You heard correctly! Everyone that places a Wood Type Revival t-shirt order at United Pixel Workers will receive a free font of their choice at woodtyperevival.com!
Spread the word – shirts on sale until February 10!
Everyone that places a shirt order before the deadline will receive an email with details on how to get their free font after February 10. Limit 1 free font per customer.
Breaks are important. At Bearded, we’re often tackling several big, complicated problems at a time. And it can be hard to keep your head straight, and clear your cognitive buffer before moving on to a new task.
What you need, in other words, is a mental sorbet, and taking 5 minutes for yourself won’t ever blow a deadline. In fact, it’ll probably make you more productive.
It’s good to have a list of 5-10 minute break activities to help clear out the cobwebs. Here’s the current Bearded list of palette-cleansers:
Golden Eye: That’s right. The 1997 N64 game. You can do up 4 player matches that end after 5 minutes of game play. It’s amazing how much pretending to shoot your co-workers for 5 minutes re-focuses the mind.
Zombieville USA 2: Co-op zombie-splattering mayhem on the iPhone / iPad. The fast-paced cartoony action really takes one’s mind off of work-a-day concerns.
Rainy Mood: A few minutes laying on the couch with Rainy Mood is great when you’re at your wits’ end. Just close your eyes, and relax, my friend. Everything’s going to be OK.
Get The Led Out: Sometimes cranking the stereo and air-instrumenting to an awesome song while high-five-ing your co-workers Top Gun-style does wonders. I’m just saying.
Meme of the Week: Increase designer/developer understanding via meme education, and laugh really hard. Wins all around.
Write a Quick Blog Post: Natch.
-MG
The iPad application we designed and developed for LISC was chosen as a winner in the 14th Annual HOW Interactive Design Awards!
Bearded Is Hiring an Interaction Designer / Front-end Developer
Bearded is a web design and development agency. We’re a small group of web experts focused on inter-disciplinary collaboration as a means to create great websites and applications. Because we’re a small team working on complex projects, our duties frequently overlap, and the ability to work well with others is essential.
Bearded is looking for an experienced Interaction Designer / Front-end Developer / UX Advocate to help us build websites, web applications, and native OSX and iOS applications. Throughout the project process you’ll be collaborating with the other members of Bearded, designers and developers alike. The problems we tackle are often unique and complicated, and require a diverse array of skills and talents working in concert.
Things you should be excited about:
Bonus points if you have experience with:
Like everyone at Bearded, you’ll have your hands in a range of areas related to website and application creation, the flow of which looks something like this:
You will work with the other Beardeds to imagine the end product that will best serve our clients’ needs; working with our other designers and developers to move beyond static designs, creating unique and satisfying user experiences and interactions. You’ll work to strike a balance between delightful interactions and clear, uncluttered user experiences.
Our current workflow generally includes technologies like Ruby on Rails, the CSS3/SASS framework Compass, and jQuery. We’re diving head-first into responsive design, and love mobile devices.
But technologies are ephemeral. We’re always looking for the best new technologies to push our work and process forward, and are constantly evaluating and evolving our approach. We live, eat, and breathe the Internet, and are always excited about finding new stuff to work with. We don’t expect you to be intimately familiar with all of the technologies we currently use, but you should be pretty good at some of them, and psyched to get to learn the rest.
We’re looking for a kindred spirit who loves building the Interwebs, one project at a time. You should be passionate and self-directed, yet be willing to compromise and collaborate with a rock solid team of like-minded people.
We care a lot about our work, but understand that dedication includes taking care of yourself, too. We’re committed to having a work environment that makes it easy to show up for work every day. We allow flexible hours, periodic remote options, and do our best to keep everyone under 40 hours a week. As long as everyone is meeting their milestones, we allow plenty of flexibility. We offer full health coverage, generous vacation days, 401k, and end of year profit sharing.
If this sounds like what you’re looking for, drop us a line. We’d love to talk. (Please provide a link to your online portfolio, etc.)
Go order your WTR t-shirts over at United Pixel Workers!
Eligible Kickstarter backers will get their free shirts once they’re printed.
We’re taking 33% off all font orders from right now until the end of the year! That means all fonts will be $10 each instead of $15.
During checkout, just use the code HOLIDAYWOODTYPE2011
Go ahead and get the designer you love the gift of digital wood type font-ery. Yay!
No limits, buy all the fonts you want through December 31.
Happy Holidays,
Wood Type Revival
Happy holidays to all our friends on the Internets from the Beardeds!
XOXO,
Dominic, Matt G., Lauren, Brett, Michael, and Matt B.
Wow. Three years.
Yes sir, three years ago today, we started a little thing called Bearded. We were just two guys working out of our homes with a dream of helping make a better Internet, and I feel quite confident now that we’re well on our way.
This year was a pretty momentous one for us Beardeds. So much so that it will be difficult to condense it to the highlights. But here goes:
In our third year we launched our first Mac OS app, Briquette, on the Apple App Store. We built our first iPad-centric web app for LISC. Matt Braun and I started a Kickstarter campaign that resulted in our excellent in-house Bearded letterpress shop, not to mention Wood Type Revival. WTR struck a deal with the venerable web font service Typekit to carry all our fonts, as well as with Swiss Miss’ temporary tattoo product line Tattly. We began a fascinating consulting job with the enterprise search software company Vivisimo. And in the last quarter of this year we’ve begun to work on some exciting new website projects for RIDC, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and (my son Argus’ favorite) the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Oh yeah, and today we launched our brand-new responsive website.
Sometimes I look around at what we’ve created in such a short period of time and I can’t quite believe it. But then I focus my gaze on the extraordinarily talented, frequently brilliant, always tireless people I work with every day – and it all makes sense. I also feel overwhelmingly appreciative to all the clients we’ve had in the last three years for lending us their support, and believing in us, as we believed in their businesses and projects.
I’d like to thank all of our clients, past and present, for trusting us with their work and allowing us to do what we’re best at. I think I speak for all the Beardeds when I say it’s the best job I’ve ever had, and I can’t wait to see where it all goes in another three years. But it’s probably, you know, floating, mind-controlled superconductor mobile apps or something.
Matt Griffin
To celebrate our third anniversary, Bearded just launched a new website! It’s a great new site design (owing much to the hard work of Bearded designer Matt Braun). But just as interesting as the new visual approach is our approach to building the site.
Responsive web design (a term coined by Ethan Marcotte in his book of the same title) is an approach that allows a site’s layout to respond to the size of the browser viewport, allowing a more natural cross-device user experience. It’s something we’ll be employing with a lot of the client sites we’re working on right now. But if you want to see how it works sooner than that, fire up our new site. Flex the browser width, pull it up on your iPhone and iPad, and enjoy a better site experience across all sorts of devices. Pretty cool, huh?
Bearded is a full-service design and development agency. We are passionate about creating websites, brands, applications and print materials that help you connect with your audience.
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