Thanks for coming to the What Cheer OPEN HOUSE. We had a blast! We hope you did, too.

Your photos are online here: what-cheer.com/oh2010

Weeeeeeeeee!
John Henry Müller

We are settled into our new home office and factory. There will be an open house on Saturday, January 30, 2010 starting at 7:00pm CST.

There will be snacks, drinks, prizes and more.

Prizes include an iPhone, “I live in Omaha” merchandise and more. The drawing will happen around 9:00pm CST. Enter at the door. You must be present to win.

For additional chances to win, tag your twitter posts with: #whatcheer

More information can be found at:
Our site | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

See you on January 30!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
John Henry Müller

After a month of transition we have finally moved into our new home office and factory!

Our new space offers us an open creative environment and a lot more much needed space. We already miss our old studio and our office mates.

We have some thank yous to extend to some really great people: Ryan Ellis (our agent), Bob Grinnell, (owner of the Mastercraft Building) and Paul Nelson (architect).

We will be having an open house sometime after the first of the year. I hope you can make it.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
John Henry Müller

Friday night was the Nebraska chapter AIGA award show. It is always fun to catch up with the local design crowd and view the great work from our friends (and enemies?) over the last year.

Five of our websites were recognized this year with bronze awards. Congratulations to RehabVisions, Jeffrey Koterba, Painted Light Stained Glass and Geoff Johnson. Our own project (I live in Omaha) was also on the wall.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
John Henry Müller

Woah! It has already been one year since we launched Made with Joy™ (this weB LOG). Only 17 blog posts in a year? Lame!

Sounds pretty unkempt to me. We will try to do better to keep our promise.

We have some exciting things coming up, including: moving into a larger studio, our three year anniversary, some very exciting site launches and much more! To get the latest, follow us on Twitter: @whatcheer.

Woooolololololo!
John Henry Müller

Paul Rust is an actor, comic and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California. He is also a lifelong friend. We recently finished his new website/blog: paulrust.com.

The site look and feel was inspired by Paul’s playful and animated sense of humor. Oh! And if you click on Li’l Paul, his outfit changes.

Paul has received a lot of attention for his online videos which we have gathered for your convenience. He is also in some really great/silly rock ‘n roll bands.

Last month Paul starred in I Love You Beth Cooper. He has a supporting roll in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds which opens tomorrow.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
John Henry Müller

Meet the newest member of What Cheer: Alex P. Gates.

Alex is our in-house back-end developer. We are thrilled to have him here.

Adding Mr. Gates broadens our skill set to include online applications, e-commerce, content management, blog-craziness and pretty much anything else you can dream up.

You may already be familiar with his work. Alex helped us develop the I live in Omaha website and created @OmahaWeather, an automated Twitter weather application.

Alex has two daughters and a wife who packs lunches that evoke jealousy. Although he is very modest about his way with words, Alex is also a master of puns.

Welcome him to the posse:
yo-brotha-hambone (at) what-cheer.com

I can’t wait for you to meet him.

Wooooooooooooo!
John Henry Müller

Earlier this week, a project we have been working on launched. It is called: MixTape.me. MixTape.me is an index of music that already exists online and allows users to mix and share playlists.

The site has been getting a lot of attention this last week.

Our buddy Adam Pash is the brains behind the magic. We were responsible for the logo and graphic look & feel. We are very grateful to have worked on such an amazing project with incredible talent.

To get started, first watch this video. Or! If you are the type that doesn’t read instructions, jump right in. It is very intuitive and acts much like familiar desktop music players.

MixTape.me is a ton of fun. Make a playlist and share your link in the comments here.

Wooooooooooo!
John Henry Müller

Meet the newest member of What Cheer: Lauren Christie.

Two months ago we got a piece of “fan mail” from a young creative working at a publisher in Chicago. She was going to be passing through Omaha, so we took her out for lunch.

As it turns out, we happen to be in Lauren Christie’s fan club. We were so thrilled with her we decided to create a position for her.

This titleless position includes anything from office management to art direction and everything in between.

Say hello to Lauren at: nice-to-meet-you-lauren (at) what-cheer.com

I am sure you will love her as much as we do :)

Weeeeeeeeeeee!
John Henry Müller

We recently finished a website for Cariant Health Partners. Cariant specializes in placing occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech language professionals in short-term assignments nationwide.

Cariant’s strength is how far their account managers will go to find each traveler exactly what they are looking for. Cariant creates a “custom experience” for the traveler.

The website highlights four real life stories where Cariant went to great lengths to find them exactly what they were looking for.

We did simple arrow animations for each story to support the logo (which we designed last year). Our friends at MinorWhite took the photos.

Rather then pushing job listings and application forms, we instead lead candidates to a very low commitment page titled: “what are you looking for?“

Have a look-see: Cariant.com

Yeeeeeeeeeeeooooo!
John Henry Müller