THE ORIGIN STORY

October 2024. I was in Africa hunting and every time I needed something — a bandage, sunscreen, tweezers — it wasn't on me. We'd open the first aid kit and it would be empty. Someone else had used it. I didn't have a pack. When you're up at 6am and on the road by 7, you forget things.

We were rolling in a Land Cruiser 12 hours a day across the bush. I always needed something and never had it on me. That's when it hit me — on me. It had to be on me. Not in a pack I'd forget. Not relying on someone else.

THE BUILD

I got home and told my wife I wanted to build something. We went to Scheels, REI, Cabela's. At point I said, 'does gear know if I'm hunting or hiking?' Everything was too hunting-specific or too hiking-specific. Every first aid kit was either gigantic or too small and still had to go in a pack, or was way-too-expensive for what it was. I went online and couldn't find anything that bridged these worlds.

So I started building.  Hours and hours of drawing, trying, then a duct tape belt I wore everywhere…sure, I looked weird, but I was a man on a mission and fashion didn’t matter. 

After months, my wife and I (more my wife) sewed the first belts and I began wearing them.

Then, we partnered with our friends at Kastle Kreative and began building prototypes.  Twelve months of prototypes, hundreds of miles covered by my beta testers as we all hiked and hunted throughout the Wasatch front for 9 months. 

Multiple revisions, one patent application later — The Artamis Belt was real.  Today we’ve kept building in Utah, with everything, our office and warehouse, here.

THE WHY

At Artamis, we’re just like you – hiking, hunting, kid chaos, errands being run.

We want first aid and essentials to be like socks. Your socks don't care where you are going. They aren't hiking socks or hunting socks. They're just socks — and you never forget socks. Some are heavy for cold weather, some are light for hot weather, but they're just socks.

We wanted to create the socks of first aid.

Gear that didn't matter if you were hiking or hunting or taking your toddler for a walk.
Something worn on your body, not stuffed in a pack.
Something you'd never leave behind because you'd never take it off.

American made. Patent pending. Built for wherever you go.

THE WHO

Matt and Stephanie Powell, from Farmington, Utah.

We build gear we actually use — on the trail, in the truck, at the playground, on the job. We wear our belts everywhere. That's the whole point.