11.11.11: 3 Years of Bearded
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
