Peak Design

For the record, we're not here to bash #vanlife. A quarter of the Peak Design team has either lived in a van or currently owns an endearingly unreliable adventuremobile. We love that our generation (we're all millennial-ish in age) romanticizes life on the road, unburdened by ...

Getting a great deal on travel usually means visiting a place in the low season or shoulder season. It also means seeing a slightly different side of that place than you normally get on travel blogs and social media.Still, sometimes you see a deal on a flight that’s too good t...

The other day we got some ants in our pants. Not sure how it happened, but we needed to get them out. And there's only one way we know how to get rid of pants ants:Orange Mocha Frappuccinos!No, wait, we meant dancing around town and taking pictures.

Bellingham, Washington (a.k.a. The 'Ham, a.k.a. Hamelot) is the City of Subdued Excitement. Literally, that's the town's official nickname, look it up. One of our designers, Rachel (a.k.a. RayRay, a.k.a. Hay Haaay Ray Raaay) grew up in The Ham and we'll be damned if her excite...

We've done a few installments of our Kickstarter 101 Field Notes series. Most of our articles have focused on the strategic side of running a crowdfunding campaign. Now it's time to get down to brass tacks.Kickstarter itself is a tool. It's a fundraising tool, a storytelling t...

Yeah, we're pretty freakin' stoked. If you have no idea what we're talking about, here's a quick background: a couple weeks ago we launched Give a Shot, a site connecting photographers & videographers with environmental nonprofits in need of visual storytelling content. Darren...

The last time we checked in with John Dunaway, he was captaining a 489-foot container ship through the Gulf of Mexico. This time he's driving a different kind of vessel, on a different kind of terrain, in a different part of the world. Other than that, same ol' same ol'.The re...

Liam Lonsdale. A great name for a Chevy dealership owner. Liam Lonsdale does not own a Chevy dealership. But if you met Liam, you can bet your ass you'd be ready to buy or lease a certified pre-owned 2015 Silverado Crew Cab (with the off-road package) from the guy after about ...

Avid readers of this Field Notes journal may recall us name-dropping Elizabeth and Jonathan Combs in a previous story about a grueling traverse of the "W" down in the depths of Chilean Patagonia. For the uninitiated, these two form two-thirds of a creative collective called Th...