A handful of tips for selling online (through the lens of specialty coffee, of course).
Better Product Photography With Your iPhone
For website product photography, smartphones are generally reliable options.
5 Fantastic Fonts Designed for Coding
Do you spend a lot of time in a text editor, or just need good monospace fonts? Well, it’s the year 2020 now and it’s time to treat yourself. Here are some…
Shooting Interview Video on a Budget
A couple years ago, we began producing Unpacking Coffee, our own video podcast (50 episodes and counting!) as well as numerous video projects for clients. While ramping up for this work, we began amassing…
Sketch, Shared Symbol Libraries, and Needmore
Sketch has been our go-to interface design app for a while now. If we thought we’d ever look elsewhere, something has just convinced us to put a 💍 on it, as they…
One Simple Thing
One Simple Thing You hear the one simple thing phrase so often it has become a meme. The idea being that there is one simple thing that can make you do amazingly well…
On Producing a Personal Music Website with WordPress
WordPress as the ideal partner for producing a sleek, simple website for one musician’s deep archive of music, photography, and memories.
WordPress + Advanced Custom Fields = Perfect Layouts
We’ve found the blissfully happy middle space between buying a random theme and writing everything from scratch and it is a dream. Get the step-by-step details.
Hiring: WordPress Designer
Come be a part of our awesome team.
Thoughts on Responsive Field Day
Our team was thrilled to attend Cloud Four’s Responsive Field Day this year, and we thought we’d share some of our notes with you.
History of “The Marber Grid”
By the dawn of the Sixties, the books published by Penguin were looking tired and dated. Something was needed to make them look exciting again to the book-buying public. This is the story of how Romek Marber’s design reinvented Penguin’s book covers in the Sixties.
14 Things I Learned About Apple and Typography
At the WWDC conference, Apple unveiled the complete San Francisco type family. Here’s what’s cool.
The Art of 101 Dalmatians
How a newer, simpler animation technique helped save Disney Animation.
On Design and Complications
When is it a feature and when is it a complication?
CRMs for Small Teams
From the trenches reviews of six contenders: Highrise, Streak, Base, RelateIQ, Sellf, Pipedrive.
Virtualization and Web Development
Is it nerdy? Yes, yes it is. Is it awesome? It is also awesome.
The Job, The Book
Why spend time with friends and family for the holidays, when you could be reading our book from The Job?
Apple Pay’s Hidden Win
We’ve already saved $290. You can too with Apple Pay.
Design Week Portland Events
It’s Design Week Portland and of course we’re doing design stuff this week.
Work at Needmore
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