On October 9th, 2009 RogueSheep was approached to shoot a video by the production company Tipsy Pix and their partner Boston-based NKP Media. NKP Media is one of the top video suppliers to the big textbook publishers in the college market. The video was being shot for Cengage Learning’s best-selling textbook on marketing. The chapter in which we were asked to be a video component was Product Decisions, and we were chosen due to the fact that earlier in 2009 our iPhone application “Postage” had won the coveted Apple Design Award. Postage was a gift that just kept giving. We agreed to be a part of the video.

With our Seattle office under construction the morning of the shoot, the producers were creative and took it outside to use the scenic skyline as a backdrop. It was a perfect way to start the day. Chris Parrish and Brad Ellis were enthusiastic to talk about their product decisions, concepts and show off Postage to a few locals during the short clip. It was a gratifying experience to demonstrate the app in the wake of the huge splash it had made. The video was shot in HD and is slated to be shown all over the country at different universities in marketing classes during the 2010/2011 school year.

Tipsy Pix has produced hundreds of succinct educational documentaries and case studies of many well-known and upwardly-mobile companies. The condensed list includes: Vans, Kodak, Organic Valley, Method, Honda and Raleigh Bicycles. We were proud to join that list and enthusiastic to see the final footage.

It was a lot of fun for the company to get involved with this shoot. It is so rewarding to see something you did some of your best work on spread itself to unexpected venues. We will continue to make top-notch products with a design flair people seem to appreciate. We hope you will enjoy the video. Thank you for making Postage the success it has become!

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Over the course of a normal day I tend to end up with somewhere between five and ten iChat conversations rolling. You can imagine that I might be a little excited about tabbed chat windows in Leopard! To deal with the mess of windows this generates I have a habit of minimizing a chat window when the conversation has paused.

When you do this on OS X, the minimized window is represented in the Dock as your chat buddy’s picture. By complete coincidence, two of my buddies (who don’t happen to know each other) have pictures on their accounts that made a perfect little portrait when minimized to the Dock yesterday :