Tiny house dweller Whitney Leigh Morris lives in a Craftsman-style 362 square-foot home along the Venice Beach Canals and knows the city like the back of her hand. To help us get acquainted with our new neighborhood, we asked Whitney to show us around. #Lovemycity Check out the dreamy scenes she captured below and don’t […]
PORTLAND ON VINYL: A CONVERSATION WITH AMY DRAGON
Why is vinyl all the rage again? We ask this question and more at our National Record Store Day event happening this Saturday. Panelist Amy Dragon, manager at Cascade Record Pressing — Portland’s first vinyl plant — explains why below. [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_original”,”fid”:”1788″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”540″,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”960″}}]] Stacks of vinyl inside Cascade Record Pressing. Why do you think vinyl is […]
MEET OUR LEATHER DESIGN DIRECTORS JOHN TRUEX AND RICHARD LAMBERTSON
This season we’re showcasing our new leather collection by introducing you to Shinola’s co-Design Directors of leather, John Truex and Richard Lambertson. Truex and Lambertson launched their first line of women’s luxury handbags in 1998. Two decades and several collections later, the duo now call Shinola home. John and Richard are based in New York and make […]
Meet the Designer Behind The Canfield
Meet Greg Verras, a watch designer whose idea led the watch team to build our newest watch, The Canfield. Greg has been with us for three years now and sits facing the watch factory where he’s inspired by the people who assemble the products he and the watch team design every day. Read his story, […]
Since Day One: Meet Our First Detroit Employee
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Warstic + Shinola: The Story Behind Our Maple Wood Baseball Bats
Warstic Wood Bat Co was founded by former minor league baseball player Ben Jenkins, and for the past two years Warstic and Shinola have collaborated to make beautiful, yet fully functional maple wood baseball bats. Just in time for Detroit’s Opening Day, we sat down with Ben to learn more about why he started his […]
Get Inspired: Four Tips To Get you Drawing Again
Brooklyn-based illustrator Libby VanderPloeg joins us April 6 in our Tribeca store for a Sip & Sketch event — an event we’re launching at several stores this year where local artists will lead fun workshops to teach you how to create your very own illustrations in our sketchbooks. With clients like Wall Street Journal, Condé […]
Inside The Canfield: How This Watch is Built
The Canfield is a watch unlike any other we’ve built before. With a stunning open viewing area that showcases more of the dial area than any of our previous watches, this look represents a new era of imagination and industry in Detroit. For this collection, our teams were trained in a top loading process entirely new to […]
Exploring San Fran with Wildsam
What better way is there to reenergize your soul than by exploring a new city or place you’ve never been before? San Francisco is one of our favorite cities and with the help of our friends at Wildsam, we created a custom map that highlights all the places we’d recommend to you. View the Eat […]
Cheers to you: Where to meet for drinks in SF
If you’re looking for adventure, but also want to quench your thirst, look no further. We’ve curated this short and sweet list of the best places to grab a drink in San Francisco with our friends at Wildsam. Be sure to catch the entire tour by downloading our custom map and viewing the photos local photographer […]