After signing the letter of intent for New Work City’s space, the first purchase I made was, at first, perhaps an unnecessary one. I got a giant sticker of our logo.

Kendall Schoenrock, founder of LTLprints, has been a friend of the community for a long time— he was one our first (and only) paying customers at CooperBricolage, and introduced us to Richard at Gramstand, a fantastic cafe to work in. We ended up moving the community there and having a lot of great times over the past year there.

So when it came time to get started moving into our new space, I talked to Kendall about getting some signage for the space. Since I didn’t want a sign that was too humongous, Kendall offered to print a bunch of smaller stickers with the remaining material on the sticker sheet. These smaller stickers were indispensable in directing people to our kickoff party (sadly, no photos of this).

As you can see in the photos below, the print really brings character to the space. And thanks to some early testing from Alex at IndyHall, we now know that these suckers are virtually indestructible. If I ever needed to, I could peel this thing off the wall, roll it up, throw it on a wall elsewhere, and have no doubt that it’d work fine.

Thanks Kendall and the LTL Prints team! Best of luck on your launch and success!

This is the first in a series of posts that will recap what we did, learned, and shared throughout the day. So far, every single day has provided us with great new ideas, knowledge, and good times!

- Charlie Oliver brought us cupcakes and signed up her assistant for membership!

- We discussed hours and the membership model, and came up with a really interesting idea for expanding NWC’s operating hours by letting members take shifts to keep the space open during evenings and weekends. Much more on exploring that idea soon!

- Gregory suggested we listen to the Black Keys today; they’re an excellent blues/funk/garage rock band of whom Tony is now a fan.

- We got paid a visit by Dana from NYC Wireless, who fixed the NYCW router in our space and learned about membership. He’ll be returning tomorrow with his team to try it out!

- Electronically introduced Gregory to Muna, a lawyer who works with small businesses and entrepreneurs.

- Fredrick & Tony continued to work on getting the printer back online. Still no dice.

- Whitney suggested we buy a cheap dustbuster instead of doing lots of manual labor sweeping up our new carpet tiles. Good idea!

- Tony showed Gregory & Whitney Behance Notebooks and Action Method Online, much to their enjoyment.

- Whitney echoed earlier discussions on having profile pages for each of the members, which led to:

- Todo: Migrate blog to WordPress & give members author accounts.

- Finally, Whitney took one step further an idea Tony was working on: a regular “recap of the day” post, the first of which you are reading now

- Met Mitch from ExamBuilder.com and talked about membership, usability, and pronk

Much more to come!

Ikea shipment arrived, friends came to help, and before you knew it, we had tables and chairs!

Thanks to Fredrick, Nidhi, Dave, Steve, and JP for coming by to chip in and help out!