2013

In 2013 we…

• Launched a marketing site for Monotype’s SkyFonts service.

• Shipped (literally) 1000 Symbolset specimen books to our favorite customers.

• Introduced Dashboard view on Dropmark with new privacy settings, quick upload, and collection merging.

• Created and shipped our first iOS app Blue during Oakweek in Los Angeles.

• Designed our first piece of furniture, a 16-foot worktable made of reclaimed oak (a collaboration with Lorimer Workshop), completing our new studio space at Studiomates.

• Redesigned Symbolset.com, launched while attending SXSW in Austin.

• Introduced Symbolset Hosting to simplify semantic icons on the web.

• Designed a fresh new packaging system for Quarterly Co.

• Redefined RSS consumption with Gazette, our weekly blog-to-ebook service.

• Introduced commenting, geo-location, and metadata in Dropmark.

• Won 2 Webby Awards for Working Not Working.

• Cooked up our second iOS app Pizza Compass with studiomate Dan Blackman and visionary Zeus Gorham Munkist, hitting #1 in the App Store Food & Drink category.

• Shipped our third iOS app for School of Visual Arts, powered by the Dropmark API.

• Doubled storage on Dropmark because we love our users.

• Rebuilt and launched Siteleaf (our content management for web developers) to the world.

• Created a marketing site for a stealth new startup, and fell in love with SVG animations along the way.

• Made Dropmark better with one-click collection downloads.

• Gave Unix time (seconds since epoch) some stiff competition with our very own Seconds Since Tupac.

• Launched our biggest project of the year, CreativeMornings with over 345 hours of video, 11 languages, and 1,372 GitHub commits.

• Hosted our first, second, and third Siteleaf Hackday in Brooklyn.

• Created a new website for type foundry collective Village, introducing responsive design and web font sales.

• Added developer accounts to Siteleaf, making it easy for developers to test sites for free.

• Introduced Sprout, a white-glove service to help customers optimize their website and upgrade to Siteleaf.

• Added 6 new Symbolsets: Gizmo, Forecast, Steedicons, Junior, Geomicons Squared, and Air.

• Created Woodshop, a celebration of handcrafted wood products made in the USA.

• Redesigned Working Not Working, the biggest change since its first launch in 2011.

Work with us

Have an interesting project? Get in touch and let’s make things happen in 2014.