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2019 has been an amazing year and what we achieved this years with your support is a boost to do more in 2020. We really wish you to achieve your 2020 goals as well. 

As soon as ATD1’s Kickstarter campaign came to an end, i started feeling the need to put the whole journey on paper. It’s been a huge, completely new thing to me, fully managed by myself: i learned so many new things and i wanted to be sure that i wouldn’t have forgotten anything. On the other hand, i was so tired of everything related to crowdfunding that i just wanted to dive into production and fulfilling: they aren’t less stressful, but i already knew how to handle them, so I just postponed this recap. Now, waiting for my manufacturing partner to complete ATD1’s 2nd production run and working on new products, i feel this is the right time to sum up. Obviously,...

ATD1's second production run, including both packs and padded belts, is now in stock and ready to be shipped in the world.All pre-orders were picked up on Friday afternoon by Italian Posts directly at the manufacturing facility in central Italy and i just came back from there to my base in Milan.We were lucky enough to have received really few negative feedbacks in the first run, and never regarding the whole product but one or two details. I'm also glad i've just seen one ATD1 pack sold by the original buyer on forums, subreddits and Facebook groups, because this means users are satisfied of their purchase.Still, products have to be improved, constantly, and the advantage of small production runs is that we can do it quite quickly.Here...

We are honored to announce that ATD1 Backpack is one of the finalists in the seventh edition of Carryology Carry Awards, in the Best Carry On Bag category.We now need your vote! It only take less than a minute and no registration is requested: just click HERE, scroll down and click the circle under the ATD1 picture. That's it!Designing, testing, sampling and bringing this product to life has been a huge journey: let's try to achieve this goal as well, with your help.Thank you! Michele

Here you can Read some Questions & Answers with Jed at The Perfect Pack. we had a chat about bags design, crowdfunding, ATD1 backpack and future projects.