For a while now we have been wanting to interview one of jovoto’s most active early birds – the HighlandBagpiper! According to all the positive feedback the HighlandBagpiper gets, we believe that not only we are huge fans of him and his artwork but that many of his fellow early birds want to get [...]

The jury had to take a very difficult decision this morning in Berlin: from the TOP 10 logos, chosen by jovoto’s community, the jury finally picked the logo for Creative City Berlin. After a couple of rounds, it came down to two logos with a tie: empuls’ skyline and lefelmann’s creative city circles. Since the [...]

Since it is much healthier to work seated on a sitting ball, our collegue Daniel organized one of those.
Due to the lack of an air pump, Daniel had to train his lungs today:

It looks like hard work, but I have to say that he was a tad happier afterwards as well ;)

Last week, a couple of journalists from the German TV station n-tv visited our office and shot the following documentary on young start-ups and of course jovoto:
http://www.n-tv.de/1057383.html
It’s in German only, too bad for our non-German readers. And: Yes, it IS absolutely weird to see oneself on TV.

Pic: Oliver Kurmis | http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernseher

Tonight at 12pm Creative City Berlin’s logo and claim contest will be completed. By next week, the six winners will be decided and the ten best submissions will be viewed by a Berlin-based jury who will then pick their favorite logo to represent Creative City Berlin’s website.
The jury consists of:
Ares Kalandides, Create Berlin
Reinhard Knobelspies, Studio [...]

There must be a reason why there are so many songs about Mondays:
The Bangles: Manic Monday
The Boomtown Rats: I don’t like Mondays…
The Mamas & The Papas: Monday Monday
Somehow the topic hip hop is present at jovoto ever since one of our developers (Daniel) declared out of the blue that he doesn’t want to have any [...]

Last week has been really exciting for all of the community, the ideas got countless last minute ratings before Deutsche Bahn AG’s Sustainability Contest was closed on Friday at midnight. It took jovoto’s team most of the weekend to check if everything was running smoothly.
Today we spent the whole morning discussing how to proceed and [...]

As many may know, jovoto was born in the UdK Berlin with the principle of giving a fair and fun entrance to young creatives to the walled garden of design and advertising.
One of our aims in Germany and specially in Berlin has been to get in touch with all the art and design schools, to [...]