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Web Development Client Litmus Test

Friday, 06.25.10 at 2:32 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments (1)

We take great comfort in the fact that our core competency is design, user experience and front end development. This is not to say that we could not also build large scale web applications - it’s just not advantageous for us to offer this part of the process as a service.
Most of the pain [...]

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Unearth the Work: What Is Lupus?

Tuesday, 06.22.10 at 9:53 am
Written by Tom, Comments

Ideally, nobody should ever have to hear sentences like: “Lupus is chronic, inflammatory disease that affects the immune system.” Yet roughly 1.5 million people in the United States, including an estimated 10,000 children have unfortunately had to confront the challenge of dealing with having Lupus.
To better help the world to understand this collection of complex [...]

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Speaking at Type Directors Club December 10th

Wednesday, 12.09.09 at 2:34 pm
Written by Matthew, Comments (2)

Tom and I will be speaking at the Type Directors Club, this Thursday (December 10th @ 6pm). It’s shaping up to be a pretty amusing, if not enlightening stack of stories & work. Don’t tell us if you are going to be there; nothing freaks me out more than knowing some faces within the faceless [...]

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Chopping Block Saved the Date

Monday, 11.16.09 at 10:04 am
Written by Tom, Comments

Chopping Block first worked with Phish back around the late 90’s on a number of projects including (but not limited to) Farmhouse, Trampled by the Lamb, The It Festival, Phish 2.0 and later Phish 3.0. Depending on the nature of the project, Phish has always leaned heavily toward the absurd and often messing with conceptual [...]

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Baking the Block

Tuesday, 09.15.09 at 3:52 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments

Today is my 1-year anniversary at the Block.  It’s also dangerously close to a few Block birthdays.  In celebration of these monumentus events, I decided to bake a cake that (kind of) looks like our logo.  Also it incorporates our odd love of oranges and it’s sitting on a wood cutting board so we get the wood [...]

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Robot Stuff on Etsy: Part 5 (wedding edition)

Tuesday, 08.04.09 at 12:46 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments (6)

Today is a wonderful day the block. Leo, one of our own, got himself hitched and we couldn’t be more thrilled.
So you can imagine my excitement when I came across this on etsy. This adorable painting clocks in at a miniscule 2½” × 3½” but it is really quite beautiful even at such [...]

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Echos of Apollo and Ourselves

Tuesday, 07.21.09 at 1:18 pm
Written by Tom, Comments

Not as long ago as 40 years ago, but just a little over 10 years ago – The Chopping Block adopted the look of NASA for one of our online incarnations. More specific our adopted look embraced the era of Apollo in hopes that a little of that former astro-glory might rub off on our [...]

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Robot Haikus a Plenty

Thursday, 06.11.09 at 6:04 pm
Written by Tom, Comments

If you were ever curious about how many haikus you could get written just by offering some free t-shirts… we have the answer. Our tee design weRobot managed to inspire 862 different haikus written about robots on toplessrobot.com. One fellow named Glitchy Goblin actually went out of his way to pen 70 all by himself [...]

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5 Web Dev Tools I Can’t Function Without

Thursday, 05.14.09 at 2:22 pm
Written by Marissa, Comments (4)

All developer/designer types have a myriad of applications in their arsenal that they cannot live without. I am going to skip over the obvious ones: Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and focus on a few deeper tracks that you may or may not have heard of.

Textmateby Macromates http://macromates.com
In it’s simplest form, Textmate is a plain text editor. [...]

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Happy Cinco De Mayo

Tuesday, 05.05.09 at 5:18 pm
Written by Tim, Comments (1)
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