{"id":8827,"date":"2013-08-04T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk:\/press\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2013-08-04T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T13:06:21","slug":"our-big-idea-smax-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unsponsored.co.uk\/press\/our-big-idea-smax-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Big Idea &#8211; SMAX Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These bags look superb.  The idea behind them was to recycyle or even upcycle vinyl advertising posters to creating something useful and in each case unique. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smaxbags.com\" target=\"_blank\">SMAXBros<\/a> have really created something special here.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0220\/5064\/files\/GearRevial_grande.jpg?1002\" width=\"448\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The idea for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smaxbags.com\" target=\"_blank\">SMAXbags<\/a> was born from a desire to make bags for ourselves that we could use and abuse and different from all other bags. We found out about billboard vinyl from a friend in the ad business, got our hands on some and started working with the material. We wanted to create unique hand crafted upscale product that we would be proud to use ourselves. 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