Today is the official one year anniversary of nclud. Back in January 18, 2007, we officially became an LLC, registered the domain and started on this wild adventure to build a creative web design agency. We’ve learned a lot, grown significantly and had a lot of fun along the way.
We’ve had the pleasure of working with some great clients and amazing partners on many exciting projects throughout this first year. We’ve been busy to say the least!
We have a lot of great things planned for the future, many new clients coming in, many more exciting projects to be launched and even some new hires along the way. As many of you know, Cindy Li has officially joined the team and we have a new senior web developer that will be joining us in March – we are extremely excited and details will come soon.
A special thank you goes out to the Washington, D.C. community for constantly supporting us. A pleasant surprise was to see how many other designers, developers, freelancers and heads of agencies wanted to help us succeed – many went out of their way to do so.
Posted by Martin Ringlein on January 18, 2008 | Permanent Link | [2]
This week’s Layer Tennis match is going to be an exciting one! Two extremely talented web designers with a focus on illustration design are going head-to-head. Our own Cindy Li is up against Veerle Pieters — two close friends and two great designers makes for an interesting match-up.
The Layer Tennis match is today at 2:00pm CST. Be sure to check it out at http://layertennis.com/080111/; also, come in and participate in the forums as we cheer Cindy on: http://forums.layertennis.com/forums/13.
New to layer tennis?
From Layertennis.com:
“We’ll be playing matches using lots of different applications, from Adobe® Photoshop® to Adobe® Flash®, but the basic idea is the same no matter what tools are in use. Two artists (or two small teams of artists) will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a “volley” and then we post that to the site. A third participant, a writer, provides play-by-play commentary on the action, as it happens. The matches last for ten volleys and when it’s complete, everyone with an opinion sounds off in the Forums and we declare a winner.”
Posted by Martin Ringlein on January 11, 2008 | Permanent Link |
They say there is a niche website for everyone and the ladies of CSS are no exception. CSS Princess is a “project with the main idea of promoting and supporting beautiful and interesting css sites made by women. We all know that female designers have special sensibility and creativity, and we want to show the best websites world-wide with ‘woman’s touch’ primarily.”
Last week, nclud’s very own Cindy Li was interviewed by CSSPrincess to share a little more about herself – career, life, news, other stuff!
Check out the interview for yourself at: http://meet.cssprincess.com/interviews/cindyli/.
And, if you haven’t been to CSS Princess yet — it is worth a peek at. As Cindy put it, “Its a great place to feature the female community”.
Posted by Martin Ringlein on January 7, 2008 | Permanent Link |
We love our tech toys, especially when they make working in our studio more exciting. We decided to try out the infamous SlingBox as a cable television source solution. We don’t have cable running in the studio currently — we thought it would be a distracting expense that wasn’t really necessary or would even be used much. But, if you’re going to host a New Years party and want to watch the ball drop, what are you to do?
“The Slingbox turns any Internet-connected PC or laptop, Mac, or smartphone into your home television. That means you can watch TV virtually anywhere in the world.” It essentially taps into your cable TV at home and allows you to watch it over the internet; even on the mobile web! At about $120.00 USD, this little black box of joy was worth checking out; and did we mention, no monthly subscription fee.
The hype is legit — this bad boy is truly amazing. Granted the picture quality is only as good as compressed streaming video can be (hence we won’t be using it to throw any super-bowl parties). But, hook-up to a 50”, grab some champagne, take a couple steps back and Dick Clark is still doing his thing.
We haven’t played with the mobile version yet (I just assume it has to be a battery killer) or upgraded to PRO/HD Connect (which promises up to 1080i resolution) — but it sounds promising. You can only use your SlingBox on one computer at a time and if you are going to be using the SlingBox, remember, the person at home with the remote ultimately has total control (however, I solved for that by paying Comcast and extra $5/month for an additional cable box).
If you want your TV to go with you anywhere or are just looking for a cheap way to get TV from an existing cable source — SlingBox is amazing! For a $120, it is definitely a toy worth having around! Check it out at slingbox.com.
Posted by Martin Ringlein on January 2, 2008 | Permanent Link |
The Washingtonpost.com / Newsweek Interactive group are seeking some talented web directors, designers, developers and engineers in the New Year. Working with The Post is really a great opportunity!
Design Director
A motivated and talented design director to lead their Commercial Design team. The Design Director will be responsible for creativly developing the look and feel of B2B and B2C marketing and advertising in a fast-moving business environment. He or she is also responsible for managing a team of talented designers to support the company’s marketing and business goals through truly innovative and inspiring online, multimedia and print.
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Designer, Commercial Design
A motivated and talented designer to join their commercial design team. The designer will be responsible for working on a wide range of creative projects for variety of clients.
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Web Developer
A Web developer to join its Editorial Production department.
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Principal Web Front-End Engineer
The Principal Web Front End Engineer will be responsible for prototyping, designing and coding major portions of the WPNI Web site. This person will work closely with the WPNI design team and the back-end developers. Perform other engineering duties as required.
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Engineer – Principal Web Back End
Slate.com is seeking a senior-level programmer to support and develop web applications, editorially driven features, and production tools for the editorial staff of our online magazine.
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Wait, there is more!
While we are on the subject of web jobs, we should mention that our friends at Viget are also hiring for a variety of positions in both their VA and NC offices.
Posted by Martin Ringlein on December 29, 2007 | Permanent Link | [3]
