Back in December, Slate’s Farhad Manjoo wrote about apparel company American Giant, who, he said, were undeniably manufacturing the greatest hoodie right here in America. Unfortunately, American Giant was not prepared for the attention. The company slapped up a pre-order page on its blog, promising delivery in a few weeks’ time. Orders kept piling up. [...]
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In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the prestigious technology company will start making some of its computers entirely in the US in 2013. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year. Mac fans will have to [...]
I had a hoodie person. I have been since third grade. It’s pretty much the height of sartorial genius. So, Bayard Winthrop, founder of San Francisco-based American Giant apparel company, you have my attention when Farhad Manjoo says your hoodies are the greatest hoodies ever made. Why are they the greatest? The sweatshirts are made [...]
Bedrock Manufacturing, an upstart company from Detroit, is attempting to reinvent Shinola, one of America’s most famous heritage brands. The brand revival started last year, when Bedrock set out to create a new line of high-end leather accessories. From the start, the venture was not only about the products themselves but where they would be [...]
There is nothing bad about the trend of more jobs in America and selling those products to one of the largest markets in the world.
True story: back when I was writing for the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., I took a call while solo monitoring the newsroom on Saturday morning. It was from Joseph Abboud. The actual Joseph Abboud was calling to drum up publicity for his sister’s singing career. It was sweet and he was very nice because [...]
The gang at Cool Hunting took a trip to Crewe, England, home of a Bentley factory to see how “a mix of old and new technologies comes together,” as Herman puts it, to create one of the finest crafted cars on the road. This is a nice companion to the piece about how Aston Martin’s One-77 supercar [...]
Rob Schmitz, who exposed Mike Daisey’s lies, reports for Marketplace with a behind-the-scenes look at the now-infamous Foxconn iPad assembly line in China. [via daringfireball]
Remarkably, each Aston Martin One-77 Supercar is entirely hand-built: “When Aston set out to build its radical One-77 flagship, it stepped away from its main manufacturing facility and constructed a small structure where it turned the assembly line concept upside down. Rather than move the car along a line as it’s constructed, there are seven [...]
It’s time for a bit of the old “clearing out the tabs” that have been open for way too long. 1. How all nine Best Picture nominees reassure us about the scary future. 2. The US Defense budget is actually twice as much as what gets reported. 3. I’m starting to get ridiculously pumped for Guillermo [...]
