Gnomenclature - The Hammacher Schlemmer Newsletter

The Hammacher '70s Diet

A calorie-counting calculator and a meal-slowing fork

Jun 5 • Jason Toon

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May 2026

Our Gnomic Gnamesakes

Once upon a time, two wee little carpenters became advertising icons

May 29 • Jason Toon

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Summer of '76

Flipping through a Hammacher catalogue from 50 years ago

May 22 • Jason Toon

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Hammacher on Broadway

A tongue-in-cheek 1929 showtune pledges undying love for us

May 15 • Jason Toon

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Post-apocalyptic luxury

The Hammacher Schlemmer fallout shelter, 1962

May 8 • Jason Toon

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Our new logo and how it got that way

An interview with designer extraordinaire Louie Mantia about our new wordmark

May 1 • Jason Toon

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April 2026

Roasted by the New Yorker

Three times the magazine's cartoonists aimed their pens at Hammacher Schlemmer

Apr 24 • Jason Toon

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The Beatles and the Nothing Box

Did Hammacher Schlemmer help break up the greatest band of all time?

Apr 17 • Jason Toon

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December 2025