How it Works
Quarterly Co.™ is a subscription service that enables people to receive physical items in the mail from influential contributors of their choice. Let’s get started!
Pick your contributor:
Cool Hunting Josh Rubin & Evan Orensten
Cool Hunting is synonymous with seeking inspiration. Josh and Evan look at design as an exercise in problem solving. Their mailings will be based on clever combinations of form and function.
Food & Home Curated by Quarterly
The Quarterly team is constantly getting kitchen and domestic inspiration from contributors like Food52 and Veronica Belmont. Now it’s our turn to send some of our can’t-miss, must-have picks for the homefront.
Food52 Amanda Hesser & Merrill Stubbs
Amanda and Merrill worked together on the bestselling The Essential New York Times Cookbook and run FOOD52, the first crowd-curated food community. They’ll send you packages filled with nifty items for your kitchen and table.
House of Harvey Dogs and Design
Stephanie Todaro writes about great design for dogs and humans on her hit blog, House of Harvey. With help from her pup, Mr. Harvey, she’ll be sending eco-friendly products for both species.
Laughing Squid Art, Culture & Technology
The Laughing Squid blog is a Webby-winning resource for great art, culture, and tech. Scott Beale and Rusty Blazenhoff curate mailings that are beautifully offbeat or wonderfully quirky.
No More Dirty Looks Siobhan O'Connor & Alexandra Spunt
Siobhan and Alexandra spotlight the best clean products, reawakening a tradition of self-care and showing that organic ingredients are all you need.
Poketo Ted Vadakan & Angie Myung
Built on the idea of “Art For Your Everyday,” Poketo curates a collection of design objects and unique everyday goods. Mailings feature modern wares that are colorful, whimsical—and functional.
Stanford d.School Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
The d.school is a place where students teach, teachers learn, and doers always feel at home. Each mailing will be a carefully designed creative experience set up for you to do something.
Style Girlfriend Megan Collins
Blogging as the Style Girlfriend, Megan Collins offers a stylish woman’s guide to menswear. With Quarterly, her tips become tangible: She’ll mail some of her top picks to help guys take their personal style to the next level.
Technology & Toys Curated by Quarterly
Here at Quarterly, we love to geek out over a great gadget. And we couldn’t let Scott Belsky and Sean Bonner have all the fun. With #QTT, you’ll get our personal favorite tech and toys.
Travel & Adventure Curated by Quarterly
The Quarterly team is full of adventurous spirits with serious cases of wanderlust. With #QTA, we’ll be sending you on journeys of all kinds, and packing up our favorite tools and gadgets for the trip.
True Ventures Early-Stage Venture Capital
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, including Blue Bottle, Fitbit, and many more. Their mailings will include tips and tools for budding entrepreneurs.
Unclutterer Home & Office Organizing
Unclutterer is inspired when there is a place for everything and everything is in its place. Their mailings contain useful and aesthetically pleasing organizing and productivity solutions.
Uprise Art Tze Chun, Founder
Uprise is an art gallery for the next generation of collectors. Each mailing includes an original framed artwork—plus tools to make your own.
Wander Keenan Cummings & Jeremy Fisher
Wander will be sending unique travel items for people who are going places. Expect a set of superlative products that will help you find yourself in the world.
Veronica Belmont Tekzilla, The Sword and Laser
Veronica is a technology and gaming-centric video host based in San Francisco. She’s discovered a love of all the delicious and creative food options in SF, and from coffee to chocolates, she’ll share her favorite local flavors.
Scott Belsky Behance
Scott Belsky is obsessed with organization and the clash between creativity and structure. His mailings aim to provide a nicely packaged source of both productivity and fascination.
Sean Bonner Misanthropologist
Sean is an entrepreneur, journalist, activist and enthusiast. His mailings feature obsessively designed items that are the best at what they do.
Liz Danzico Bobulate
A celebrator of anniversaries of everything, Liz is in search of time. Whether you consider time a science, a flow, or a tool for the future, these objects will be artifacts for the history of a future.
Timothy Ferriss Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
Timothy Ferriss wrote the #1 national bestseller The 4-Hour Chef. The theme of his Quarterly mailings will be obsession—the ideas and objects he can’t get out of his head.
Joshua Foer Writer
Joshua is a science journalist and the author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. He’ll send you machines for experimental living.
Mark Frauenfelder Boing Boing, MAKE
Mark Frauenfelder is the founding editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine, and the founder of Boing Boing. His mailings celebrate Fantastic Plastic—small plastic gadgets that do something surprising.
Chris Guillebeau The Art of Non-Conformity
Chris is a writer, entrepreneur, and traveler. Founder of the blog The Art of Non-Conformity, Chris visited every country in the world from 2002 to 2013. His Quarterly theme is “quest.”
Christopher Jobson Colossal
Christopher is the creator and editor of Colossal, a blog sharing design and other forms of visual ingenuity. His mailings feature limited-edition art, fun objects for your workplace, and things made by hand.
Joel Johnson Near Futurist
Joel is an editorial refurbisher. His Quarterly is guided by the (figurative) spirit of his grandma, Vivian. He’ll be exploring the life she lived, passing on things that remind him of her and make you feel comforted and inspired.
Jesse Kornbluth Head Butler
A journalist and author, Jesse runs HeadButler.com, a cultural concierge site “for people with more taste than time.” He sends overlooked gems in film, music, and literature.
Jason Kottke Kottke.org
Jason Kottke is a blogger and developer living in NYC. As editor of kottke.org, he scours the web for juicy links and reads. He’ll be sending you things that you didn’t know you wanted to see until you saw them.
Mike Monteiro Mule Design
Mike loves telling stories. Mostly about the awkward moments we’d rather forget about. Every shipment from Mike will contain an uplifting story about someone else’s pain.
Maud Newton Writer
Maud Newton is an author, book blogger, and contributor to the Times Magazine and many other publications. Her mailings will spotlight books and great storytelling—the kind that makes you miss your subway stop.
Alexis Ohanian Reddit, Breadpig, Hipmunk
Alexis Ohanian is a startup founder in Brooklyn. He started reddit and breadpig, and helped launch hipmunk. He’ll send you surprises from along his journey: products he’s created, geeky novelties, and tasty things.
Tina Roth Eisenberg Swissmiss Studio
Tina Roth Eisenberg is a Swiss designer gone NYC with a love of clean and functional design. Her mailings all feature items that she would happily showcase in her minimalist workspace.
Gretchen Rubin The Happiness Project
Gretchen is the author of The Happiness Project. Her shipments will include things that lift your spirits by making your life and home more beautiful, more productive, and more full of fun.
Felix Salmon Finance Blogger, Reuters
Felix Salmon is the finance blogger for Reuters. He’ll be finding people who can reconceptualize his favorite ideas and virtual detours—all the weird and glorious crannies he gets lost in—as physical items with real value.
Pharrell Williams Musician/Entrepreneur
Best known for his work with the Neptunes and N.E.R.D., Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion and design to express his distinctive style. The theme of his mailings is curiosity.
Jeffrey Zeldman Happy Cog
Dubbed King of Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman publishes A List Apart and is chairman of design studio Happy Cog. He sends stimulating designs in elegantly small packages.