Peak Design

Peak Design is an American company designing bags, camera-carrying gear and travel accessories, and it has grown almost entirely on crowdfunding. In 2010 founder Peter Dering came back from a trip around the world convinced that carrying a large camera could be done better: he quit his job, designed a new way to carry it and launched the result on Kickstarter, where the project took off.

The catalogue has since widened from camera straps and clips to tripods, packing cubes, phone cases and mounts, motorcycle gear and rollers, sold online and through the company’s own stores in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Portland and Boulder. Peak Design has stayed investor-free, makes its bags in a Fair Trade certified factory in the Philippines, and keeps a lifetime warranty on what it sells.