Issue 68 · January 16, 2025
All issuesAlright, 2025 not the start we were all looking for. Our hearts and minds are with all of our friends in LA who've been impacted by the fires. We've set aside as much product as we can, so if you or someone you know lost gear, Bandit or otherwise, we've got you. Please reach out to us whenever ready: support@banditrunning.com.
In other news, our hiatus from the 'gram comes to an end v soon. Nice lil' breather every once and a while is chicken noodle soup for the creative soul. Stay tuned. The lion will speak. Also that commercial haunted us growing up. Why the kid look like he murdered Frosty in cold blood? Can we get an ID on where my man is today?
5 Big Booms for B-Mail: photo contest winners, our AMA answers, Rossi's predictions, the Runlimited interview, and the EOY survey results.
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Move over Joe Greer, there's about 12 new sheriffs in town. We opened the flippity-floodgates to the community (that's you) for submissions of any flicks, pics, snaps, shots, and stills you got featuring Bandit in 2024. About 400-odd submissions later, we've got a few big winners and honorable mentions as far as these runner eyes can see...
PHOTO CONTEST
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We got softballs, we got curveballs, we got cutters, we got heaters. The EOY AMA came with all types of questions and we took a swing at damn near all of them. Dive into the design process, how we keep things fresh, our shipping woes, and finally the answer to the most asked question: why things sell out so damn fast.
AMA ANSWERS
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For company culture, some offices have ping pong tables, others have happy hours or summer Fridays... At Bandit HQ, we like to build culture by locking Rossi in the junk closet with nothing more than a case of Monster and a crystal ball. He doesn't know the crystal ball isn't real, no one spoil this for him.
CRYSTAL BALL
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(*Resists overwhelming urge to write this whole intro in British tongue*) Squad, please meet Jonty Brown and Molly Bryan, all around legends and co-founders of our newest UK stockists, Runlimited . They're building bridges, slignin' shoes, and putting on events in the Smoke. Big tings, innit.
RUNLIMITED
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We're something of a data scientist ourselves. This is like Spotify Wrapped except instead of your favorite music and super clever visual personal listening statistics, it's our CEO making "infographics" (they're not infographics) based on answers to a variety of questions no one needed to ask in the first place.
CRYSTAL BALLThe most anticipated new restaurant openings in NYC in 2025. A list of the best hotels for a weekend in Brooklyn. Saks 5th Ave collabs with Saturday Night Live. A 6-time marathoner, who is a chihuaha, looks to break its own record in 2025. New research report highlights the type of running shoes that put you at the highest risk of injury. A summary of the best real things that will actually exist from the CES show in Las Vegas. An absolute stunningly design space in Berlin that activates the art of longevity. Can someone lend us some money for Leica's new insanely Bauhaus-inspired dope cinema projector.
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