People Archives
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Happy Cog merges with Airbag Industries
August 3, 2009
Happy Cog and Airbag Industries, two leading and influential web design firms, announce that they are merging. The resulting super-agency will be called Happy Cog, and will maintain studios in three cities: New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
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Zeldman in .net
May 26, 2009
The upcoming issue of .Net, the UK/US magazine devoted to web design and development, features as its cover story an interview with Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman. Get the low-down behind the rise of web standards and the scoop on emerging trends and themes as JZ sees them. Read in PDF (4.2 MB download) or purchase at your local newstand. Visit netmag.co.uk for more of the best in web design and development.
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First Book tournament
February 26, 2009
Happy Cog, Crush + Lovely, Metafilter, 37signals, and Field Notes are proud matching sponsors of Coudal Partners’s Making Book: a $20-per-bet handicapping of the Fifth Annual Morning News Tournament of Books that raises money to buy poor kids their first book. All money bet will go to First Book, “a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.”
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Cog’aoke!
February 21, 2009
Happy Cog’aoke, presented by Happy Cog, is a karoke competition and party for people who love the web… and karaoke. Ok!
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Happy Cog and Housing Works showcase
December 11, 2008
In an Expression Engine Showcase Interview, Greg Hoy and the staff of Happy Cog Philadelphia discuss how the agency used Expression Engine to meet the detailed and sophisticated needs of Housing Works.
Housing Works provides homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and their families with housing, meals, medical care, drug treatment, social support, employment opportunities, and other lifesaving services fundamental to health and happiness.
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Happy Cog New York’s New Digs
July 3, 2008
The New York office of Happy Cog Studios has moved to swank new accommodations on Fifth Avenue above Madison Square in Manhattan. We’re sharing the plush space with our colleagues at Roger Black Inc. and Danilo Black. A few photos from the move are now available. Our Philadelphia office is also relocating to a fine new spot; more will be revealed.
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The pig makes noise
April 14, 2008
SmartyPig has been all over the place lately. Since the site launched in early March, the Happy Cog-designed social banking website has been profiled in an article on Businessrecord.com, on American Public Media’s Future Tense (available as a podcast in RealMedia, MP3 or via iTunes), Dow Jones Market Watch, Webware, Download Squad, Mashable, and on Net Banker. When not making noise in the media, SmartyPig has been listening to its users. Righteous.
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Pixel8 Podcast
March 19, 2008
More about version targeting: Craig Shoemaker interviews Jeffrey Zeldman for Pixel8. The interview was conducted in February 2008, after Microsoft had announced version targeting in its IE8 browser, but before the company, bowing to public opinion, changed version targeting so that advanced standards would be supported by default.
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Meet Matt
March 18, 2008
One of the best things about An Event Apart is the attendees, who travel from far and wide not only for the great content and speakers, but also to spend time in the company of their fellow craftspeople of the web. We’d like to introduce you to one of them: Matt Rossi.
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More SXSWi Videos
March 18, 2008
SXSW Interactive video podcasts featuring Happy Cog personnel include:
- Respect! Panel Excerpt featuring Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign and Google, and Happy Cogs Erin Kissane, Liz Danzico, and Jason Santa Maria. Moderated by Jeffrey Zeldman.
- Michael Lopp and Jeffrey Zeldman on user interface design and managing design and development teams.