Welcome to 「HEAVY」

Our popular Recommended Short Trips Guide & Chinatown Supplement have both been updated as of June 2024 to reflect what's hot in the areas and neighborhoods surrounding our shop. As...

Starting this November, our Recommended Short Trips universe expands to include new spots to grab a bite, people watch, and shop that are within walking distance from Omoi.

Volume 2 of our shop zine is now live, covering Autumn Equinox inspiration to get you through the season, from our Fall Back to School Special to a 2024 Planner Sampler. 

Drumroll please... The latest installment of Omoi's print newsletter, HEAVY, is now available at the shop. Hooray! Inside you'll find reflections and snapshots from recent times at the shop. Goes great...

What a fabulous time we had at the TRAVELER'S DINER event! Reminiscent of our Short Trip Weekend back in October of 2021, the TRAVELER'S DINER event was a four day...

We at Omoi are happy to present HEAVY vol. 0 ! A print newsletter that plays off the multiple meanings inherent in our name by reflecting and collecting the times...

Over the years Omoi staffers have collected everything from stacks of notebooks to several generations of Fog Linen tea towels. As the weather shifts and the planets continue their celestial...

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐔𝐬. It's the official shop birthday of our original Rittenhouse location at 1608 Pine Street, opened on this day in 2006. Today we're taking a moment to...

Beautiful sunny weather for exploring the city. Leisurely conversations with friends of the shop. The excitement of new stationery. The creative spirit stoked by simple exchanges of pen and paper....

A public service announcement to please refrain from asking our Asian staff questions that you would not also ask other staff.

Part 3 of a Brief History covers ghosts, fire, and all the challenges of the last five years and the possibility to come.

We return with Part 2 of our Brief History of Omoi. By 2012, Philadelphia indie retail seemed to be reassembling itself post-recession. Instagram was on the rise, small business e-commerce...

As we prepare to move our original store into our larger sister store in Old City, we take this opportunity to wax poetic about was it like when Omoi first...

We've very excited to get our many ducks in a row, and start making our Old City location a cozy haven for stationery fiends, cat people, and Baggu fanatics of...

The angle of the sun has been gradually shifting, and its warmth is now joined by the cool breezes of approaching autumn. Take a September shop tour with us.

The weekend before Christmas is near, and we're ready at both shops for all our last minute gifters. We hope this entices you to come out and visit.

Enjoy this little tour of our Old City location in the days before the kickoff holiday sales. 

Just a few days after Valentine's Day of this year, a four-alarm fire broke out on the corner of 3rd and Chestnut, engulfing multiple buildings in flame and displacing residents and...

Greetings from Philadelphia! Take a tour of our Rittenhouse location as we step into June.

The birds are chirping. The plum blossoms are out. The flower bulbs are breaking earth. There's no doubt about it. Spring is arriving. Here at the shop, the shelves are...

When the trees are in bloom, it's truly, officially spring. THANK. GOODNESS. We thought it might never come! Sitting in the shop with all our bright merchandise under chilly overcast...

Catching our breath from our best holiday season ever, we offer some quiet stills from around our cozy spot.

It's the end of the month and we're back again with a peek inside our Philly storefront, where all the magic happens. There aren't even any elves working here. We...

In the lull between Back to School season and what every good shopkeeper refers to as "The Holidays", we've been busy receiving new shipments, battling small mountains of brown boxes...

Enjoy a small peek at the shop here at the very beginning of September. If you come in now, you’ll find us swamped under boxes of our first round of fall...