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 ...

Maybe you've seen the ads for Carved while scrolling through social media. Maybe you've even seen one of their works in the wild, wrapped around someone's iPhone or Galaxy. Either way, you remember it ...

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 ...

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 ...