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As seen at MoMA New York…

If having a product displayed at Museum of Modern Art is not enough for you to consider a purchase of the Freitag product, we might convince you in the following story of an amazing brand.
It is 1993 in Zurich, Switzerland and Freitag’s brothers Markus and Daniel are desperately looking for a waterproof, functional messenger bag for cycling. Living next door to a busy transit intersection, they were inspired by the colourful track tarpaulins that were passing by, and given their graphic design professions, the first F13 TOP CAT messenger bag was born.
The Freitag bag has become an instant hit by the locals and fast forward today, the brand is available in 26 stores and sold by 300 resellers, producing bags, backpacks, wallets and accessories made out of used track tarpaulins, seat belts and cycling tubes as well as producing its own compostable F-ABRIC.

We think and act in cycles

Freitag
The brand is committed to a circular, closed-loop economy and furthermore since 2016 they have also abandoned the typical hierarchal structure and replaced it with a self-management based organisation.
Each product is a guaranteed original, as no bag is made from the same tarpaulin. And although the used track tarpaulins are sourced by the Freitag team and brought to Zurich for cutting and washing, the makers are entrusted manufacturers from Portugal, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Tunisia and Switzerland, making Freitag bags a truly Euro-bag.
When talking about sustainability and closed loops, the brand is using rain water for their laundry department and has a S.W.A.P. website, where you can swap your old Freitag bag for another one with fellow Freitag bag owner. How’s that for a closed-loop economy?

What does Freitag offer?

Bags and backpacks
Accessories

Why we love Freitag?

For us the brand is an pioneer of up cycling as well as lifetime lasting quality design, that speaks out for itself and definitely can spur a conversation of design and sustainability enthusiasts

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