One member of Work Work Play, Jeremiah, will be going on hiatus after August. He'll likely be back at the end of September. As of now, Work Work Play has no foreseeable slots open until 2009.

We'll still be blogging and creating status updates, but we won't likely be taking on new work.

We're pretty proud of ourselves. Not too shabby for a self-funded company that started only a year ago! :-)

Work Work Play will have been established 1 year on August 16th.

We're sorry all slots are filled. We will need to re-work our 15% discount offer for Portland area web projects, because we're unavailable for the months we first offered the discount.

Official Schedule Under here:

I'm up early and going over reports. I decided to make a quick blog.

Updates:

I recently finished donating design services to the Susuan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (Central New Mexico affiliate), in conjunction with Michael Roanhorse. We (Jeremiah and I) would like to get into doing more charitable work in this way, which is another reason we have considered signing up for the Taproot Foundation. The ad I finished, which will appear in the August Issue of the Santa Fean Magazine is a 2-page spread for an auction of one of Mr. Roanhorse's pieces, all proceeds will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Ideas:

Take a look at this packaging. Is this not some of the sexiest stuff you have ever seen? Jeremiah and I bought a bottle of Izze and of Dry just because we liked the packaging. The Dry was delicious (my favorite is rhubarb). The Izze tasted like cough syrup, baby aspirin, and seltzer. But we both agreed after we drank the disgustingness, that the packaging really sold us. No one escapes the design machine.

Smashing Magazine compiled a list of beautiful and expressive packaging and they have more than a few favorites of mine. I've followed a lot of these companies for a long time, but one of the companies I was surprised to see not there, Duffy. Duffy's packaging is amazing and their identity work is incredible. This is how much we love Duffy, we saved a Basil Hayden whiskey bottle (from the Jim Beam small batch collection) just for the packaging.

It's a lazy Sunday and you've got nothing better to do but read our newsletter and think to yourself, "Now, who do I know in Portland that need the services of this upstanding company? Who wants to save on their next projects? Who? Who?" You look just like a baby owl, all wild-eyed, and you probably have a little graduation hat... Yep, you're studious like that.

Also, let me just disclaimer a bit: I coded the newsletter using Dreamweaver (it had to be done in tables for the purpose of it being sent in email.) I have not had to code anything by hand in about 4 years. This experience totally conked me on the head with the fact that I haven't coded in a very long time.