Wanted: Office Coordinator

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The Office Coordinator is the glue that holds Peapod together. An important role that includes managing and coordinating day-to-day tasks such as, organizing the studio, manning the phones, coordinating meetings, ordering office supplies, plus additional administrative tasks.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to build rapport and work effectively with all studio members and clients
• Able to juggle many tasks within a short timeframe, with effective prioritization
• Positive, mature and professional, can-do attitude
• Detail oriented, self-sufficient and organized
• Must work independently with minimal supervision
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive thinker who seeks to create efficiencies within the work environment
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Office Suite

Experience

• 1-2 years experience in an office environment
• Reception and customer service experience an asset
• Basic accounting and payroll

Nice to Have

• Project management experience
• Interest in design and interactive services

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume by email to jobs@peapod.ca

Thank you for your response, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Open Source Fonts.

Free fonts have always been shunned by the design community, and many of the free fonts on the internet are simply poorly crafted ripoffs of actual quality typefaces. They lack differentials in weights, have improper or incomplete unicode, poor hinting and so on.

However some in the typography community are now moving towards the creation of high quality, open source free fonts. This is a sea change in the philosophy we’re used to dealing with from the old school foundries, representing a new age in how we can consume great typefaces.

Today we’ll focus on an open source foundry we just love…

The League of Movable Type

Philosophy: No more bullshit. Join the revolution.

“We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.”

Quite a statement, and they deliver on that promise. Here’s some of our favourites typefaces from The League of Movable Type.

League Gothic

league gothic

League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.

You can grab League Gothic here

Junction

Junction

Inspired by my favorite humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds.

You can grab Junction here

Chunk

Chunk

Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.

You can grab Chunk here

One of our core philosophies at Peapod Studios is to always strive to work with open source software whenever and wherever we can. Seeing this open ideology move to the realm of typefaces is indeed very exciting.

The League of Movable Type Logo

With our highest recommendation, please check them out.

The League of Moveable Type

Freshbooks Makes Us Look Professional Every Day, So We Decided to Return the Favour.

Freshbooks makes us look professional every day. We’ve been customers since early 2007, and have no reason or inkling to ever move away from their awesome time-tracking and billing services. They save us several hours a week, and days a month. If you want to know how valuable your time is, try doing your invoicing for one month with FreshBooks, we promise you wont ever want to go back to your crusty old system.

So when Michael McDerment called and asked us to add a little spit and polish to his presentation at the Future of Web Apps Conference, we absolutely jumped at the chance.

Mike giving his talk
Photocredit: Alex Designs

Presentation Slide

Presentation Slide

Presentation Slide

Presentation Slide

FreshBooks Believes…

Running a business is hard enough. We believe financial record keeping should be easy, fast, (and perhaps even fun), but still detailed enough to satisfy your accountant.

Billing should be simple. You can send an invoice a few seconds after creating your account no matter what level of experience you have.

Your data deserves to be safe, secure, and accessible to you. We also believe you own your data, we do not. Your data will be easy to export any time you want it.

Every customer should look like a Fortune 500 company, based on the image sent by invoices, bills, or other accounting communications, no matter what size the company is.

Thank You.

So a giant “Thank You” to the FreshBooks Management Team for putting your external face to the world in our hands, if only for a brief moment.

We were happy to return the favour.

Bumptop Releases Bumptop for Mac 1.0

We’re all about new tech gadgets and finding new ways to organize ourselves here at Peapod Studios. That’s why we’ve had our eyes on the development going on at Bumptop for sometime now.

Unfortunately until this week there was no option for Mac users to experience the innovative design and workflow Bumptop had created for PC desktops.

Well all that changed this week, when the fully realized Bumptop for Mac edition was released.

At first blush it’s immediately apparent Bumptop has put quite a bit of polish into its new release. It’s an absolutely gorgeous, well conceived user experience treatment of your standard desktop. It’s integration into workflow makes me believe that it was Apple itself that implemented this edition, or at least they’ll try to nab bits of it for later releases.

The basic version is free for download, and for a mere $29 you can upgrade for a more feature rich full version.

Negligence.

Well its been over 2 months since we’ve posted anything here, and there is really no excuse for our tardiness. We’ve been sidetracked by extensive hours and ongoing projects, and I have been negligent. My apologies.

So What’s New?

We had the opportunity to develop the website, branding and identity for ChangeCamp

change camp poster

You can read about The Impact of ChangeCamp over at Remarkk’s site.

ChangeCamp describes itself as, a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer one question: How do we re-imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation?

I Tell Stories

We were lucky enough to be asked to work on Sameer Vasta’s full redesign for his infamous blog, I Tell Stories

I Tell Stories

Sameer had only a few thoughts, Simple, simple, simple and easily readable. To a designer, a creative brief like this is a gift, we hope he’s happy with the final result, personally we love it.

East End Nerds

Let’s face it, we’re all nerds, and lot’s of us here in Toronto live in the east end, so through the power of twitter we managed to finagle a nice little drink up in November, which we deemed “East End Nerds” There is a small flickr gallery here.

Nerds

BrundleCamp

Alistair ( Peapod Designer ) turned 40 on January 10th, 2009. Again through the power of the internet, his friends hosted a little bash for him at the Spice Route. It was deemed ( as so much in our little geek community ) as a camp… Brundlecamp. Many thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with this quadro-generian. some photos

brundlecamp

Favourite Fonts

We created a list of our favourite fonts… just because.

Fave fonts

There is so much more, but due to client NDA’s and assorted conflicts, we can only present the more personal things. we hope 2009 is as good for you as it already has been for us.

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