Reflective Backpacks and Bags for Darker Days

You leave the office at the usual time. Take the same turn, pass the same café, head toward the same train. Only now, it is already dark.

The autumn clock change makes that shift feel sudden. Daylight has been fading for weeks, but turning the clocks back brings sunset an hour earlier on the clock. The journey home becomes a nighttime journey, even when your schedule has barely changed.

Our Phantom and Phantom Endurance backpacks and bags are designed with those journeys in mind. Their reflective surfaces respond to incoming light, such as car headlights, helping make you more noticeable after dark. Both bring reflectivity into our minimalist designs, with one key difference: Phantom is water-resistant, while Phantom Endurance has a waterproof construction.

Phantom: reflectivity for everyday city life

A ride to work, a walk to the station, an evening across town. The Phantom Series brings a reflective surface to the bags you carry through your everyday routine.

The Hajo and Jannik Roll-Top Backpacks offer options for days when you need more space. For lighter outings, the Jona and Ando Crossbody Bags bring the same reflective material into smaller formats.

By day, the material looks matte and understated. When headlights catch it, the surface reflects the light back toward its source. That change is built into the fabric, keeping the clean appearance that defines our bags.

Phantom also offers protection against everyday showers. Its coated material repels water, but its stitched construction means moisture can enter through the seams during heavy or prolonged rain. For those conditions, we recommend a rain cover.

Phantom Endurance: reflective and waterproof

Darker evenings often arrive with wetter weather. If your bike is still your first choice when rain is in the forecast, the Phantom Endurance Series adds another level of weather protection.

It combines a reflective exterior with waterproof construction and high-frequency welded seams. Instead of stitching the panels together, this process bonds the material to create watertight joins, preventing rain from entering through the seams.

The difference matters on longer commutes and journeys through heavy or persistent rain. Phantom Endurance is designed for those conditions, bringing visibility and rain protection together in one backpack.

Choose Phantom for everyday journeys and changing light. Choose Phantom Endurance when those journeys also call for waterproof protection.

What makes the material reflective?

Both series use microscopic glass beads that return incoming light toward its source. When a beam from a vehicle’s headlights reaches the material, it creates a bright reflective effect.

The bags do not generate light themselves or glow continuously in darkness. Their reflectivity depends on light reaching the surface, so keep it exposed when you wear your bag.

Think of it as an additional visibility feature within your everyday setup, alongside bike lights and other reflective equipment.

Designed for the journey after dark

In Berlin, the change of season is something you notice on the way home. Bike lights come on earlier. Shop windows brighten the sidewalk. The last stretch of a familiar route takes place under streetlights.

These are the moments we design for: everyday journeys that continue as the conditions change.

Whether you need a compact crossbody bag for an evening out or a waterproof backpack for the ride home, our reflective collections bring a useful response to the darker months.

The clocks change. Your plans carry on.