November 29, 2008 – 5:26 pm
Here’s another scanned catalog – Catalog 18 from 1990. This catalog featured the muddy black and white pictures and awesome writing our customers had come to expect. Also included was a statement of purpose that is as true now as it was then. Except for the part about robots, we now welcome our robot overlords.
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November 28, 2008 – 10:48 am
Our own Mr. Bacon has agreed to answer questions from readers of this blog. He not only has a lifetime’s worth of experiences and wisdom to pass along, but also the unique perspective that comes from being made of bacon. If you would like to ask Mr. Bacon a question email it to us and [...]
November 25, 2008 – 4:07 pm
Our owner Mark, discusses his book about the history of our company on NPR with Jeremy Richards!
Click here to listen, Mark starts about 12 minutes in.
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November 25, 2008 – 1:13 pm
We put out our first board game this year, the Crazy Cat Lady Game. This shot shows our four fabulous models posing as crazy cat ladies. You may recognize them if you have ever been to our Seattle store.
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November 24, 2008 – 9:33 am
When we were looking for a model for our Marketing Guru Action Figure, one name came up again and again: Seth Godin. In addition to his career as a world famous marketer and founder of websites, Seth also writes an extremely popular blog. He preaches the end of marketers as media buyers and instead pushes [...]
November 22, 2008 – 3:12 pm
We have a huge museum of novelty items here at Archie McPhee headquarters and we occasionally go through them to look for new ideas. One feature of One common feature of traditional novelty packages from Japan is to draw a picture illustrating how the product is intended to be used. This gets around having [...]
November 21, 2008 – 6:21 pm
Our own Mr. Bacon has agreed to answer questions from readers of this blog. He not only has a lifetime’s worth of experiences and wisdom to pass along, but also the unique perspective that comes from being made of bacon. If you would like to ask Mr. Bacon a question email it to us and [...]
November 21, 2008 – 3:16 pm
Hello, I’m Mark, I own Archie McPhee and I wanted to use this blog to share some of my views and recommend books I like. If you are here just for the crazy, fun stuff you can just skip my rants. Of course, your life would be diminished because of it, it’s your choice.
One issue [...]
November 20, 2008 – 2:07 pm
Our new book, Who Would Buy This? The Archie McPhee Story, is here right now and ready to purchase. If you buy it from us, you’ll get $5 off the $24.95 cover price!
It’s chock full of beautiful color pictures and the stories behind some of our most famous products. The long term fan will find [...]
November 19, 2008 – 2:33 pm
Since its introduction in 2003, the Librarian Action Figure has been one of our most popular items. After an initial backlash against it because some librarians thought it promoted negative stereotypes, it has become a symbol of exactly how cool librarians actually are.
The model for the action figure, Nancy Pearl, agreed to let us ask [...]
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