Apperceptive is: 1. Conscious perception with full awareness.
2. The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are
related to past experience. 3. A design and technology consultancy in New York City.
Apperceptive LLC was formed in 2006 by John Emerson and David Jacobs after two years of collaboration. The partners each bring over ten years experience designing and developing database applications, websites, printed materials, and motion graphics for Fortune 500 companies and leading civil society organizations.
To read more about our team, click a name to the right.
John Emerson
John is an activist, graphic designer, writer, and programmer. His writing about graphic design has been published in
Communication Arts and
Print, featured in
Metropolis Magazine and
The Wall Street Journal, and translated into Italian by the Italian Association of Graphic Designers. John has spent equal time in the worlds of media (Condé Nast and Time-Warner) and advocacy (as Web Director at both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.)
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David Jacobs
David served as the Director of Technology and Distribution at MediaRights, growing the web site from ten thousand visits a month to millions a year. Creative Commons acclaimed David as a “Featured Commoner,” for MediaRights’ production of the the 2004 “Media That Matters Film Festival,” which won the South By Southwest award for Best website by a non-profit. As a consultant David has worked extensively with Nokia, Six Apart and iVillage.
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Steve Cook
Steve has almost a decade of experience building web applications for commercial, non-profit, and government clients. From feed readers in Perl to top level domain registration systems in PHP to bookmarklets in JavaScript, he gets disparate systems talking to one another to make applications more powerful and user experiences more seamless.
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Matt Jacobs
Matt is a CSS, HTML, and web standards guru with a background in non-profit work. As Interactive Marketing Manager at Jewish National Fund he engineered a complete site redesign and facilitated an increase in yearly online donations from $675 thousand to nearly $3 million. He has actively developed and published weblogs for seven years.
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Mike Kania
Mike is fluent in both client-side and server-side programming. In his years working at America Online, he worked on numerous projects ranging from a the redesign and rearchitecture of Netscape.com to conceptual prototypes in JavaScript/XML of the next AOL client.
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Natalie Podrazik
Natalie is a recent grad who chews up puzzles and spits out elegant solutions in the form of C and Perl code. Pulling work experiences from Microsoft and the Department of Defense, she is a developer with an eye for efficient design, meaningful content, and universal user-friendly accessibility.
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Ginevra Whalen
Ginevra is a jill-of-all-trades, but master at turning geekspeak into layperson's terms. As business and community manager at Six Apart, she was integral to client success and satisfaction with programs like TypePad Business Class and Movable Type Enterprise.
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Tracie Lee
Tracie is a web designer and artist who has been involved in the industry for over seven years. She is equally versed in the intricacies of CSS and Flash as she is with whipping up designs. Her mission is to create sites that are beautifully designed, elegantly built and a joy to use. Tracie recently worked on Planet Billard, which won a 2007 Webby People's Voice Award for Best Personal Website. Her current favorite web font is Georgia.
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David Raynes
David is well known in the Movable Type community for his plugin development. His SubCategories plugin was integrated into the core product as of version 3.1, and his award winning MultiBlog plugin has been integrated into the latest release of Movable Type Enterprise. A number of his plugins have been identified as essential for Movable Type by members of Six Apart's professional network. He is a co-author of the book,
Hacking Movable Type.
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Sudama Adam Rice
Adam loves the Web. He has been designing and developing websites for fourteen years, and blogging for nine. As Manager of Information Technology and Operations, he transformed the American Institute of Biological Sciences' web publishing workflow, enabling non-technical staff to directly update the organization's websites. He has extensive soup-to-nuts experience building elegant, user-focused websites with Movable Type.
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