Now that I'm at a consumer facing company again, I can spend my days researching websites providing niche and fun services. A few years ago crowdfunding on the web wasn't even an industry term yet. Today there are all kinds of flavors of crowdfunding sites thanks to companies like Kickstarter. Quarterly isn't crowdfunding in the traditional sense but it plays on the notion that people want to support creators by subscribing and receiving goods.
For those in the know, this site may be old news but I feel like a kid in a candy store. In a time when social media makes direct communication with any influencer possible, here's a site that plays into the value of tangible interactions. Quarterly is a subscription service that lets you receive - that's right, quarterly packages - in the mail. You can subscribe to people you find interesting
and, once every three months, they'll send a package right to your
doorstep. Unique, limited subscriptions and full of surprises.
There's someone for everyone in their curated list of contributors. Who do you want to receive a package from? Here's my list:
Poketo (The husband-and-wife team of Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung bring art and design to every day goods)
Cool Hunting (The online destination for all things cool. Delivering items of form and function to your doorstep)
Sean Bonner (An entrepreneur, journalist and activist. Also a reformed collector turned minimalist object fetishist)
Wander (Because Keenan Cummings and Jeremy Fisher like people that go places)
Uprise Art (Makes art collecting for the rest of us possible. Mailings include one-of-a-kind artwork plus tools to make your own)
