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Happy New Year! I kicked off 2010 by spending a week down in chilly (!) Atlanta, teaching a few design classes at Portfolio Center School. If you’re not familiar with Portfolio Center, you should be. It’s a school for design, art direction, photography, copywriting, illustration and digital media. (It’s also where I attended school… ages […]

We know the holidays are a time when family is in town. And though you’ll have lots to do, it might be a nice investment of time for family that lives far away to sit in front of the computer for a bit and record some stories to be played back after they’ve gone home. […]

We just got notice from Apple that The 12 Days of Christmas — Picture Story Book with Sing-Along Music has been released. Yay! It’s only $0.99. A modern instrumental version of the song accompanies Honey the Hippo and Raphael the Robin as they walk through all twelve days from the classic Christmas carol. Tell your […]

I wish I could say that careful planning led us to having all these kid-focused offerings. The truth is more ‘organic’. We’ve shipped a suite of fun educational apps for toddlers — Hippo Hooray, and we’ve shipped A Story Before Bed, a service that lets parents and grandparents who can’t be near their kids at […]

We’ve put our demos up on YouTube which will make it easier for some folks to watch them and see how grandparents who live far away can stay in touch with their grandchildren using A Story Before Bed. Here’s my dad reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff to my kids.