It's been a busy year at Brand New Box.
We try to treat every client like they're our soulmate* - and sometimes that means we forget to talk about all the other cool things we're building.
In fact, we're often asked: “You're so responsive, do you... uh... have any other projects?”
* It's you, though. You're our soulmate.
Along with our partners at AECOM, we started a third phase of this multi-year project. We built a suite of web and iOS tools to assess and manage every publicly-owned property in the County of Los Angeles.
We designed, built, and support several platforms for KSDE's special education ventures.
Merchtable is an ecommerce and fulfillment platform for independent bands, artists, podcasters, and youtube weirdos. We update and maintain the platform, and added a bunch of cool stuff this year.
We designed, built and launched the Institute for Family Support Professionals this year - a national co-op of online training for home visitors.
We built a new platform for CPPR to design and administer digital badges - a new badging platform that conforms to the Open Badge spec. It's like an online version of our annual Badge of Merit, but with evidence attached!
In 2016 we designed and launched IRIS, a platform to help organizations connect the families they serve to the right resources in their community. This year we expanded and improved it.
We've been supporting this growing coffee chain for years, and helping them build out their back-end processes along the way.
There are really more projects than you've got the patience to read about. Here's the short list:
AND all our Area 51 projects that are super interesting and not legally disclosable.
We really do think of everyone as a teammate, despite how corny this sounds. This year we had some fresh faces join in.
Development Intern
Development Intern
Development Intern
UX Intern
Development Intern
Developer, Secret Weapon
Developer Extraordinaire, Keeper of COLA Keys
Engineer, Axe-Throwing Expert, Lumberjack Poser
Super Professional
Gray Hair Collector
psst - want to work with us? Get in touch.
Every month we do something fun to celebrate what we've accomplished - and get away from our screens for a bit. A few highlights from 2017:
We taught ourselves the basics of lock-picking, and now we all have our own toolkits.
After months of construction, the brewery next door opened. Cheers!
We bought a 3D printer, and have melted a ton of plastic.
We got our asses handed to us by a bunch of junior high kids.
A friend opened a new axe-throwing alley. It is just as fun as you'd expect.
None of us can golf. But that doesn't stop us trying!
To celebrate being in business for the last ten (really, 10!) years, we put all our work on pause and went to Iceland for a week with our families. It was awesome.
This was an amazing trip, and a very memorable way to celebrate the first decade of Brand New Box.
