thehappycorp seeks design apprentice

We are a young, successful, and fun creative studio looking for a talented interactive design apprentice.

This special someone will have strong interactive design and communication skills with an interest in media, marketing, design, art, fashion, music and culture.

We value all kinds of experience; html/css, flash animation / action script, video editing, experimental art, design, magazine layout, etc.

Check out the application.

Capital One Card Lab.. No thehappycorp card yet?

We found ourselves the target of many ads for Capital One’s Card Lab. It’s a website that is basically a CafePress or Spread Shirt for Your Credit Card, with all the fixin’s, except one. They promise in all their ads that you can upload a photo to live on your card, however upon further examination, they haven’t launched that feature yet. Sad.  Another sad thing, is how big they want their capital one logo to live over your artwork.  We can’t have it all. But maybe someday..

Jon Chonko, designer

Jon Chonko is busy right now growing his beard and manipulating the way the world looks. As a designer at thehappycorp, that’s his job. Make new things to put inside the world. How cool is that?

Two years ago Jon decided his life was decidedly lacking in manliness. To remedy this, Jon painted his body and leapt through a bonfire kindled with his newly shorn hair. His male friends watched and decided that indeed, Jon had become a man. Then they all sweated together in a manly sweat man lodge.

Jon is going to head thehappycorp’s new Man Ceremony program, dedicated to helping emasculated 18 year olds get in touch with loin cloths and Aboriginal paint. Want to sign up? You can hold a spear and chant.

Jon’s other interests include finding giant sidewalk cocks and curing codpieces. Most of the time he reminds of a cross between Uncle Manny just back from a seven-year stint at Leavenworth and King Richard home from the Crusades–always returning from somewhere to sit at a table and gorge himself on meat and drink, laughing all the while about your sister, OH GOD, what he did with your sister…

A little bit of incurable insanity makes the world go round. You can join the Jon Chonko Fanclub on Facebook.

Melting ice caps force bear migration

We’re seeing the effects of the melting ice caps first hand at thehappycorp re-education center. This little guy made himself at home while Dave was at lunch.

He got a hold of a black sharpie and went to town on our wall calender. Now all the days are black Xs; a statement about his species’ precarious situation, no doubt.

Check out his Action Pad full of Action Steps:

–Chase seals

–Make yellow snow

–Fish

–Wallow

–Posture for territory

He’ll probably find New York’s winter weather a disappointment. If he decides to stay we’ll get him a spot in Rock Band.

Alex Sturtevant, Producer

Alex Sturtevant is living a life of penance. After a 12-year old in sweatpants accused him of not “keeping it real” as a DJ at a dance for troubled teens in Vermont, Alex moved to a mob rich neighborhood in Brooklyn where he walks amongst the people, slowly absorbing the “real” that hardens inside his chest like Sunday morning’s grease pour from the skillet.

Before arriving at thehappycorp, Alex was a producer for Special Ops Media, guiding projects with a strong emphasis in cinema for clients like 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Universal. In his spare time he built (hands and sweat) NOLEJ recording studio in Hell’s Kitchen. There’s a reason we call him Sturdy.

Alex also sustains a 20lb cat called Meatballs. This may be his crowning achievement.

Tim Saverine

Update May 2008: In the Spring of 2008, Tim Saverine took a chance on his true love and moved on to one of its temples of worship. After over a year as an apprentice and then a full time Junior Producer, Tim joined Marc Jacobs with a position at Marc by Marc.

We will miss Tim and his impeccable, relaxed style. He was a vital piece of our production group puzzle and his diversity of skill and ambition to learn allowed him to advance our internal practice for Information Architecture. We will miss his gentle manner and his way with a fitted jacked. We wish him the best.

_______________________________________________________________________ Our family has been growing. Tim Saverine showed up quietly on our doorstop one cold spring morning when we lived in our old apartment.

Randy Makiej appropriated Tim for his personal apprentice, but Tim’s production skills soon made him an invaluable junior producer to our entire family. He became full time at thehappycorp in July 07.

In our new, well-lit home, many people want to sit next to Tim, but only only one of us gets to sit across from him, looking straight at him, daunted daily by his endlessly permutating array of sweaters, cardigans, toggle coats…

Tim is currently on leave from Parsons where he studies Design + Management. This is perfect, because good designers need good management and we know that Tim is on track to be one of the best directors in whatever city he chooses to grace with his dapper intellect.

Randy Makiej

Update April 2008: After over a year of valued service Randy Makiej has re-joined the world of freelance talent. We will miss Randy, and we are indebted to him for helping us build out our production group, establish improved process, and bringing Senior experience to one of the companies fastest growth periods. Additionally, his skill with a hammer and band saw were invaluable as thehappycorp moved into its new digs at 407 Broome.

Randy was last seen driving his new Ducati to a business lunch in Brooklyn and bolstering his resume with projects from here to LA.
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Our family has been growing so fast that it’s tough to keep up.

Familiarize yourself with this new outpouring of names. The people who have them are behind thehappycorp global’s ever-expanding creative hegemony.

Randy Makiej has been pulling stunts around here for a while as our Head of Production. Shame on us for not telling you about him earlier, but he’s kind of like a secret weapon. If you look at his computer Michael Caine will point a shotgun at you.

Occasionally Randy leaves NYC and drifts down to Mexico or Costa Rica to surf with Latin heads of state. We assume it was during one such southern sortie, perhaps while waiting on the beach for a particular swell, that he picked up his incomparable Fimo Bead skills.

Before coming to thehappycorp Randy was a skater in Boston (still his preferred mode of transport) and the Animation Producer at Curious Pictures where his client list included Microsoft, HBO, Blue Man Group and Intel.

He also had a hand in Chicago 10, a documentary/animation about the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention. C10 was an Opening Night Film at Sundance this year.