Bow Truss Holiday Market
With the holidays fast approaching two pop-ups in one weekend just isn’t enough. That’s why Bow Truss Coffee Roasters is bringing you a Holiday Market with over 20 vendors! We have searched high and low … Continued
Twitter Chat with Chicago Ideas Week
If your job involves being creative—which it probably does since you’re reading this blog—you don’t want to miss our upcoming Twitter Chat. Twitter Chats are public conversations held on Twitter that revolve around a single … Continued
9 Tips for growing your company from Entrepreneurs Unpluggd
Entrepreneurs Unpluggd is a speaker series created to share the stories of how entrepreneurs got their start. This month’s event focused on Startup Stages: Launch, Growth and Beyond. Speakers Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals, Liz … Continued
Creative Mornings with Scott Reinhard from the MCA
CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types that Doejo had the pleasure of hosting last month. We had so much fun hosting the event and couldn’t wait to attend Scott Reinhard’s talk last week. … Continued
Tech Cocktail: How to increase diversity in startups
Last week we attended Tech Cocktail’s Chicago mixer where Rishi Shah, founder and CEO of Context Media and Melissa Pierce, the founder of Chicago Woman Developers, shared why they are advocates of diversity in the … Continued
Recap: Designing Differently with Doejo at the Apple Store
On November 14th Phil Tadros, co-founder of Doejo and Kelsey Kreiling, Doejo’s Social Media Director, spoke at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. To kick off the talk Phil spoke about the community building skills … Continued
Doejo Dev Sessions: Google Maps API
After briefly mentioning API’s in our previous Doejo Dev sessions blog post on the value and functionality of JavaScript, we decided to explain how we have used API’s in our projects. This post will focus … Continued
Doejo’s redesign of the Chicago Cultural Plan 2012 Infographic
As a Chicago-based digital agency we thought it would be a fun exercise to redesign the infographic recently released to detail 2012’s Chicago Cultural Plan. The original infographic, seen here and to the right, was put out … Continued
Designing Differently with Doejo at Michigan Ave Apple Store
We are excited to announce that Phil Tadros, co-founder of Doejo and Kelsey Kreiling, Doejo’s Social Media Director, will be speaking at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. on Wednesday, November 14th at 7 p.m. During … Continued
Creative Mornings at Doejo featuring Sara Frisk of IDEO
Last Friday we had the privilege of hosting the Chicago chapter of Creative Mornings. Creative Mornings is a global monthly gathering of creative types founded by Tina Roth Eisenberg. Eisnberg also runs design blog swissmiss … Continued
Tall Tales From a Large Man: Draplin Does Doejo
Last night Bow Truss Coffee Roasters was packed to the rafters in anticipation of Aaron Draplin’s “Tall Tales From a Large Man” talk. Guests sipped on “wet hopped” amber ale from Strange Pelican Brewing Co. and … Continued
Limited Edition Aaron Draplin does Doejo event posters
Aaron Draplin is taking over Bow Truss Coffee Roasters tonight to give his acclaimed “Tall Tales From a Large Man” talk. To celebrate the event Doejo’s design squad created four limited edition screen-printed designs. Each print … Continued
Our favorite co-working spaces: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago
Although we are a Chicago-based design firm, Doejo has employees working out of New York and LA. This geographically dispersed team has one thing in common: they all work out of unique co-working spaces that … Continued
Doejo staffers geek out over first web sites
This week we asked the Doejo staff about their first blog or web development memory. This could be Geocities/Angelfire sites, punk band music forums, or MP3 file sharing sites that got a recording industry cease … Continued
Phil chats with TastyTrade about Doejo and our clients
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWE-Uwee6F4] Our very own Phil Tadros was invited to chat with Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista on “America’s fastest growing financial network” and bootstrapped entrepreneurial web show TastyTrade today. Phil chatted with the fellas … Continued
Team Building: Chicago does Paintball, Doejo Russia does Strike Ball
Back in March our local team hit up the dystopian paint ball grounds of CPX Sports in Joliet (hitting up sites with names like “Armageddon” and the “Wastelands”). There were multiple shades of cammo, multicolored … Continued
Bow Truss a big hit at Renegade Craft Fair
At DIY-indie-craft-fair-marketplace Renegade this weekend, our microroastery Bow Truss was on hand slinging uber-fresh cups of coffee, carefully packaged bags of roasts and imparting the craft behind our diverse lineup. We sold so many bags … Continued
Doejo designs winged Twinkie bling for The Snackpot
Doejo is many things- web agency, branding powerhouse and now winged-Twinkie bling design firm. After working with The Snackpot to develop their iconic new site, which features snack reviews from the likes of Pitchfork’s Ian … Continued