http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog Love your work. Thu, 22 May 2008 17:30:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you haven't visited our site yet this spring you should. A lot has changed. There are two additions to the workbag line-up, including the Zip-tote and the Workhorse. We also have introduced new "greener" materials, including ecofriendly kvadrat cotton and bark-tanned suede. http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2008/03/17/spring-has-sprung-at-sstein/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } In the mood for fall, originally uploaded by A Page. Sometimes you need to take your work with you, even when you are stopping in at the pumpkin patch. We are enjoying ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/10/15/in-the-mood-for-fall/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; height: 338px; width: 450px;} .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hanging out in at Jackson Lake Lodge, originally uploaded by A Page. You never know where you might see one of our bags. This one was found resting ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/10/11/all-work-and-no-play-make-jackie-a-dull-girl/ Along comes the Maharam slim computer bag from S.STEIN. If you have not experienced the beauty of Maharam wool yet, you will be completely bowled over by it's beauty. Sherry has spent countless hours in the studio, making one prototype after another, until she finally landed on this. It also ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/09/21/just-when-you-though-you-had-died-and-gone-to-heaven/ Our bags have traveled a bit over the last year. You would never believe the sites they have seen. The green toolbag checked out a very cool UFO watchtower in Antonito, Colorado. And our new toolbag checked out Monument Valley. Bags not pictured here went to various wonderful places, like Ecuador, Aspen, ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/09/21/our-bags-are-going-places/ Jude in the garden Originally uploaded by A Page. I stopped in to visit my friends Judy and Michael the other day, and found Judy out weeding in the garden, and guess what she was wearing? It's true, one of our toolbelts. ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/08/25/jude-in-the-garden/ I was organizing my shelves of bag samples from the last two years the other day and realized I had this fascinating trail of design samples leading back to the first ideas for the Toolbag - from the "what WAS I thinking" to the "ok, this is starting to go ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/06/10/the-birth-of-the-toolbag/ You probably know that Sherry and I are business partners at a distance; she lives in Santa Fe, and I live in Portland. Which one of us has the better end of the deal? I can tell you that I am green with envy, and it is not just the ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/04/10/green-with-envy/ We are busily working on laying the foundation for our new company that extends the S.STEIN brand into an eco-friendly line of products. Sher and I each held focus groups at our homes with friendly audiences. Our other partners will be doing the same in the coming weeks. I invited ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/03/24/a-womans-work-is-never-done/ Surprise of all surprises. Advertising actually works! I don't mean advertising in the conventional sense. We did sign up for Google adwords and all of the usual stuff. What works the best is advertising by word of mouth. And guess what else? It costs the least. It costs the ... http://ssteindesign.com/S.STEIN_blog/2007/03/16/guess-what-we-discovered-2/