When our friends at the Chicago Architecture Foundation asked us to present at the Inaugural Association of Architecture Organizations (AAO) & Architecture + Design Education Network (A+DEN) Conference we were super stoked. Then, when they asked us to give it on emerging social media, we were like “Heck Yeah!”
We started with the basics like “What [...]

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As much as we love the Rodney Dangerfield classic, we at Stalelife, Inc. believe that education is always important and continuing…including for us. Yes, we’ve gone back to school, taking night classes at the wonderful School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Our first class is Object Design: Sketch and Illustration (Tumblr Blog) and is taught [...]

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We’ll show you how.
For the second year in a row I will be attending the SXSW conference in Austin Texas. I collected a lot of information last year to help me make the most of what is a massive, sprawling, 10 day conference. I also met some great people last year, some of which I [...]

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“Wow, cool chart – it’s got a slider. How much do I need to retire?”

“Wait, this slider isn’t working. I’m grabbing the art off the page. WTH?”
It would have been the bee’s knees to manipulate that sliding chart on the homepage, after all I was just there to get into our checking account. This was [...]

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Picture this… two Stalelifers walk to a big meeting to propose alternative marketing ideas to The Chicago Tribune. Along the way, on Lower Wacker Drive, one of the pair sees a wallet lying on the ground.
Joe: “Kurt, check this out, someone dropped a wallet.”
Kurt: “No way, is there an ID?”
Sure enough, there was an ID. [...]

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