Here in 2 flavors.

A bundle of CW&T items packed in a custom bento-style box. When disassembled, the individual compartments double as stackable desk/drawer organizers.

Orders open now until Tuesday December 9th in limited quantities.

Start Creating Gift Box

Titanium Lovers Gift Box

We won't sell more of these than we can make. We've prepped in advance, and we will ship these orders out by Tuesday December 16th.

The Start Creating Gift Box includes a Titanium Pen Type-C, your choice of Studio Sketchbook, Adhesive retro-reflective repair patches, Open Letters [collectible patent cards], 1P light and an adhesive orange patch.

Perfect for that curious someone who loves creating, and feels inspired when quality tools are close at hand.

Start Creating Gift Box

The Titanium Lovers Gift Box includes Pen Type-C, Herring Blade, and Key Wrangler along with adhesive retro-reflective repair patches and 1P light.

For the creative who super nerds out over high quality, useful tools.

Titanium Lovers Gift Box

A read-through.

On Monday afternoon a friend invited me to a read-through of a play. I know little about what goes into making theatre, and I'm curious about creative processes so I jumped at the opportunity to go.

When I arrived I learned the playwright had just come off a few months of re-writing based on feedback from an earlier workshop. The play is set to open this spring. This was the first time the actors had seen the new material. And for the playwright sitting in the front row, it was first time she was hearing her new words aloud. (Kind of a big deal! I imagine.)

This took place in a room, not a theatre. I sat on one of the folding chairs arranged for an audience of around 20, maybe 25 others, many furiously taking notes, because that's their job. At the front of the room, the actors were seated at a long U-shaped table. Aside from scripts, distributed across the table were cups filled with pencils, pens and colored highlighters, bottles of fancy seeming hand sanitizer, and each actor's own water vessel. One actor had a massive bottle of smart water. I could see how much she drank and couldn't help thinking how badly she must have to pee.

Watching a play like that puts you up close with the craft in a way that has kept me thinking all week. There's no mis-en-scene to distract or enhance. It's just the actors, and their attempt to embody whatever transformation the playwright had written out in her script. In this moment, some of these lines are new to the actors, so they are acting, but at the same time discovering. Witnessing the looseness of those discoveries, which could at times be small breaks in character, seemed welcome. For me at least, this all felt very new and fascinating, especially the minutia. Especially thinking about the playwright, and what she must be thinking. For 2.5 hours I paid such close attention for this rare experience as an outsider to get to see a creative work come to life.