When I started this website in September 2013, one of the first things I reviewed was smartphone cases. We are way beyond smartphone case reviews; I still do them, but I prefer to do one article on ...

History: John Webber started Carved in 2011 in a small shop behind a Menard’s in Elkhart. Nine years and two locations later, the growing company now makes wood and resin cases for iPhones and Samsung ...

When John Webber purchased his first iPhone 4S case, it was a simple plastic case with a straight-forward goal – to protect one’s phone. But Webber, a local entrepreneur, wanted something better. JAY ...

Bailey Hikawa pours colored resin into a small wooden box, seals it, then places the whole contraption into a pressure pot. The pot teeters on discarded phone case molds, and as Hikawa begins the ...

There’s an influential idea in design that form arises from function — the best-designed items are distilled down to their most fundamental purpose. Imagine a modernist skyscraper, a Bauhaus chair, a ...