“I was about to leave back downstairs when she put the bag around her waist, put a sketchbook in it, and joyfully showed it to the people standing around her table. “Oh!” - I heard someone saying - “Where did you get that??” Before I could blink, three sketching bags were sold from my suitcase...”

In the 4th and last part of The Walkit Story I am telling about how the bags and I reached Amsterdam and what happened to us there.

“I felt helpless. It was the first time the solution was not in my hands! I had to rely on someone else’s hands! How do you ask someone to be your brain and your hand and be just as passionate and fanatic about that thing as you, the owner of the idea? Impossible.”

In the 3rd part of The Walkit Story I am recalling the steps, joys and challenges of the product development process.

Come and walk with me to Crete, Porto, Tajikistan and Őrség! The 2nd part of The Walkit Story is about trips that have essentially shaped the idea and concept of the sketching bags.

How does a creative process take shape? How do its seemingly random elements build up into a process?

It has been almost two years since I designed the Walkit sketching bags and the Walkit brand came to life.

On the occasion of this second birthday, I’ve started reflecting on the milestones along the road. It was quite a journey, and it all started at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Lisbon, 2011. Do you remember?