Stalino: an interactive documentary and podcast with dekoder
Often a look into the past helps us better understand the present: This week, the dekoder team launched Stalino, the second part of their WW2 special. The...
Member interview with Leslie Büttel
Member interview with Leslie Büttel Leslie joined us as a web developer in September 2025—about time we finally found out who this designer-turned-developer...
Potatoes galore!
Hey Berliners,you got the potatoes, we have matching recipes! How come? Well, in our recent job posting, we asked candidates to send us their favorite potato...
Cooperative gift guide (DE/EU edition)
Dear readers,unsurprisingly, we love to support worker-owned and cooperative businesses over here at Village One … so we thought it might be nice to share a...
Join the team: Web dev with Craft CMS experience!
Hey everyone,there are rarely open positions at Village One, but we do have one now: We just published a job posting for a web developer with Craft CMS...
Glimpses of a portfolio
Hey there, readers!When we started Village One three years ago, we made a bet: that by founding a radically progressive studio, we’d attract similarly...
A crack in the present
Dear readers of this little dispatch, This is Fei, writing you probably for the last time as a Village One co-op member. But before we get into that, let me...
Member interview with Meg Krawielitzki
Almost five months ago, Meg joined us as a digital designer, and from day one, it has felt like she's always been part of the team! Meg will soon become an...
Bits, bobs and co-ops
Bits, bobs and co-ops—a news round-up from the world of cooperatives A flurry of cooperative-related news stories flickered across our screens recently and...
A new digital home for PLATTE.Berlin, the next-gen fashion hub
Hey there,Julia here, with a project update! Last week we launched a new website for PLATTE.Berlin, a non-profit community hub for the next generation of...
New year, new villager joining!
First of all, happy New Year, everyone! Let’s start our first newsletter in 2025 with the exciting news that Meg Krawielitzki is joining us as a new digital...
One chapter ends, the next one begins
Greetings dear readers! While you are hopefully all getting some well-deserved rest between the years, we’ve got some last-minute news to share: At the end...
Newsflash—everything else
Hey there, it’s Harry again, welcome to part 2 of our newsflash—last time we looked at our project work, now we turn our attention to everything else that...
Newsflash—what we’ve been working on
Heya, this is Harry, checking in from the village. It’s been a while that we appeared in your inbox: Unfortunately we haven’t managed to write a newsletter...
“Best team event ever!”
“Best team event ever!” We had the pleasure of spending a day at Erik Spiekermann’s letterpress workshop, printing posters together, on historic machines,...
We’re hiring a digital designer!
Hello, hello, this newsletter is possibly our shortest ever—straight to the point: We’re hiring a digital designer! This position is 100% remote, full...
Europe Talks—meet a fellow European for an unlikely conversation
Hey there, this is Harry and today I’m here to tell you about a wonderful initiative: It’s called Europe Talks and it’s a simple way to have a conversation...
A new brand and website for YouthPolicy.org
About a year ago, we received an incredibly nice email from Andreas Karsten, the CEO of Youth Policy Labs (YPL), which began: Dear Village Onesies, my name...
Quality time as a distributed team
Hey there, let’s start this newsletter with a hard truth: Building connection and having fun together is tough as a distributed team. That’s why, usually...
“Der Krieg und seine Opfer”—creating an online documentary with dekoder.org
A few months back, Leonid A. Klimov from dekoder.org proposed an ambitious project: launching an online documentary series that tells the overlooked stories...
