Luma
Luma Backpack by Colin Heston is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion and Travel Accessories Design.
Luma is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Luma is a backpack made using a patented 3D knitting process that reduces material waste and simplifies production. Unlike traditional cut and sew methods, this approach produces fully shaped components directly from digital patterns with minimal waste and labor. The backpack is constructed from single strands of 100% pre-consumer recycled nylon, helping to lower energy use, emissions, and material waste. Luma's design is informed by nature and aims to offer a balance of function and sustainability through a streamlined minimalistic form.
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Luma by Colin Heston
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Backpack
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Fashion and Travel Accessories Design Award Winner in 2025.
Bronze Winner
Luma Backpack
Luma is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Luma is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Luma splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Colin Heston
Colin Heston is an industrial designer merging sustainability, technology, and user-centric innovation to create next-generation carry solutions. With a background in Industrial Design from Thomas Jefferson University and experience in manufacturing operations, he blends cutting-edge materials with sustainable techniques. His latest project, a revolutionary 3D-knit backpack, exemplifies his commitment to sustainability, technology, and modern aesthetics. By pushing the boundaries of design and production, he crafts products that minimize waste while enhancing functionality. Passionate about redefining everyday essentials, he challenges conventions to shape the future of sustainable, high-performance gear.
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Heston Design
Heston Gear is redefining the future of everyday carry accessories through the lens of innovation, sustainability, and intentional design. At the forefront of advanced manufacturing, Heston Gear explores cutting-edge processes such as 3D knitting, automated fabrication, and modular construction to create products that are both high-performance and responsibly made. By leveraging futuristic materials and embracing a circular design philosophy, the brand delivers sleek, sustainable, and functional essentials for the conscious consumer. Heston Gear isn’t just building gear—it’s shaping a smarter, more sustainable way to carry.
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