As we celebrate our 25th year, we decided to look back at what makes VDT so great—our talented and diverse staff. Below, find results of our informal survey, asking the tough questions from “What’s your favorite LaCroix flavor?“ to “What are you currently binging on Netflix?” (Just ignore how nonsensical those questions would sound in 1994.)

Keep reading to learn more about the DNA of VDT.

Our Interiors team selected their favorite chairs of the year
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Go ahead and kick back and relax.

Clique
Photo Courtesy of StudioTK

NYC Wrapover
Photo Courtesy of Stylex

BuzziFloat
Photo Courtesy of BuzziSpace

KIIK S126
Photo Courtesy of Arper

Caffeine in the AM, and three ways to relax in the PM.
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Don’t worry—we save the beers until after submittals are due.

Coffee
With 350 cups drank per day, coffee is the preferred morning pick-me-up.

Drinks
After work, 41% of staffers opt to grab a beer at happy hour. (And one lone staffer is grabbing a cider.)

TV Shows
Who needs HBO GO? “Stranger Things“ kept the staff glued to their screens more than any other TV show.

Sports
They’re not always first in their division, but they’re first in our hearts—33% of staffers are Bears fans.

We go through 12 cases (144 cans) of LaCroix a week!
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Our favorite LaCroix flavor? Pamplemousse. What does that mean? We couldn’t begin to tell you.

The favorite place our staffers have traveled?
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With roughly 30 locations submitted, the City of Light edged out Italy, New Zealand, and Japan.

Foodie (& Principal) Louis Ray shares his top Chicago restaurants
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Pizza? Steak? Or something lighter? Check out these top spots!

• Momotaro

• Pequod’s Pizza

• Roister

• Fat Rice

• Gibson’s

• Monteverde

Favorite public art piece, according to Media-Objectives
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Call it bias, but Art on theMart is the top choice for our staff.