The Cobbler’s Son Gets New Shoes

When we officially launched the Brick Factory on October 1, 2011 we quickly put together a four page website + blog in the days leading up to the announcement.  Due to time constraints, the placeholder site, which is still up, is dead simple.  The homepage features our logo,...

Filling Up the Walls

We moved into our new offices in downtown DC in November.  However, until this week, we hadn’t bothered to put anything up on the walls.  We were really busy, but more importantly we were really particular about what we put up.  We wanted to showcase the artwork of our super talented design staff,...

Happy Birthday, Drupal

On January 15, 2001, University of Antwerp student Dries Buytaert released the first version of Drupal to the open source community.  Dries had originally developed Drupal as a news site and message board that University of Antwerp students could use for discussion and content sharing.  Drupal has grown into the most popular open source Content Management System on the market,...

Our New Year’s Resolutions

Many people use the start of the new year as an opportunity to reflect  and recalibrate.  We are going through this process ourselves at the Brick Factory.

As a way of holding ourselves accountable and providing a peek as to where we think digital is going,...

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

When I worked at The Bivings Group, we always sent out traditional holiday cards.  The cards  were amazing due to the talent we had on staff, but it always seemed strange to me to produce a printed card.  As a digital agency, it seemed to me that we should do something digital. ...