Jennifer BrookInterview
Interaction designer, book artist
Adapted from Jennifer Brook's interview on Uses This, published 12 November 2013. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
My gear fits inside a 30-liter backpack, currently a black Mariposa Summit Pack from Rivendell Mountain Works.
Everything inside my pack is organized inside its own bag; my clothes in a 6L dry compression sack, my toiletries and electronics in separate dry sacks of varying sizes, and everything else in MUJI zipper pouches or mesh sacks.
When laundry services aren't available, I wash my own clothes.
When confronted with an overstuffed or insufficient pillow, I'm grateful to have this inflatable one.
Love GoToobs for leak-free shampoo containment.
This lock with cable is great for securing my pack to furniture, luggage racks, or my motorbike.
I have a few gear ties for organizing cords, closing road snacks, and attaching things to other things and tiny s-clips for holding keys and hanging items from my bag or motorbike.
I keep a travel thread kit for clothing repairs and foldable TSA-approved scissors for miscellaneous snipping, both from the lovely Kiosk.
I carry Sugru mini packs for repairs, improvements, and augmentations of my kit.
Communication
I love Foursquare for remembering places when I'm in cities and have access to wifi.
Productivity
When I'm working, I live in Keynote.
Security
Coding & Development
Design
Media
I love finding new music while traveling and use SoundHound to tag and identify songs and artists; its instant Karaoke feature has untapped potential.
Storage
Other
I use the XE app for calculating difficult conversions.