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This Kick Scooter Converts From Backpack To Longboard

OLAF kick scooter workshop

Kick scooter, pronounced ‘geek scooter.’

Kick scooters are gaining popularity in many populous urban and suburban areas worldwide. As Europe leans toward sustainable mobility, more and more creative ideas are addressing the issue of daily commuting. Designed and engineered in a home garage in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the OLAF Kick Scooter is one such attempt to alleviate the ‘last-mile’ problem.

Engineer Bostjan Zagar and his father developed an open platform kick scooter, OLAF Urban, that can carry any bag or backpack.

A unique feature is that if used with the provided OLAF backpack, the scooter itself is a backpack, and if the handle is folded, also a longboard.

Jure Lozic, designer of Musguard – rollable bike fender, calls the  folding mechanism “an engineering marvel, simple and effective”. Bostjan owns a patent and hopes it will take him from A to B, where B is mass production. Slovenia has ample production capabilities, so an eventual goal would be global manufacture.

After almost three years of research and development, Zagar was confident enough to start crowd funding at Kickstarter.

To broaden the odds of success, he implemented the same folding mechanism to an existing concept of carry-on kick scooter, OLAF Business. Now you really can cross the Atlantic with a kick scooter. “It’s the coolest carry-on!

PRINT ALL OVER ME co-creates collection with WORKING NOT WORKING

WORKING NOT WORKING is an obsessively curated network of the world’s best creative talent. With so many incredible artists in their arsenal, it seemed obvious that PAOM (PRINT ALL OVER ME) and WNW should create a collection!

Eight amazing illustrators and designers from around the world were chosen to be a part of the first WNW X PAOM collection. They are Tatiana Arocha, Laura Callaghan, Annu Kilpeläinen, Uli Knoezer, David McLeod, Karan Singh, Brian Vu and Shawna X.

On Thursday, November 12th we hosted a party at Rivington Design House in NYC.

Tote bag by Tatiana Arocha, $28USD
Tote bag by Tatiana Arocha, $28USD

 

Sweatshirt by Uli Knoezer, $85USD
Sweatshirt by Uli Knoezer, $85USD
Raincoat by Annu Kilpeläinen, $145USD
Raincoat by Annu Kilpeläinen, $145USD
Backpack by Karan Singh, $65USD
Backpack by Karan Singh, $65USD
Twill jacket by Brian Vu, $120USD
Twill jacket by Brian Vu, $120USD
Midi skirt by Shawna X, $80USD
Midi skirt by Shawna X, $80USD
Kimono by Laura Callaghan, $72USD
Kimono by Laura Callaghan, $72USD

 

Workshirt by David McLeod, $89USD
Workshirt by David McLeod, $89USD

For more from Working Not Working, check out their website and follow them on Twitter & Instagram. Shop the entire WNW x PAOM collection here.
All above photographs by Michael Burk, model Olu Alege.

Shining Hoodie by Jarrod Barker. Click me!
Shining Hoodie by Jarrod Barker. Click me!