The all new YouWorkForThem has officially arrived. You will now find that ordering, downloading and browsing products is faster, easier and better than anything ever before. Read the rest of this entry »

3 - Posted by Michael Paul Young on October 5th, 2008

Remember Lamborghini? You know, the 80’s sports car sensation with its insane yellow and fire red colors. Anyways, did you know they are now a profitable company that sells over 2000 cars a year? Previously they used to only sell around 200-300 cars a year! Well, they have now taken a strange journey into creating a sedan, if you can call it that. Read the rest of this entry »

0 - Posted by Michael Paul Young on October 4th, 2008

When we (Cina & Young) started YouWorkForThem 6 years ago, we soon realized our time for client work was very thin. Over the years we have cut back, putting almost all of our focus and time into this little child of ours. But sometimes, we make time to help friends, fellow peers or big buckaroo clients with some design insight. This year, we helped out our peers David and Zoe from a very interesting company called Commonwealth. They are based out of Brooklyn, New York and do very interesting work for an array of clients using various mediums. You might call them Architects if you had to call them anything, but they are not creating architecture in the traditional sense. Read the rest of this entry »

0 - Posted by Michael Paul Young on October 4th, 2008

We were part of this party that took place in Minneapolis called Sugar. Every 6 months in Minneapolis, they have these huge fashion events and Sugar was the big party of the weekend. YWFT was asked to contribute shirts from our new run that the servers wore. It was featured in the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper and think it was on TV too. I guess it ended in people jumping in the pool and getting freaky wild. None of us were there (we rarely go to any events like this), so we can’t verify, but here are some pictures. Get ready for new shirts from us.

Thanks to Digital Crush for the photos.

0 - Posted by Michael Cina on October 1st, 2008

It has recently come to our attention that for the past month or so, Yahoo has seemed to be blocking our emails or flagging them as spam. Who knows why, maybe our unique company name triggers some sort of spam name with them, but its really annoying for everyone. If you are not getting a response from our customer service, or any email receipts, you may want to try checking your spam folders, and settings in Yahoo. If you still do not get any email responses, contact us using a different email other than on Yahoo. I wish there was an easier solution, but this is Yahoo’s doing, not ours.

PS: In a few more days, you will no longer have to wait for emails to start your downloads. Hang in there, October 6th is coming soon…

2 - Posted by Michael Paul Young on October 1st, 2008

I always give Google tons of crap, because I cannot comprehend how a company who at one time had stocks steadily in the $500 range, can have such ugly products. I mean, they have adult slides, guitar hero rooms, and endless insanity in their posh offices that make the .com offices of late 90’s look modest. But yet, they cannot hire a descent design team? I mean, seriously, gmail, calendar, all these web apps are FUGLY. It is easily noticeable how they were coded, then they “polished the turd” with some quick CSS and called it a wrap. If I am wrong on this process, then that makes the overall design even that much more lame.

So, I was happy to see Google actually commissioned a custom face for Android. The face is called Droid and was created over 2 tears by a company called Ascender Corporation. The face looks pretty nice, especially once you know the project briefing Ascender was given - ‘They wanted to see a range of styles, from the typical, bubbly Google image to something very techno-looking,’

Now, a company who has a rainbow inner bevel logo, to get a font like this as a middle ground on their idea, I think is a damn sweet deal. Now, too bad they didn’t spend that much time on the actual Android interface. That interface makes Windows 95 look like solid gold. Common Google, hire some damn designers. Wait, let me rephrase that, hire some GOOD designers.

4 - Posted by Michael Paul Young on September 30th, 2008

I have given The Blog another refresh, cleanup and overall house cleaning that was well overdue. We have decided to remove the speak area as it goes back to the drawing board. As well, the mypage feature will soon be entirely gone from YouWorkForThem. I had also been notified recently of users not being able to log into the blog. This is all fixed now, sorry about that one. Everything should be all clean and easy to go now, comment away and we should be back to posting more frequently next week.

Hint: Look for something even bigger next week (October 6) to come from YouWorkForThem.

0 - Posted by Michael Paul Young on September 29th, 2008