We help recently funded and bootstrapped startups find the right branding and design to help them launch the company they dream of being.We pride ourselves on working with really passionate, big-idea companies, who care about their customers and want to design for them first. Ginkgo Bioworks. Branding/Identity. Web Design. Photography.

Video ProductionOur old friends at Ginkgo Bioworks came to us, needing to up their professional game. The branding we'd made for them a few years ago was in need a refresher – they wanted to start playing with the big boys in the industry, and we wanted to help them look like they belonged there.We spent a couple weeks planning the video production & photography, the identity update, and the website, and in a couple short months we put together an entire new system for them to work with, and a video showing off who they are and what they do best. The Allotment UK.

Branding/Identity. Custom Branding GuideBen, the founder of the premier editing studio The Allotment over in the UK, found us when he was in need of a new identity. He was in an interested position – he needed to upgrade his image, but only wanted to appeal to his current clients, the likes of BBC, Channel 4, and a handful of other presitigous producers he already worked with.So we came up with a visual identity system – complete with custom-designed Branding Guide – to help keep his voice, image, and client base consistent, while upping the level of professionalism he was dishing out. The League of Moveable Type. Branding/Identity.

Good Food, Good Times, Good CompanyEnjoy casual American fare at a Downtown Appleton Landmark. Nan Sorella'sFeatures an extensive wine list with selections from around the world. Pullman'sGreat view, unique menu, outstanding service!

Web Design. Content Marketing. Business ConsultingThe League of Moveable Type is extremely near and dear to our hearts – we started it back in 2009, and it's grown far beyond it's humble beginnings since then, with a growing following and business to match.We periodically work with The League to upgrade their branding, develop real content and design, and help them build up their business. It's a tight partnership, and we're always working on new things, including a few exciting things to come later this year. We're proud to be there.

Good timing™. Branding/Identity. Web Design. UI Design. Backend DevelopmentWe frequently experiment with our own ideas & side projects, and one of the most recent was good timing™ – a way to keep calculate our hours after we'd already forgotten to track them.We've always found it tough to track time; you start working with the intention of doing something important, but have to take yourself out of it before you start, to turn on a timer, and to turn it off when you're done.

Instead, maybe we can just recount what happens at the end the day, and have the computer do the work of figuring out how much time we worked on what.It being our own side project, we got to develop the identity, the UI, and actually develop the thing ourselves. It's still in development, but it's been useful so far. Lemon Lime Agency. UI Design.

Backend DevelopmentOne of our longest-standing clients has been a small talent agency in Los Angeles that represents unique commercial actors. We've worked together consistently for years, updating and upgrading their site when it needs it.Most recently, we developed an integrated, custom backend service so that their clients can keep their acting & modeling profiles – headshots, measurements, contact information, etc. – up to date, any time they need to, which has saved countless hours and let their clients feel more in control and current. Lego minifigures online game download.

A Good Portfolio. Branding/Identity. Web Design.

UI Design. Backend DevelopmentOn top of helping our clients make their businesses work, we've made a few of our own. Our experience in backend programming and serious development have given us the resources to make a few tools of our own, and this is our oldest one.We've run it consistently since starting A Good Company in 2009, and we've got thousnads of customers showing off amazing work of their own.We maintain all the branding, development, and design to make sure A Good Portfolio stays awesome. A Few Other of Our Amazing Clients.

NBCUniversal. Mozilla. Metalab. Librato. Heroku.

The Republican Party Of California. Massive Health. Public Radio Exchange.

Lemon Lime. Readmill. Sasha VanHoven. iconi.co.

moneybox.me. Kyleen James. Literati.me. goodtiming.co.

Clear-Media, Inc. Entagled Media Corp.

Fellow Craft. Future Publishing. Genefoo, Inc. LA River Corporation.

Openstudy. Thunderbolt Labs.

WND, Inc. Applied Minds, Inc. Curbly. Mobile Commons. Invent Communications.

Zivity. GiraffeSoft. DIYBio. Adverts4Autos.

During the Industrial Revolution, company towns—communities built by businesses—sprouted up across the country. For anyone who wants to tour what remains of them today, it’s helpful to remember two things. First, as Hardy Green, author of, says, these places ranged from the awful to the enviable. Towns built by coal companies, for example, were often more on the prison camp end of the spectrum in terms of poverty and abuse.

Meanwhile, settlements like Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by the Hershey chocolate company, were meant to be closer to paradise—to woo workers with fancy amenities rather than mistreat them.Second, as Green explains, to speak about company towns in the past tense is to overlook that they still exist. The original coal and textile towns in America are now largely ghostly, but places like Hershey and Corning, New York, which was invigorated by the Corning glass company, are still going strong. Plus, businesses such as Google and Facebook today are providing housing, amenities and transportation for their workers—meaning that while we think of company towns in sepia tones, they’re also in digital blue.Historically, textile towns popped up in the early 19th century in New England, then migrated to the Carolinas after the Civil War. The post-Civil-War era also saw coal towns spread out by way of the railroad boom, and towns founded by steel companies followed a similar route.Although some businesses offered idyllic-looking settings, a bevy of companies once made than from what they mined or produced.

During the boom in textile, coal, steel and other industries, workers often earned what’s called scrip instead of real money: a kind of credit they couldn’t spend anywhere but the company store, where prices were often higher than elsewhere. Companies in these places often required that workers live in barebones company housing and send their kids to company-built schools, where the boss’s perspective was king.In all, there have been about 2,000 company towns across the U.S., from harsh places of abuse to picturesque communities. Read on for a visit to five iconic locations. (Walter Bibikow/JAI/Corbis)The first truly planned company town was Lowell, Massachusetts. In the early 19th century, Francis Cabot Lowell, a merchant from Boston, visited factories in England the technology he saw there.

His pilfered ideas helped lay the groundwork for new textile production in Massachusetts, where, in the 1820s, a few years after Lowell’s death, a small group of capitalists founded Lowell—what Green calls “America’s first large-scale planned industrial community.”As with many of the business-built towns that would come later, Lowell’s location is based largely on its proximity to natural resources: in this case, a waterfall to power the looms. When it came to that other necessary resources—workers—Lowell’s founders recruited from rural areas. Once at Lowell, they lived in boardinghouses and were required to attend church and lead a “moral” life. Age of wonders 3 specializations. Factory bells at 4:30 in the morning—and within 20 minutes, they had to be at the mill.

In the mid-1830s, protests began, echoed later by several other company towns across the country.Today, visitors can explore the. At the, looms run “at top speed, allowing visitors to feel the buzz of a working mill.” The museum, whose weave room is pictured above, calls itself one of the largest industrial history exhibits in the nation. The historical boardinghouse for Lowell’s first workers stands nearby, also part of the park.