Manual

Name: Manual
Address: 4432 N Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60625, US
Telephone: +13128700799

Manual designs products for slow living. Founded by designer Craighton Berman.

08/03/2026

Out of office until August 14 👋

08/02/2026

Semi-Manual System pre-order updates!
1️⃣ Corks are here, Hario drippers are here, bracket restock will be here early next week
2️⃣ “Dripper Stack” pre-orders will start shipping around August 15
3️⃣ The glass carafe is en route from the manufacturer and is supposed to arrive early September
4️⃣ Pre-order pricing will increase to standard pricing once I am fully in-stock and I get through the hundreds of preorders—order soon if you want to lock in that discount.
🆒 Thanks for your patience and thanks for supporting a very small business. I can’t wait to get these in your homes and get you brewing coffee.

07/31/2026

I just picked up the keys for a space inside Workshop 4200 - Chicago’s Creator Space® !! The studio will be just off the public lobby coffee shop by Factotum Coffee — and home of all kinds of interesting creative biz like our pals at Spirit Tea and long time small biz inspo like TATINE and Letherbee and Smashed Plastic Record Pressing and chicagosignsystems and itty bitty mini (m)art … see ya in the fall for a housewarming. 👋

07/14/2026

Walked into the Rizzoli New York in NYC yesterday, strolled back to the design section, picked up this lil design primer by sung and Mthaler and flipped to see one of the kindest things anyone has ever written about my work.

07/12/2026

🐌 ✉️ 👀

07/05/2026

Bookmarks from the latest Snail Mail Club: thoughts on reading, working, handwriting and friction. Small thoughts to read while you read bigger thoughts.

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06/25/2026

At home with Timepiece N°7

06/21/2026

Slow down

06/20/2026

SNAPSHOTS: Ice brew coffee in the carafe sample

Adhocism, 1972

Adhocism, 2026

The al pastor trompa at No Pasa Nada, Chicago

v rare specimen

Semi-Manual brackets for the Moccamaster, pre-powder coat

Studio stool

Lines and waves

Things that fit inside things for making coffee on the go

Stairwell at Dock 6 Collective

Vertical garden

Mobile goal posts

Glass block storefront home

06/14/2026

This week on the workbench: Timepiece N°7 assembly.

Laser cut and bent steel and aluminum parts, powder coated locally. Laser cut cork gaskets and pads made in the studio. Chicago posts hold it all together—used for the utility but also for the name. Hand assembled one at a “time”.

Address

4432 N Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL
60625

Telephone

+13128700799

Website

http://www.manual.is/

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