At Boreas, we are aim to have consistently strong and beautiful products. We want you, our customers and friends, to feel confident, happy, and ready to take on the world with our pack on your back. For such a young company, Boreas has had superior recognition for the quality, design, innovation, and functionality our backpacks possess. While we [...]
Bicycles. Roller skates. Space ships. Boats. Trains. Light rails. Ski’s. Cars. Unicycles. Your own two feet. What do all of these things have in common? All of the above are modes of transportation getting us where we want to be. Moving from place to place out of necessity or curiosity—we have to get there somehow, [...]
By now, you are kind of getting to know us. I know, we’re newish, but we are making our way into your hearts and onto your backs to ready you for your next adventure. Here at Boreas, we are pretty hip to doing good for the earth and each other which is why we are [...]
Boreans would love to be in their natural habitat at all times—the great outdoors. Instead we decided to build a company on principle, design, and functionality to keep you, our friend, out there longer. What can we say, we like you a lot. Over the next few months, we will bringing you stories from our [...]
Hello Interwebs! We have not been giving you the well-deserved attention you need because we have been growing! Boreas is growing in ideas and talent with every passing day and we want you to know—we did not forget about you! As the company grows, so does our office. New faces are popping up left and [...]
Our friend Chris runs a conservation travel company in Mexico’s Baja peninsula. They combine ecotourism with conservation activities to create stewardship of natural resources and strengthen local communities and their economies. Alejandra is Education Coordinator for the RED Sustainable Travel project. The only thing she loves more than watching mangroves grow is travelling to rural [...]
It’s hardly the first time these have been written about online. Designer Dieter Rams, head of Braun’s design team for close to 40 years, had an iconic style that helped define the mid-20th-century aesthetic. He also had ten rules for good design. They’ve been detailed on a number of websites (we provide one at the [...]
Behold! The griddy glory that is ripstop nylon, a staple of the outdoor industry. Nylon has been around since before World War II, when it took off as a replacement for silk parachute cloth. It’s a favorite fabric of outdoor gear designers and pantyhose fetishists. We’ll cover the former here. If you own outdoor gear, [...]
Back in the good old days, before some of us were born and before any of us were designing outdoor gear, REI and EMS were limited to a few bricks-and-mortar stores, The North Face was a little company that made tents and bags and most people spent time outdoors in order to shoot things. Thirty-five [...]
Pretty nifty animation, huh? We had to resort to this level of visual sophistication to show off our peek-a-boo daisy chains. They’re there when you need ‘em but tuck away neatly into the body of the pack when you don’t. It’s a little thing, but keeping the overall look of the pack clean and simple [...]