Shipped in 2017
IN 2017 WE…
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Launched Dropmark for iOS after a lot of coding, designing, tweaking, a little bit of sweat, and a lot of love.
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Returned to the App Store’s top 25 category charts with Blue. This included 10.5k downloads in one day and over 23k in the week following making it free.
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We headed to California for Oakweek, where we worked on some cool new projects which might come to fruition next year, and ate a lot of really great food.
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Sponsored the Github Universe conference with Siteleaf. We left the conference inspired and with this song in our heads for days.
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Moved into our new office at Industry City with all our plants, books, and booze. Come say hi anytime, we always have the makings of a good Dark ‘n’ Stormy around.
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Answered the age old question ’should designers paint’ with our badass office makeover.
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Launched Dropmark browser extension for Safari, to round out the trio of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
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Hosted a talented designer/illustrator intern, Hayelin Choi, who is now studying at MICA.
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Launched a fun and voyeuristic project with Creative Mornings and MailChimp.
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Were joined by Ethan Turkeltaub who moved to Brooklyn to be with the Oak team full time after graduating from Marist College.
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Interviewed our design hero Jon Contino for our Dropmark interview series.
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Hit 13 million uploads with Dropmark, 3.8 million uploads in 2017 alone.
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Were joined by Ye Heon Shin as our Product Design Intern. Fun fact: Ye once ate 200 dumplings in one sitting #hero.
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Discovered the Amazon warehouse 5 buildings away, and placed many orders to outfit our studio.
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Worked with the School of Visual Arts to ship an all new version of their iOS portfolio app.
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Helped our friends at Collins launch a spiffy new website.
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Did some spring cleaning and cleared 220 GB from our Macs.
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Hired Jojo Giltsoff as Community Manager; she is beautiful, talented, and writing this blog post. Her dog Cooper occasionally makes an office appearance too as Manager of Cuddles.
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Began offering self-hosted versions of Dropmark and Siteleaf Enterprise (get in touch if your company is interested!).
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Helped CreativeMornings reach 180 cities around the world (in 15 languages).
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Were joined by our pal and badass UX designer Erica Heinz at our new office space.
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Updated Pizza Compass and Blue for iOS 11 and iPhone X.
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Sent out our first ever studio newsletter. Get on the list!