About us

We're just these guys, you know?

We are two college friends who figured if we were born a decade earlier, we would have made it big in the dot com boom and gotten out early. Alas, fate declared we be born in 1984, so we became scholars instead. We love the Internet, design, and typography, but not for their inherent beauty (though, we surely can appreciate it), but for their power to help communicate.

Bernard Yu

Content Strategist,
UX Advocate, HTML Junkie

Bernard loves style manuals. No, seriously, he doesn’t just like one style guide and sticks to it (but since you asked, The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Revision). He loves reading them, and getting into depth about word usage, margins, and punctuation placements. This is a man who would buy and read every revision of every major style manual if he could (except APA, screw APA). The perfect guy to write up and enforce brand control guidelines, no?

Bernard heads up the content strategy, user experience design, and project management. He has previously done web work for Beloit College and Scientists and Engineers for America, where he was a program manager and Technical Director. He graduated from Beloit College in 2007 with majors in Philosophy and Political Science. (Dude, it’s like I’m Oliver Reichenstein! Crap, I broke the fourth wall.)

Mark Quinn

Development Lead,
Mad Scientist

Mark is the genius. He learns languages like drinking water and speaks English (obviously), Japanese, Chinese, and a bit of Russian. He is that guy that started programming in Perl, moved onto Python, and learned Ruby in a few days while writing a content management system from scratch on the side. Mark is the man that lives on the bleeding edge of technology even if it means compiling from source every other day. In other words: Mark is the man who gets stuff done.

Mark is teaching at a private primary school in Hong Kong while preparing for a Master’s program in Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from Beloit College with a degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures.