Who We Are

We are Oak Studios. We create websites and applications, publish weblogs, and help our clients build brands online.

Since 2008, we have worked with companies like Apple, 37signals, NASDAQ, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and UNICEF to develop interfaces, platforms, and solve problems.

Our strong background in graphic design and interaction design allows us to bridge the gap between functional products and beautiful, memorable ones. When mobile, scalable, responsive design blends with well-balanced typography and good hierarchy, we’re happy.

How We Work

We are all about the best tools for the job. We love working with Ruby on Rails, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and love discovering new tools to solve problems.

We know content management systems. In fact, we built one. Siteleaf is an Oak-grown CMS that is lightweight, flexible, and easy to use.

Oak is headquartered at Studiomates, a collaborative workspace of designers, illustrators, bloggers, writers, and developers located in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

We love challenges, give us your best shot.

Skylar Challand

Skylar Challand comes from a background in design, spending the past decade working in web and application development. Before founding Oak, Skylar led development on an award-winning learning management system which has helped thousands of companies like Adobe, Getty Images, Virgin Mobile, and New York University train their employees. Skylar also writes about design at idsgn.org.

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Mike Fortress

Mike Fortress comes from a mixed background in design, illustration, and technology. He arrived at Oak from Chicago, where he was an art director and designer at the award-winning agency Energy BBDO and its digital partner Proximity Chicago. There he worked on brands such as the Chicago White Sox, Wrigley, and Bayer. Mike is also an amateur type designer and a skateboard enthusiast.

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Larry Fox

Larry Fox is a front-end developer by day and asleep by night. He enjoys riding bikes, skateboarding indoors, gray sweaters, and sparkling wine. A Coloradan at heart he has an affinity for the outdoors, and being active. Previously worked at Outlier doing all things digital. He dreams of being an astronaut one day.

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Pinky

I like food, food tastes good.

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