Cuban Council -- Superb Digital Solutions

An Introduction to Cuban Council

CUBAN COUNCIL is a digital development agency which specializes in creating simply superb solutions for web & print & such.

Our areas of expertise range from UI, application and various forms of graphic design to iconography, multimedia authoring & complex back-end development.

The main Cuban Council offices are located in San Francisco and in New York, but we provide services for clients across the land & all over the world (we also have rather tiny offices in the fair cities of Los Angeles, Copenhagen and Naperville).

As a group our goal is to design and develop digital solutions that are fun, usable, technically challenging, visually exciting and/or quirky.

If you or your company are looking for assistance with projects of that nature, please use the contact information a little bit further down on this page to get in touch with us.

fidel AT cubancouncil.comCuban Council 461 Second Street, Unit T251 • San Francisco, CA 94107 • USA

The Cuban Council Work

Who We Are

The CUBAN COUNCIL management team is composed of three individuals — toke nygaard, michael schmidt, & michael buzzard.

They are 2 parts Danish, one part born & bred American, 33% bald and together they have worked on everything from huge CMS-controlled digital platforms to minimal independent websites.

Previously, they have all held “normal” jobs within the web industry, but, as so many before them, over the years they got tired of being stuck in the inner machinery of large bureaucracies. As a result of this Cuban Council was born in the summer of 2001.

Mouseover a name to the right for a photo & blurb.

toke nygaard

creative director
t[at]cubancouncil.com

michael schmidt

createch director
m[at]cubancouncil.com

miguelito buzzard

code curator, presidente´
src[at]cubancouncil.com

juan añorga

designer/developer
juan[at]cubancouncil.com

tara cyphers

account director/project wrangler
tara[at]cubancouncil.com

anna arbuckle

creative director
anna[at]cubancouncil.com

chris forrette

developer
chris[at]cubancouncil.com

dana steffe

designer
dana[at]cubancouncil.com

sougwen chung

senior designer
sougwen[at]cubancouncil.com

Toke Nygaard: Likes the smell of leather & listening to old Dad Jazz on Sundays. Loathes the sound of people eating in commercials.

Michael Schmidt: Likes tattoos, comic books, Neil Gaiman, Jeff Noon, classic cars, and probably you. But not necessarily in that order.

Miguelito Buzzard: Likes IBM thinkpads MacBook Pros, travel, clean code and rainy sunny San Francisco afternoons.

Juan Añorga: Likes math, Ironbeer, 92% pure cocoa and warm Los Angeles afternoons. Loathes the smell of peanuts on airplanes.

Tara Cyphers: Likes rock and roll, scrummy puppies, traveling and good coffee. Hates cold weather and mean people.

Anna Arbuckle: Likes minimal German music, and very square designs. Hates the smell of Manhattan in August.

Chris Forrette: Loves Vitamin Water™, spreads happiness like warm peanut butter, strives to make the Interweb a better place for us all.

Dana Steffe: Likes growing vegetables, Michigan in the summer, poppy music & baby animals. Dislikes polyester & stand-up comedy.

Sougwen Chung: Likes drawing patterns, drawing people, drawing parallels. Not fond of pundits, peanut butter, predictable narratives.

How To Contact Us

Book Mentions
• 100% Creativity
• 55 Degrees North
• Design for Community
• Flash 99% Good
• Fresh Styles ...
• IdN Iconography
• IMG SRC 100
• Now Loading ...
• Personal Web Sites
• Taking Your Talent ...
• USER
• Web Design That Works

Bits & Pieces
• Adobe Go!Web CD
• Ars Electronica 2001
• Codex Series 3
• IdN Fresh Conference
• MyCity Festival
• Pandæmonium Festival

Magazine Features
• Cre@te Online #11
• Graphics International
• HOW Magazine
• IdN Magazine Vol. 8 #2
• Impress Magazine #27
• iSh Magazine Vol. 3 #3
• Lab Magazine #1
• Reboot Magazine #1

Also mentioned in:
Cap & Design, Cre@te Online, Creative Review, Dazed & Confused, eDesign, IdN Magazine, Impress, The Independent, MacWorld, MacUp, Mute, New Media Creative, New York Times, RES, Time Out, Web Creators, Web Designing, Wallpaper*, Wired, et al.

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CC News

10/11/09 iBend 2.0, the artist series
05/22/09 Jobs All Around!
01/14/09 New interview
12/16/08 Bend it like iBend

10/11/09
We're very excited to announce that we just released the next version of the iBend store along with the new artist series products from artists Michael Bartalos, Vicki Wong (MEOMI) and Joshua Davis. Tip: use promo code CUBANTEN to receive 10% off any artist series products.