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Epic Black Friday/Cyber Monday Giveaway!

Epic Black Friday/Cyber Monday Giveaway!

This is a hard year to feel badass, so we’re helping you feel epic with our Black Friday/Cyber Monday giveaway! One lucky person each day will rece...

In Search of the Perfect Cloak

It's that blessed time of year again. It's time for a new Assassin's Creed game! And for us that means it's time to re-imagine those assassins in a...

On Designing for The Lord of the Rings

We’ve always reinvented, reimagined, or translated by capturing the spirit of a fandom, genre, or style and distilling down to its core. Often that...

Black Lives Matter

What can I say? I don't think I can ever understand the struggles faced by black and brown people in the US. Not because I don't want to, but becau...

An Update on Mask Donations

Dear Vanguard, I wanted to personally thank you all for your contributions to our donation drive. As the overlord of the inbox, I've been ma...

Reflections on Iga Castle

Japan is one of those places David and I had dreamed about visiting for years. Potent images still come right away to my mind’s eye, carefully la...

Our Mask Making Whirlwind Continues!

This week has been a whirlwind. Cliff Notes edition is, we hired another sewist, brought back some more of our staff, and applied for all the diffe...

Thank you for helping us make masks

What a week it has been. We conceived of the idea to make masks, designed a mask prototype, a second prototype, made a page, decided on how we woul...

This Moment

If we can make hospital gowns, we will post a "donate here" button to help cover some of the costs of them. Maybe we can make a difference. Stay tu...

Take Care of Each Other

Dear Friends, The spread of COVID-19 has forced the hand of several large conventions into canceling or moving their events. We are in support o...

In the holiday spirit

When I was in the 7th grade I found a jacket that made me feel like I might actually grow out of the 7th grade. It was a motorcycle style denim jac...

12 Stylish Gift Ideas for Star Trek Fans

For years it's been possible to buy toys, costumes, and gag gifts as a Star Trek fan, but now there are some seriously high quality Trek products o...

Letter from Japan

We came to Japan to see Tokyo Games show and see if it would ever be a viable market for us. It's quiet. It is really really quiet. There's a gentl...