Weightshifting: The Pack
After decades of travel, packing has become muscle memory.
Air travel packing has rules:
- Carry-on only
- Ultralight
- Malleable
- No rolling/wheel-based luggage
- We should be able to carry all luggage on our persons
- All gear should do double or triple duty in different contexts
Pictured above is the result of those rules. We’ll be gone for 10 days.
Everything goes into the Pa’lante V2.
The matching sling bag is custom made by wizard friend Tyler Nutter. It’s made for everyday carry and holds a surprising amount of gear for its light weight. It holds camera, notebooks, e-reader, chargers, audio gear, snacks, and essentials. I LOVE this bag.
This zero-waste, minimalist approach shapes how I think about everything.
Days before the world shut down in 2020, I met with Shaza Hakim, and one of her designers. Shaza runs a successful and beloved design studio, Stampede, in Malaysia. I had never met her before, but she reached out to me on Instagram, and I agreed to meet for coffee. As usual, Sightglass, because I meet everyone there. She told me how Weightshift was inspiring to her so long ago. Her thoughtfulness and approach to building and growing her studio and the various people who’ve come through it to venture out on their own was meaningful to hear about. She’s taken her studio beyond what Weightshift aspired to.
I tell Shaza’s story and how we met because in a last-minute sprint, she and Stampede are holding a fireside chat with me in Kuala Lumpur. What started out as “Let’s get coffee.” → “Let’s get some people together for dinner.” → “Let’s hold a smallish event for a wider range of people to attend.” She’s been generous with her time, and I’m incredibly grateful for it.
To quote from the Luma invitation:
“How do you design at a global scale while staying true to who you are? Naz and Shaza will explore maintaining cultural authenticity while building for everyone, balancing sustainable practices with commercial reality and staying human-centred when efficiency dominates.
Drawing from shaping Web 2.0 and now navigating AI's transformation, we'll unpack how Malaysian practitioners can leverage our "between worlds" positioning as a competitive advantage, not a limitation.”
More from Stampede on LinkedIn.
If you're in KL September 2nd, join us for what should be a fascinating conversation about designing between worlds. We’re hoping to open up the conversation and have a discourse with all attendees.
Selamat jalan,
Naz.