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The Case for Leather: Why Q4 Corporate Gifting Deserves More Than a Branded Water Bottle

Q4 sneaks up fast. One minute you're wrapping up summer event season, and the next you're staring down a corporate gifting deadline with a list of clients, partners, and team...

A gift that keeps on giving - thats why they call it a love language.

You can tell a lot about a company, and their team, by what they decide to give as a gift. Typically it's a stress ball, a branded grocery tote, a...

Leather in the Heat

I couldn't help but wonder. When it's ninety four degrees in Charlotte and the sidewalk feels personally offended by your existence, what happens to the bag on your shoulder? Here's...

What to Pack When You're Packing for Everything: A College Send-Off Reading List (for Your Bag)

There's a particular kind of nervous-excited that comes with the weeks before college move-in. You're folding shirts you've never worn into a new closet, learning the name of a roommate...

From a Backyard Shed to the Hands of Hollywood: The ColsenKeane Story

There's a version of this story that sounds too good to be true. A guy in Charlotte, North Carolina, starts cutting leather in a backyard shed. Fourteen years later, a...

We Made Our Own Journals. Here's Why.

We Made Our Own Journals. Here's Why. For a while now, we have been pairing our handcrafted leather notebooks with Moleskine & Field notes inserts. It made sense at the...

Built for the Coca-Cola 600

Every year, Charlotte hosts one of NASCAR's most legendary races. This year, we got to be a small part of it. We produced a custom run of full-grain leather keychains...

When You've Seen It All, Here's What Still Surprises People

There's a certain look that happens when you've been an event planner for more than a few years. Someone pitches you a "unique" corporate gift and your eyes start doing...