Spring is on its way!

Gorilla Sacks can't wait for the beautiful spring weather to arrive! We just love packing all our summer goodies in our Gorilla Sacks bags and hitting the streets (or maybe the beach) in our summer threads. We know we're not the only ones ready for summer, because we received a little love from the beaches in New Jersey this week. We know you're all itching for summer just as much as we are!

We love you too!!

Billboards Galore!

We know it's a little geeky, but here at Gorilla Sacks we just LOVE when a new shipment of billboards comes in. We can't wait to get the billboards out of the truck and open them up because for us it's like Christmas... so many presents and we have no idea what treasures we'll open. Delivery day is filled with Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dog, 50 Cent, some Crown Royal, and all the nice cars we could ever dream of. And to think we get another delivery in just two weeks! 


Unloading all of those celebrities into our warehouse can be tough work, but luckily we have just the man to do it. Gregorio is tough as nails and sweet as can be.

Gregorio unloaded 20 of those pallets!

What a guy!

Here at Gorilla Sacks we don't like to take ourselves too seriously, but when it comes to innovation, we put our game faces on. We take our work as eco-friendly innovators very seriously, in fact, so seriously that sometimes we forget we're not the only ones thinking about our products. We were recently pleasantly surprised by a Gorilla Sacks fan that takes the banana cake for not only using our recycled product, but repurposing it too! Talk about green! Atlanta native Brennan Collins turned our Green Mountain Messenger Bag into a pannier for his bike. How brilliant!

Brennan has kindly provided instructions for anybody who wants to make their own. Visit his blog to see step by step instructions and photos and you'll have your very own Gorilla Sacks pannier in no time!

http://formandfailure.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/diy-pannier/

It's officially official!

Gorilla Sacks has officially opened it's doors! Well, technically we've been in our office for over two weeks now, but nobody knew who we were. So we took a cue from the Gorilla Sacks dogs and decided we needed to mark our territory... so we put up a sign! Suite H is officially no longer a mystery office! Our bold new sign marks a site of innovation, hard work, fun team members, lots of billboards, cool bags and a determination to save the planet. Go team Gorilla Sacks!
 

Life is full of random surprises...

It's not often that Gorilla Sacks receives anything out of the ordinary from our mail lady, Sandra. But driving to work this morning, each on our own quest to get to work on time, we all noticed something different in the air, this day was going to be special. Low and behold, when Sandra's smiling face came to deliver our mail, there was a surprise...

Gorilla Sacks wants go thank Brent Leopold for the random, day-changing, week-changing, put-a-smile-on-our-faces letter and art he sent us. Thanks Brent!

Hello Lisa, 

This is mail art. Really a step better. I send art out to enjoy the process of random people getting art. My art is part of a local gallery, a lot of mail art shows, and found art. I got th eidea from guerilla advertising. Use your kraft to get your image out there. What I wanted is what the graffiti artists have done. Have art that travels! I don't think of fame, riches. I think of process and timing. I think my art is a gallery without walls. Still life is a sea, I don't want to feel I am laying in the sand, I want to see where the undertow sends me. Mail art can be lost, stolen, any random person can get it, trashed, but it falls where the hands send it. I found your company by searching 'Green recycled book bags.' I liked your logo, your bags' looks, so that is why you got this. Please keep the art safe, make sure if you do not like the image it gets in the hands of someone who does. 

Hope you will enjoy what I picked out.

Brent Leopold
www.google.com/profiles/foundmeart

Gee, looks like Lisa!

This painting is our favorite!

Green and clean!

Here at Gorilla Sacks we take special care to use only natural, safe and environmentally friendly cleaning solutions to clean our billboards. So we got to thinking, why are we treating our billboards better than ourselves? We deserve natural cleaning supplies just as much as our billboards do! So, we pulled our brains together and found recipes for all-natural, completely earth friendly cleaning products that we love. 

Who wants clothes that smell like chemicals? Not us! How about clothes that smell like lavender, or vanilla, or spices? Yes, please!

Laundry Detergent Recipe

½ bar Fels Naptha Soap, grated
1 cup Washing Soda
½ cup Borax
1 qt plus 1 gallon water
2 clean gallon jugs

Mix all ingredients in a pot and bring to a simmer so soap dissolves.  Cool slightly. Meanwhile, put ½ gallon water in each jug, add cooled soap mixture, finish with water if needed.

You can add essential oils to this if you like scented cleaners. Just a drop of lavender or rosemary oil goes a long way. (Try eucalyptus, it's our favorite!)

February Photo Contest

It's that time again. Time to bust out your cameras and those beautiful pearly whites and show us what you've got! This month we want to see your most fashionable, awesome, streetwise, Gorilla Sacks inspired outfit. Of course, the best outfits begin with the best bags, so you'll have to sport your Gorilla Sacks bag too. At the end of the month, you could have one more messenger bag to add to your Gorilla Sacks collection. Check out February's photo contest details on our website: http://www.gorillasacks.com/pages/Our-Bandmates.html

And... cue the music... our January winner: IAN!!! A big round of applause!

Ian uses his Gorilla Sacks messenger bag for all of his college books. Lookin' good!

What would we be without our BANDMATES??

We know that Gorilla Sacks wouldn't be where we are today without our loyal fans. So today's post is in honor of all those who wear our Gorilla Sacks bags proudly, who sing for joy when they throw our messenger bag over their shoulder, who shout from the rooftops in an expression of undying, never-ending, all consuming love for Gorilla Sacks. Ok, perhaps that's a stretch, but we raise our bananas to those who make us fan videos...