Wolf Backpack Mosaic of Colors

Built from tiles, not drawn

The wolf here is assembled out of coloured fragments rather than illustrated. Enough of them to be unmistakably an animal, few enough that you can see the construction.

Mosaic is one of the oldest decorative techniques there is, and it has always worked on the same principle: stand close and you see pieces, stand back and you see a picture. On a bag panel that means it rewards a second look in a way a photographic print does not.

The style that has dated best

Photographic wildlife prints tie themselves to the moment they were made. Geometric and mosaic treatments do not, because they were never trying to look real in the first place.

Ten years on, the tiled wolf still looks deliberate while the realistic one looks like a phone wallpaper from 2015.

Easy to spot as yours

The practical benefit of a bright bag. In a cloakroom, an office or an airport carousel full of black rectangles, a mosaic of colour is picked out instantly.

The bag

29 x 16 x 42 cm, Oxford fabric and black nylon, foam-lined back panel, air cushion shoulder straps, strong zips.

Water resistant rather than fully waterproof: the fabric sheds rain, and the zips and seams are not sealed.

Inside there is room for a laptop in a sleeve, a bottle, lunch and a jacket.

See the wolf backpack range.

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