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These KODAK travel cases let you have memorable ‘Kodak Moments’ by exploring the world

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Who knew that Kodak’s visual language would translate so wonderfully onto luggage design?! The bulbous forms are reminiscent of Kodak’s M35 and disposable FunSaver camera designs, and I can’t begin to tell you how MUCH I love that bold splash of yellow. You’d see that bag on the airport luggage belt from a mile away!

Designer: Hypt Design & Andy Kim

Designed as a set of three bags ranging from a small carry-on to a medium cabin/check-in case and a large check-in case, the Kodak luggage is a clever reinterpretation of the ‘Kodak Moment’ – the company’s famous slogan. Instead of photographs, however, the luggage focuses on travel, helping you create memorable experiences that are worthy of photographs. In doing so, Kodak still manages to be an integral part of the memory-making experience, but in an absolutely new way.

The three cases cover a wide range of travel needs and can be bought either individually or as a comprehensive traveling kit. The smallest is a perfect hard-case replacement for your laptop bag, letting you carry just the essentials and tech accessories (and probably your toiletries too), while the medium and large cases are ideal for clothes, footwear, food, and everything else you need on your holidays. All three bags come with hard-shell exteriors, with the Kodak logo embossed onto them through the vacuum-forming process. The medium and large cases have a smaller red Kodak logo on the top right corner too.

“The project was carried out with two goals: utilization of Kodak brand assets and satisfaction of the essence of luggage products,” says Hypt Design. Kodak is currently expanding to apparel and developing various brands with a strong focus on the ‘moment’, a key part of the Kodak experience from its camera-making days. “Therefore, the design story was set as a trip for the moment you want to leave behind,” Hypt Design adds.

The iconic Kodak logo inlaid into the bag as visual branding.

TSA-friendly combination lock

Caster wheels with the Kodak logo too

The bags are a combination of being flashy and functional, something that one could argue it has in common with Kodak’s cameras from its heyday too. Available in 5 colors, they’re distinctly different from other travel cases we’ve seen just given their color palette. There’s little you can do to deviate from the cuboidal nature of the bags, given that they need to have rectangular empty spaces, but the vibrant yellow and red variants make for a lasting impact, while the cream, olive, and black are a little more understated, for the kind of traveler who wants to make experiences and have Kodak moments without drawing attention!

A look at all the Kodak Luggage color variants

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Brilliant or bizarre? This travel case comes with its own detachable electric hoverboard

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Whether you want to ride around the cityside or have your luggage follow you around an airport without tugging away at it, the Trunk Car is a wild concept that has a little something for everyone.

Look at the image above and tell me you’re not shocked by its brilliance. A suitcase with a detachable hoverboard built into it instead of those crummy, small 360° wheels! Designed as a clever idea to make transport in general easy, the Trunk Car can either be used to move luggage around or to move you! The hard-shell travel case detaches from its wheel-and-handle platform to reveal what’s basically a hoverboard with handlebars. You can use this, for the most part, to ride around from one part of a neighborhood or campus to another, or when you’re traveling with luggage, just attach the hard shell onto the hoverboard and you now have a motorized travel-case that automatically moves in the direction you’re pulling it in, reducing the effort and allowing you to carry heavy items with relative ease!

The Trunk Car is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2022.

Designer: The 36th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

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Travel case with built-in baby stroller helps young parents carry their luggage and child together

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Here’s an idea that blew my mind. Why hasn’t a travel-case/baby-stroller hybrid existed yet?? It seems like just the kind of thing a parent would buy and use for a good 5-10 years of their life, so it’s surprising something like this was never made or launched. A winner of this year’s Red Dot Design Concept Award, Easy Journey is a travel case with an integrated stroller that pops right out of the front. Its clever hard-shell case design holds luggage but also has a fully equipped stroller with a hood and leg rest, big enough to fit a child up to the age of 18 to 24 months.

Designers: Chen Shilong, Fu Qiming, Ma Jinjin

Easy Journey is for traveling parents with young toddlers who need to be pushed around in a stroller. Instead of having the stroller exist as an independent product, designers at Taizhou University decided to build one right into a hard-shell travel case. The case comes with enough space on the inside to store your luggage (although the stroller does eat into some of it), and has 3 pairs of 360° wheels. When used as a travel case, it stands vertically, resting on 4 wheels on the bottom. However, when you want to use it in stroller mode, Easy Journey flips onto its back, with an extra pair of wheels popping out of the hardshell case’s interiors. The front (now the top) of the case opens up to reveal a rather comfortable baby seat, taking under a minute to use and set up. Easy Journey is perfect for parents with young kids, although one can make the case that the product has a relatively short lifespan once the kid outgrows the stroller. However, for parents looking to have more than one child, the stroller-case makes for a pretty nifty investment, allowing parents to travel with ease, carrying their luggage and children together in one organized, easy-to-maneuver unit!

The Easy Journey is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2022.

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