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Chicago Spotlight: Flowers For Dreams

Chicago-based startup Flowers For Dreams started when a couple of high school friends began selling flowers at graduation ceremonies in 2010. In 2012, the company expanded its purpose. For every bouquet sold, they donated a backpack with a year’s worth of school supplies to a Chicago Public Schools student in need. Today, Flowers For Dreams is […]

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Pamela Love’s Picks

Brooklyn-based jewelry designer Pamela Love co-designed Shinola’s Jewelry Collection, adding femininity to our growing range of thoughtful accesories. She’s a natural when it comes to styling modern looks that capture the classic nature of our women’s line. So, in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we sat down to find out what Pam’s favorite Shinola items […]

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#MakeItPersonal with LA Interior Designer Cristina Ramirez

Our #MakeItPersonal campaign showcases the Shinola products you can customize with a monogram or engraving. Personalize items from our jewelry collection designed with Pamela Love, American-made journals, and select premium leather goods — the choice is yours. Tag your photos with #MakeItPersonal on Twitter or Instagram and we’ll share our favorites.  Cristina Ramirez is a Los Angeles-based […]

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Gift Giving with Fox Fodder Farm

What do you love most about your significant other? We asked one of our favorite Brooklyn couples that very question —Taylor Patterson, the florist behind Fox Fodder Farm, and Sam Anderson, the beverage director at Mission Chinese Food. Sam recently surprised Taylor with some pieces from the Shinola Jewelry Valentine’s Day Collection. View some of […]

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Men’s Lookbook with The Everyday Man

Glasgow is the biggest city in Scotland and one of the most up-and-coming places to live and visit in Europe. Our watches and leather goods can now be found here inside Glasgow’s popular 18Montrose shop, in addition to our London store. We asked lifestyle blogger John Robertson from The Everyday Man to style a few of his favorite products for his […]

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#TravelWithShinola to Iceland

#TravelWithShinola is our newest adventure in following our watches and leather goods in action. To kickstart things off, we had Detroit-based photographer Hayden Stinebaugh pick his favorite Shinola products from our Men’s Holiday Gift Guide to take on his trip to Iceland. His advice when planning your next adventure: think big and pack the essentials.  […]

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Meet the Maker: Byrne Electrical Specialists

The partnership between Shinola and GE is monumental, not only for our Detroit factories but also for other small American manufacturers across the country. When we set out to make premium power cords, production was kept close to home by working with Western Michigan-based Byrne Electrical Specialists, Inc. Byrne shares the same goal as Shinola — to create […]

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Introducing Shinola + GE

We are passionate tinkerers. It’s in our genes. Imagining and inventing ways to make a good idea more useful, more powerful and more beautiful, right here in America, is the spirit in which Shinola was founded, and the motivation behind our collaboration with General Electric. For over a century, GE has been synonymous with quality […]

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Luke Wilson’s 360 factory Tour: Behind the Scenes

What happens inside our Detroit headquarters? Take a tour of our factory through the lens of co-directors Luke and Andrew Wilson. Catch behind the scenes footage of how the film was created, below. [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_original”,”fid”:”2541″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”540″,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”960″}}]] Andrew Wilson (pictured above) directing. This was your first time visiting the factory. What were some of the things you found […]

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