Bibliophiles and fair-weather bookworms alike will enjoy recommendation-driven app BookYap, the brainchild of local entrepreneur Hallie Steube. It’s kind of like Netflix and eHarmony in the way it connects users but instead of movies and … Continued
Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofski can spot a good startup concept a mile away. As two of the founders of Groupon, they decided to start venture fund Lightbank which now employees more than 5000 people … Continued
Start ups often spend too much time and resources over doing it, timing is key. Listen to the Rishi! “Stay focused on where your customers live and selling your product to them.” Rishi
I’m a designer. I eat, sleep and breathe design all day–everyday. I find that I can’t even look at anything without analyzing its design, and thinking about why a designer, or artist, would do something … Continued
I use keyboard shortcuts heavily. There’s one thing that always annoyed me on Mac. To close an application one would hit “Command + Q”. When you in multi-tab application such as browser to close a … Continued
When it comes to creative art direction and branding, nobody does it better than Doejo. Recently, we’ve had the pleasure of partnering with Strobe, a West Coast tech startup from the creator of SproutCore, Charles … Continued
A great before and after story we love to tell comes from Chicago-born webzine, Consequence of Sound. This four-year-old site covers the worldwide music scene while keeping readers in the know on music festival info — … Continued
sneak peak of my poster at the POSTERior exhibition Tonight is the opening reception for “POSTERior”, an international poster competition judged by Chip Kidd, Mig Reyes, Kate Bingaman-Burt, and Scott Bakal as part of AIGA … Continued
Iowa is not all farmers and cornfields…..like many people think….theres soybeans too..and also cows….and a REALLY great music scene….you can stop laughing now.—Being a transplant from Des Moines, I thought I’d rep a Des Moines … Continued
With everyone wrapped up in tailoring a personal web experience for every individual, have we all been lead into information isolationism? See Eli Pariser’s presentation on TED. BONUS – How to avoid the filter bubble … Continued
[vimeo 24580361 w=580 h=326] So Homeless Cop (aka Jason) has been working on an awesome mural for our office behind Phil’s desk and we decided to take a time-lapse of the process. He used … Continued
We don’t always get to share what we’re working on, mostly because we’re busy working 🙂 but at any given point we literally have dozens of projects cruising along. Every project deserves the spotlight, so … Continued
It’s quite steamy out in the elements, can you smell us from where you are sitting? I’m glistening. Doejo wants you to stay your tip top self, so please hydrate and come here to cool … Continued
One awesome thing I discovered recently is Smart Sprites by Stanislaw Osinski. If you don’t know much about html/css, one step in the process is consolidating lots of little images into one big image so that … Continued
One of my favorite things about summer in Chicago (besides my spankin’ new job at Doejo) are the free concerts at Millennium Park as part of the Downtown Sound series. What’s better than a picnic … Continued
Here’s a perfect example of our savvy app-crafting skills: TinyVox. Check it — we created an app that digitally records sound bites, lectures, snippets of you spittin’ rhyme for that country-techno concept album you’re working … Continued
