About Us
Sprocket House is…
Nathan D Huening, whom the University of Texas graduated as a Bachelor of Nutrition Science.
For a while he taught college physics while moonlighting as a professional chef. He can both juggle clubs and ride a unicycle, but not at the same time. It is not entirely clear how any of this relates to technology and design. Presently, he serves at the pleasure of the Triangle Usability Professional Association’s Executive Council as Director of Marketing.
Responsibilities
- information design & architecture
- sales & marketing
- project management
- copywriting
- art direction
- coding & development
- graphic design
Nerd Gear
- iPhone
- 8GB Silver (1st Gen.)
- VW Jetta
- 2004 TDI (Red)
- MacBook
- 15" Pro (Matte)
Chris Jones, whom the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University graduated as a Bachelor of Computer Science.
Though he wrote C and C++ in college, he has since coded almost exclusively for the web. After spending several years in a miserable PHP-induced coma, he finally woke up and discovered the programming bliss of Ruby and Rails. He is one of the, like, four people on the planet who truly believe JavaScript is a great language and that the DOM just ruins it for everyone. Presently, you can find him tinkering with Ruby, functional programming, and context-free grammars.
Responsibilities
- coding & development
- information design & architecture
- project management
- art direction
- graphic design
- copywriting
- sales & marketing
Nerd Gear
- iPhone
- 8GB Silver (1st Gen.)
- VW Jetta
- 2002 GLS (Black)
- MacBook
- 15" Pro (Matte)
Denielle Lincoln, whom the North Carolina State University graduated as a Master of Graphic Design.
Teaching graphic design and advanced typography in an intimate hands-on studio environment at Peace College currently makes her quite happy. She enjoys balancing the teaching of design with its practice and believes that her active design career necessarily rounds out the classroom experience. Statistically speaking, your odds of finding her with the same desktop background image on successive days approaches zero. Presently, you can find her as an active member of the Raleigh AIGA and NAWBO communities.
Responsibilities
- graphic design
- art direction
- project management
- sales & marketing
- information design & architecture
- copywriting
- coding & development
Nerd Gear
- iPhone
- 8GB Black (3G)
- VW Jetta
- 2009 TDI—pending
- MacBook
- 15" Pro (Matte)
Wherefore ‘Sprocket’? Whither ‘House’?
You’ll find our little office in a charming brick building called the Franklin Center which, at various and sundry times over the last hundred years, has been home to the JB Robbins House of Fashion, Town Hall Bar & Grill, and Pickwick Theatre—of which the latter was the first in town to feature what we call “talkies”. It closed in 1947.
Our suite is housed on the second floor in what used to be the theater’s projection room and, as you’ll recall, the small squares on either side of a 35mm film strip are called “sprocket” holes. (Occasionally, Mr Durden joins us for afternoon tea and counterculture insurgency hour.) Sprockets are also a kind of gear and they’re employed to make things work.
‘House’ because it's a two-level office, joined by a small staircase. You know, like a house.
Also, it’s easy to spell and the domain was available.