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Where ONA Goes: The Faroe Islands with Rachel Gulotta
We've been longtime friends of the good folks at Passion Passport, and have featured quite a few adventurers who have gone on Passion Passport trips on this blog, including Mat Rick (Passport Express) and Jeff McAllister (The Bucket List Initiative).The most recent Bucket...
Photographer Profile: Jay Cassario
Wedding photographer Jay Cassario has had a fascinating career. In a prior life, he was a bodybuilder, and then became a network engineer for one of the world's largest cable companies before finally quitting that job to become a full-time wedding shooter. These...
What's in Abbie Roden's Palma
We first got to know Abbie Roden a few years ago when she was interviewing at ONA for a social media opening. While she ultimately ended up at The Frye Company, where she's currently a Social Media Associate, we've kept in touch...
Photographer Profile: Valeriy Poltorak
Valeriy Poltorak is an up-and-coming photographer who is deeply embedded in the Pacific Northwest Instagram scene. In addition to running his own feed under the handle @mrvalography, he is also co-manager of the @IGers_Seattle account. In today's Photographer Profile, learn more about how...
Where ONA Goes: Iceland with Helena La Petite
Helena La Petite is a food and lifestyle photographer, and you may also know her as the co-founder and creative director of Portfolio Magazine, a lifestyle magazine published by The Magic Elephant. When Helena and her Portfolio co-founder Rasa got in touch to let us...
What's in William Bichara's Five ONA Bags
We love to hear when customers have put our bags through the paces and come back to us for their next bag purchase. William Bichara now has five messenger bags from ONA, which means that he has now repeated that process...
A Look Back at 2015
2015 has been a milestone year at ONA: We celebrated our fifth anniversary, introduced our inaugural collection of laptop briefcases, and (thanks to WeWork!) saw ONA displayed in front of thousands of New Yorkers on a billboard in the heart...
Photographer Profile: Manik Rathee
As we close out 2015, our five-year-anniversary in our rearview mirror, we wanted to introduce you to another one of our early customers. Manik Rathee owns one of the most beautifully broken-in Union Street messengers we've ever seen, and it makes sense...
Photographer Profile: Tyson Wheatley
A former journalist, photographer Tyson Wheatley only picked up a camera about five years ago. More specifically, he dove into photography as a result of his iPhone and that magical little app we all know as Instagram. After following his work for years, we finally got...
Gift Guide: Holiday Picks for the Creative Professional
Earlier this month, we asked the entire ONA team to come up with a list of holiday picks for the creative lifestyle. On the lookout for some new headphone and speaker options, or perhaps a new coffee brewing kit? Searching for that perfect briefcase...
Office Tour: charity: water with Jamie Pent
Last year, we launched The Sahel, a collaboration camera strap with charity: water, the New York City non-profit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. Through that partnership, we met charity: water's videographer Jamie Pent, who...