Recent posts about Raised Eyebrow

Raised Eyebrow Celebrates Ten Years

There’s a lot of birth talk around the office these days. On top of Emira’s rapidly approaching due date, I find the birth of a new year often turns one’s thoughts to past accomplishments and new beginnings.

We’ve got one more birthday coming up on February 1, as our studio celebrates its tenth anniversary. It’s a little dumbfounding, I’ll admit, to think that it was ten years ago that Emira and I set out on our own and hung out our shingle – in some ways it seems the time has passed in a heartbeat, while in others it feels like a lifetime ago that we were working in a corner of my bedroom.

Beyond moving our desks out of my apartment, we’ve passed a few milestones in the last ten years. I’d like to mention just a few:

We're hiring…

We're expanding our team here at Raised Eyebrow, and this time we're looking for a Front-End Developer/Themer -- someone who loves building websites, and is looking to extend their skills with Drupal and WordPress.

Beyond our roster of fantastic, progressive clients, we offer a positive & healthy work environment, beautifully remodeled heritage office space, and a team of web experts who love what we do and are keen to share knowledge and produce top-notch work.

Intrigued? Know someone who might be a fit? Check out the job description and get in touch.

Why Not Come Play With Us

Once again we have space available for sublease in our office. We're going through some changes here at the office which mean we're now offering a slightly different configuration from what we've offered in the past. We have two options available: either individual desk rental in our larger office space, or, if it suits your purposes better we also have an enclosed office available which would fit up to two people.  Details are below. I can't say enough about how lovely this building and the people in it are (plus we're kind of swell folks to be around too).

For Rent in Shared Space:

Single Desks in Common Area: $400/month each

Exploring the Vancouver Arts Scene via Twitter

Between my personal background in -- and passion for -- music, and the fact that many of our nonprofit clients hail from the arts sector, I try to keep an eye on how arts groups are using social media to achieve their missions. In particular, lately I've been looking around on Twitter to see which Vancouver arts groups are doing interesting things in the Twitterverse. I'm excited to see how many organizations are reaching out to new and existing audiences via Twitter, and I thought it might be of interest to some readers to hear about some Vancouver arts organizations who are doing a lot with 140 characters.

My focus tends to skew towards music, and classical music in particular, so you'll definitely notice that bias here. I've also tried to limit the list to groups who are twittering actively, and conversing rather than simply broadcasting one-way announcements.

Social Enterprise wanted at Woodward's

Our new offices in the Flack Block bring us even closer (by a hundred feet or so) to the new Woodward's site development that we've been watching evolve over the past couple of years -- now we're located in the same city block as the old Woodward's store, which is slowly but surely transforming into a large-scale mixed-use project that promises to change the landscape of this part of the city when it's completed.

We are just months away from the projected completion date, and buzz is building. Today I received an RFP (circulated by the Centre for Social Enterprise) for a social enterprise business opportunity in the new retail space at Woodward's. Read on for more details…