April 2012
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Invest!
This 1918 lithograph promoted WWI war bonds. In 2012 we’re hoping you’ll invest in the fight for domestic manufacturing.
We’ve found some weird stuff in our new space. The old tenant was an antique collector, and we keep stumbling across things left behind in the move—an 1879 edition of Crofutt’s New Overland Tourist Guide, some vintage horse tack that probably saw use on the Oregon Trail, and...
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Big in Japan
A Toyota made in Indiana is good for America.
Today Scott, John and I were interviewed by Brain, a Tokyo-based creative magazine. It’s hard to miss the irony of an agency dedicated to American manufacturing being approached by an Asian publication, and we had to laugh at the idea of Made blowing up in Japan. But soon after the interview began, the reporter asked us an interesting question:...
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Do the right thing. Buy something staggeringly...
This extremely cool Gitman Brothers oxford shirt is easily rationalized as something that’s good for the whole country. Do the right thing and buy one at UnionMadeGoods.com immediately.
There is a time for rationalizing. And that time is all the time. At least, where retail is concerned. Because if you can even loosely associate what you’re buying with something that’s fundamentally good,...
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America is more than Americana
Ford built the Made company car, a ’65 Econoline, the same year its Philco subsidiary outfitted NASA Mission Control.
The phrase “American Made” conjures up some pretty great imagery. Brats browning-up on a Weber. Well-worn Red Wings. A trusty Snap-On socket set. All of those products have a hallowed place in the annals of American manufacturing, and it’s cool that the brands who make them have...
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Walking tour of Made headquarters
At the moment, a stroll through Made corporate headquarters is strikingly similar to a stroll through Amante Coffee, on Broadway and Yarmouth in Boulder. We thought about trying to pass ourselves off as a well-established firm located in a cool old building with wood floors reclaimed from a Royal Navy frigate sunk off the coast of Virginia during the war of 1812. Then we realized it would be...
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Making Made
That’s Prindle on the left, Schiff in the middle, and Kieselhorst on the right. Thanks to Amante Coffee in Boulder for putting up with us.
It all starts with a power strip. If you’re founding a company, or launching a non-profit organization, or otherwise exercising your right of free assembly in some way that requires digital manifestation, all you really need is a power strip. With this one...
