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soon it will all be over

We’ve been busy with projects. Some launched, some coming soon. There is a new product brewing at Iridesco, codenamed GSD. GSD is a fresh look at the old problem of organizing and tracking things, and we promise it’s nothing you’ve ever seen before. Beta coming soon.
Noteworthy: we (finally) published an excellent [...]

phone card designs

“Everyone is trying to make their (prepaid phone) card stand out,” Carson (Harvey Carson of Pentagon Graphics, not to be mistaken with Pentagram) says - and if that involves a design that some might consider rather didactic, or even ugly, well, so be it.
From an article by Rob Walker, who wrote about about the design [...]

Iridesco heads down to SXSW 2007

The year is 2007 and Iridesco figures that someone in this design and technology company should head down to Texas and check see what this SXSW Interactive thing is all about. After a fierce game of rock-paper-scissors, I had been chosen to go to ol’ Austin.
So if you too find yourself in [...]

Profiled in AsiaConnect

Amidst all the busy-ness, I took some time out a few weeks ago to answer some questions for a publication called AsiaConnect. In the profile, I discuss some of our upcoming plans and talk a bit about the Iridesco story so far. Read the article.

Four years later

The official birthday for Iridesco is January 3rd, 2003. About a week before that, Danny and I were deciding the name for our soon-to-be company over AIM. We both threw out a bunch of words and phrases, and here’s a partial list:

muse, wind up (after The Wind Up Bird Chronicles), swivel, hairdo, square melons, [...]

Vinnie’s visit

Our friend Vinnie came to visit the other week, bearing exciting news about his new life in California. This past week he shared some more amazing news about his life at meetro, featured in San Francisco Chronicles. Congratulations Vinnie!

Announcing the Harvest New Founders Program - Free Time Tracking

We just launched a new initiative aimed to help new small businesses by giving away our time tracking tool. A new company every month will receive a year’s worth of Harvest subscriptions so they’d have one less thing to worry about as they get their businesses set up. For more details, please check [...]