Tooth and Ink

I am staring at a fat, open-spine binding with a white cross on the cover. A gift from Pia Wallén at her gleaming, oh-so-Swedish studio in Stockholm. My wife and...

Building Without Permission

I spent twenty years pretending I knew how to build websites. I called it dabbling, but really I was just learning enough CSS to change a hex code or move...

Impossible Triangle

I spent forty-five minutes today explaining why shipping is complicated to an app developer. On his screen, software travels at the speed of light. In my world, a twenty-foot container...

Slow Boat

I'm staring at a cell in a spreadsheet labeled: Estimated Landed Cost. The number shifts every time I toggle between shipping 500 units to a warehouse in Northampton versus keeping...

Iterating at Speed: 3D Printing Our Dual-Sided MagSafe Power Banks

Speed and precision meet in our latest project: a dual-sided MagSafe power bank. To get the ergonomics exactly right, we’ve turned to 3D printing for our rapid prototyping phase. This...

Ribbon Color Selection

Selecting the right details for our upcoming A5 MagSafe enabled notebook is a process of trial and error. We’ve been experimenting with various ribbon bookmark combinations to find the perfect...

Mitutoyo Warranty Perfected

We believe that the tools we choose to keep in our studio dictate the quality of everything we create. On of our most cherished instrument is the Mitutoyo MIT500-196-30 AOS...

Travel Mug Destructive Testing

Yes, we beat this travel mug sample with a hammer. Both sides of the hammer. And we hit very, very hard. This destructive testing is vital because "stainless steel" is...

The Invisible Ones

I spent five minutes this morning staring at an Instagram ad for a brand that makes overpriced water bottles. It was a perfect, frictionless video with a pulsing lo-fi beat...

Nomatik 41 Update

The patented ring date on the NOMOS Metro Neomatik 41 Update is a beautiful example in successfully rethinking a standard interface without adding bulk. Instead of the traditional, cramped date...