Choco-WHA?
Since most of my day is spent on a computer making websites, I sometimes miss the hands-on action of physically making something…and then I came across this beautiful website that manages to combine both. The guys … Continued
Collaborating with a leader in home design to rejuvenate its web presence: Umbra
What can you say about Umbra’s globally recognizable design of home products that hasn’t been said? Let’s just put it this way, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City has an Umbra trash … Continued
HOW Design Live 2011
In honor of How Design Conference event coming up this weekend, I made a poster! How Design Conference is a gathering of thousands of designers talking about and getting inspired by design. This year it’s … Continued
Dig on these…
…fancy new doejo pens! Thanks Gina Sanderson at Go Promotions for the Bic Clic swag!
Building an intelligent purchasing platform and sale predictor: SaleHunch
We can’t all be extreme couponers let alone remember when our favorite stores are having those deep discount biannual sale “events.” With SaleHunch, a new shopping companion site we recently developed, you won’t have to. … Continued
Hazards Of Being A Web Designer
At Doejo we spend lots of time with our hands on keyboards, tablets or mices and coffees and our eyes glued to screens. No one really thinks of the hazards of the workplace at … Continued
A look at in-house illustrator Homeless Cop’s work with Adult Swim
We’ve got quite the talented artist/ illustrator in our midst here at Doejo. It’s hard to pinpoint when Homeless Cop (AKA Jason Fennell) first caught our eye but his work started to snowball into numerous … Continued
Giving 3 Chicago restaurants an online presence: Lotties, The Pony and Frontier
Chicago is stacked with the finest gastropubs and neighborhood bars, but sometimes its patrons become fickle. When you own and operate a restaurant in this city — or in Pioneer Tavern Groups’ case, three restaurants … Continued
What are you working on?
Time for another roundup of what we’re up to at doejo… I think this is going to become tradition. This week Rachel is putting together a new site for our friends at Soupbox, Marko is … Continued
fresh apple jam
One of my favorite things about getting a new apple computer is the intro jam. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdRNbjN1U8]
Typekit + WordPress
So you’ve been able to add Typekit fonts to your WordPress blog, but today it’s got a whole lot easier! Typekit is now integrated with WordPress. Starting today, a new Custom Design upgrade provides a visual … Continued
A platform of online voting for the Chicago Reader‚ Best of Chicago
Has it been a year already? Around this time last year we had finished the Chicago Reader’s infamous “Best of Chicago” voting system online. Our developers at Doejo were more than up to the task. … Continued
Face Time with Doejo!
Yes there are faces to the wonderful world of doejo and with modern technology we can capture what we are doing at this very second. We’re really attractive too. Check them out below, ha.
Peace & Quiet, Think & Try It….
Last week I had the honor of being invited to participate in an art retreat in northern Michigan called MAKE EFFECT. It is a unique three and a half day workshop where professionals from all … Continued
HTML-, CSS- time-savers
Silence is golden, time is money.. An average human brain weighs about 3 lb, has a volume of around 1130 cubic centimeters. At the age of 20, a typical human has around 176,000 km (149,000 km for females) … Continued
Solutions for Implementing User-Friendly Multi-select
The problem: a user needs to select multiple items from long list. When confronted with this in a recent project, we searched for the most user-friendly solution. The ‘Default’ An example would be selecting your favorite … Continued
Reinventing the sports recovery drink: Greater > Than
Helping to launch young entrepreneurs with an audacious business plan is only our specialty. Our buddies Mark and Jon Sider from Highland Park, IL. had such an idea for a recovery sports drink called Greater … Continued