A great bag, stuck behind a template. Now a brand and a store that sells it.

Live capture
Sacarla makes a commuter backpack with a racket compartment that clips on and off, for people who go from the 9 to 5 straight to a 6pm court. The founders, Fraser and Loz, had the product, a photoshoot and a half-built Shopify store that wasn’t turning visitors into buyers. Stock was six weeks away and they wanted pre-orders live first.
This was the store as the founders first built it themselves. Drag the handle to compare it with the page that replaced it. Both are captures of the real sites, the old one taken just before the switch.
Drag to compare · their own build vs the new store
I pitched three design directions and they picked “Studio”. Whichever they chose, the plan was the same: take money from day one, build the real store quietly behind it, then switch it on when the bags land. No locked “coming soon” page.


The new page on desktop and on a phone · hover to pan
What happened: the pre-order page went live on 9 October, eight days after the proposal. The full store is built, tested and waiting for stock day.
With no brand book, the bag itself set the rules: matte black, a single rubber badge and a court-green ball. I built a palette around that. Lime is the loud one, used for the ball and the buy button, and the rest stays quiet so the product leads.
I paired three free fonts into a simple type system, tightened the headline voice, and used the logo they chose as a clean transparent cut-out so it sits straight on the page. Everything was written up as a one-page brand sheet their team uses for social media.

The brand sheet I handed over for their social media
Fraser and Loz wrote all of the copy themselves, from the tagline to the returns policy. I did not rewrite it. My job was to give their words the right size, weight and space to land, so the voice on the page is unmistakably theirs.
A few of their lines, set the way they appear on the site:
Detach the racket. Change the mode.The tagline · Fraser & Loz
Most padel bags are designed for the court. The Sacarla backpack was designed for everything around it too.The statement · Fraser & Loz
Sacarla. To take it out.The name · Fraser & Loz


