Built between
a backpack and
a coffee shop.

A note from Jerry

Hi — I'm Jerry. I'm a designer based in London, originally from Hong Kong, and I've spent the last few years working out of coffee shops, co-working spaces, airport lounges and far too many trains. Living out of a backpack will teach you fast that every gram matters, and so does your posture after the third hour of head-down typing.

I bought a portable monitor for the freedom — and immediately ran into the same problem at every desk: there was nothing decent to put it on. So I improvised. Stacks of books. A folded jumper. A laptop balanced on top of another laptop. By the end of most days my neck felt like it had been carrying my laptop, not the other way around.

I searched everywhere for a stand that was actually built for the way mobile work works in 2026 — small enough to live in the side pocket of a backpack, strong enough to hold a real screen, fast enough to set up before my flat white arrived. There wasn't one. So I sketched, prototyped, broke a lot of aluminium, and eventually had something I trusted enough to ship.

That's the CarryRise Portable Monitor Stand. 380 grams. 3 kilograms of load. 15 seconds from "in your bag" to "at eye level." It's the thing I wish I'd had three years ago, and it's the first of a small, opinionated line of CarryRise gear for people whose office is wherever they parked their laptop.

We're a tiny team based in London. We answer our own emails, listen to our own customers, and only ship things we'd actually use ourselves. If you've got an idea, a frustration, or a story about where you've used yours — please do drop me a line.