We’ve posted a poll in the Forums asking you which paper you’d use with your Field Journal Notebook (a new, soon-to-debut notebook design by Tom) – lined, unlined, graph, and/or other. You can vote in the poll if you are a forum member. If you are not a forum member, send your vote to customerservice@tombihn.com or @tombihn on Twitter.
“A few years ago, I was lucky enough to be part of the naming party for Tom Bihn’s new knitting bag, The Swift, and loved the bag so much, I wrote a review of it.
Tom Bihn has recently introduced The Swift’s little sibling: The Little Swift. I’ve been in possession of a Little Swift for about 2 weeks now, and it was love at first sight.”
Read the entire review – complete with lots of photos – at indigodragonfly’s blog.
Our Seattle Factory Showroom/Retail Store will be open Saturday, June 19th, from 12:00pm – 4:00pm. See you there! Note that starting in July, we will go back to being open only on the first Saturday of each month.
Camera Insert
Tom’s brother Dan – a professional photographer who you may remember created this video about our Seattle factory – has been on assignment testing the Camera Insert. Tom and Dan have made an already cool camera bag even better. Most of the materials have arrived and they’re great, too – what’s left is finalizing the new design features that Tom has added. We hope to make the Camera Insert available for pre-order in August or September.
The Field Journal Notebook is on its way. You can be certain that it is coming soon. What’s the hold up? Tom uses his Field Journal Notebook prototype every day and wants it to be absolutely perfect. This means sending the prototype to our sewing machine sales reps and investigating whether a new sewing machine would help the fabric lay even better for a flawless finish – that’s what we mean by absolutely perfect. We hope to make the Field Journal Notebook available for pre-order by mid-July.
The Parental Unit has been delayed by one of the specialty components – we will keep you updated on its progress.
Remember the “Kennedy Center” travel bag? That’s the new Western Flyer – the version with the rolling luggage handle pocket.
Coming later this year/early next year: a gym bag, a garment bag, and more types of Organizer Pouches.
Now shipping within one business day:
Size iPad Cache in both Horizontal and Vertical formats.
The Empire Builder briefcase, all colors.
Size 4Z Horizontal Brain Cell in Black, Steel, Wasabi.
Brain Bag in Steel. (Colors Navy and Black are still on backorder but should ship next week.)
Coming soon: Little Swift, Size 1 Horizontal Brain Cell.
Our Seattle Factory Showroom/Retail Store is open today, June 16th, from 12:00pm – 4:00pm. See you there! (We’ll next be open on Saturday, June 19th.)
The Swift and the Clear Quarter Packing Cube are now in-stock and shipping within one business day in all color combinations.
Early this year, we began working with our UPS representative Chris Moore to implement the UPS Carbon Neutral Shipping Program.
The program allows us to tread a little more lightly on the Earth.
Through the program we will purchase carbon credits to offset 100% of the carbon created by our UPS shipping. We will become one of the first UPS clients in the Pacific Northwest to utilize this new Program.
The carbon credits or offsets are aimed at funding projects such as wastewater treatment, methane destruction and landfill gas destruction.
UPS to used its proprietary calculation system to figure out how much carbon is put out by the shipping of TOM BIHN orders via all UPS services. This process is verified by Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), an inspection, testing and verification company.
You, our customers, will notice that boxes and packages you receive from us that are shipped via UPS feature a Carbon Neutral sticker, designed to inform – and assure you – of our participation in this program. Other than that, your experience with us will be as usual – we don’t charge you for the carbon offset. It’s on us.
For us, offsetting the carbon footprint for our UPS shipping was a
no-brainer: whenever and wherever we can make real strides to lessen the impact of our business on the Environment, we do it.
Posted on our Facebook Page by customer N.J.
Daniel Beltra is an award-winning photographer and a longtime TOM BIHN customer. We’ve featured Daniel – with his bags – several times on our blog. Today we wanted to share with you Daniel’s photos of the Gulf Oil Spill. See them on Daniel’s blog and be sure to check out Daniel’s audio slideshow on the Guardian website. Also very interesting is an interview Daniel did with the CBC.
