wilderness area patched with royal blue tarns, red firs and bulbous granite outcroppings. Through the center of Desolation runs the crest of the Sierra Nevada range.Last Summer, on the front sid...

Dave is Peak Design’s financial controller. Molly is our dear friend and part time user experience designer. This February they took off to Japan for 10 days, and when they came back everything had changed forever.

A friend of ours once told us that there are two types of people out there: differentiators and same-ers. Differentiators always seem to find the differences between things. Same-ers tend to fixate on the similarities. In this article, we’re going to do the former. In a future...

It‘s going to sound a little horn-tooty, but we‘re really not like that, we promise. At the time of writing this, we‘ve raised $7,130,163 over the course of 5 successful Kickstarter campaigns in 5 straight years. Here‘s the breakdown:2011: Capture Camera Clip | 5,258 backer...