A JOURNAL BY SHINOLA DEDICATED TO JOY OF CRAFT

Inside the Jeweler’s Studio With Pamela Love

About two and a half years ago, jewelry designer Pamela Love made an offhand remark to her mentor, Karen Harvey, about wanting to partner with a company she believed in—“you know, like Shinola,” she said. Harvey’s response: “Why didn’t you say so?” As it turned out, Harvey knew Shinola’s founder. After a quick call, she […]

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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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Transforming Raw Hide into Premium Leather

It’s 8 a.m. on a Tuesday in Detroit, and 2,500 feet of our signature bourbon leather has just arrived at our facility. Incoming Quality Specialist Damond Love and his counterpart Chris Maxwell inspect the hides personally under a lightbox custom-made for Shinola. They match each hide against the master color swatch, measure it, then check […]

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In The Studio With Eric Yelsma Of Detroit Denim Co.

Manufacturing American selvedge jeans from the Motor City isn’t an easy task, but then again, nothing worth doing is. Detroit Denim Co.is a design studio and shop located on the second floor of Detroit’s Ponyride, a 30,000 square foot warehouse-style collective of artists and entrepreneurs. In addition to the brand’s staple 13 oz. selvedge “Heritage” straight-leg […]

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Signal-Return & The Shinola Bike Tour

There’s something supremely satisfying about a letterpress shop—opening the drawers of lead type, applying ink to the press, manually cranking the paper—the whole deal is just so tactile and hands-on. Right up our alley.  Which is probably why we jumped at the chance to collaborate with Signal-Return here in Detroit on a letterpress poster to support our […]

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A Visit To Great Lakes Woodworking

We were prepared to scour the country to find a woodworking company able to build custom-designed displays for our watches, leather goods, journals, and bicycles. Turns out we didn’t have to search any farther than our own backyard. Great Lakes Woodworking has been a Detroit fixture for three decades. What started in the garage of co-founder […]

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Welcome To Detroit

Detroit is a passionate city, and the community-minded folks here are living examples of what’s possible when industrial ingenuity meets old-fashioned grit and determination. That spirit is what drew us to Detroit in the first place, and it’s why we’re such fierce proponents of this city. But we feel the only way to truly understand […]

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