Here’s a peek at something special we created in conjunction with our favorite supporters over the past year. Our first year has flown by and we’ve gotten to work with some amazing people. Thanks guys!

I’m particularly excited about this tee as it marks the first intensely-rendered, type-based graphic we’ve done for the PROCESS line. These tees will be available for one night only at our 1st Anniversary Throwdown at Graveyard Tavern. Peep the flyer after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve teamed up with STANDARD to sponsor their yearly NCAA Basketball Bracket Pick ‘Em Contest. There will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes for the people with the highest scoring bracket.

1st place will receive a pair of Sneakers from STANDARD, a Spring ‘10 PROCESS T-shirt and a PROCESS Fitted.

3rd place will receive a Spring ‘10 PROCESS T-shirt.

To enter, all you have to do is go to Yahoo and join the Standard group, Click Here! Remember you need to have a Yahoo username and password. So if you don’t, take 2 minutes and set one up. Our Group ID is: 29834 and our Password is: 1234. Be sure to allow others to see your email when you are setting up your team so we can contact the winners at the end. Don’t worry the Standard staff or Process crew winning. Should that happen, the prize will go down to the next highest scoring person. We’re just in this for bragging rights.

This is been a long time coming… Another collaboration with El Bar Atlanta, pays homage to one of the most loved and infamous streets in town, Ponce De Leon, better known as PONCE if you’re a local. You’ll be sure to find ourselves or some of our very good friends enjoying themselves all up and down Ponce De Leon on any given night; especially at El Bar.

These caps are manufactured by Estate L.A. and will be released very soon. Sit tight kiddos!

Dem Rehab Boyz are back on the road and bassist Hano Leathers shows off what they’ll be living in for the next two months. Follow their twitter to see what hijinx they get into all over the USA.

The Champion of our Fantasy Football League, Alan Woodruff, sent me this photo of himself and our beloved trophy. The subject line: “Only 6 more months…”

Not cool bro.

Fresh outta the slammer into your earholes [via the blogosphere]. Welcome back Rubber Band Man. Now it’s time to do something about that horrible acronym-based clothing line of yours. Yea I said it… If you have the means, you should hire some folks who know what they’re doing. It’s hurting your personal brand more than helping it. Call me… we’ll get a GrindHouse burger and play some FIFA (or NBA Live). We’ll hash it all out in an afternoon.

Download: T.I. - I’m Back

The usual suspects (Dax, Zach Wolfe, and Sumner) are at it again with another Big Boi video that’s destined for virality. Nice work again boys!

Photo by Ryan Purcell aka OhSnapKid.com

Our crew’s favorite Dubstep DJ, Mayhem, puts his unique twist on 8Ball & MJG’s track, Ten Toes Down. I love listening to his live sets, because he always finds a great way to incorporate some Dirty South flavor into them; as you can tell from this remix.

Download: 8Ball & MJG (feat. Lil Boosie) - Ten Toes Down (Mayhem Remix)

Today, Ross and I played a friendly match of soccer (football) on PS3. Netherlands v. Hamburger SV on FIFA 10. After this spin move, Ross decided he didn’t want to play against me for the rest of the afternoon. I love being able to take an afternoon off to grab lunch with a good friend and kick his butt at some FIFA.

Kanye West posted the Cyhi Da Prynce - Studda & I’m 100 video on his blog today… a little behind the curve this time, Kanye! ATL is strong. Start paying attention, sir.

…on American Idol! For a brief moment this week, we caught a glimpse of our boy, Joe Martinez, from the “our contestants come from a wide range of backgrounds” montage on American Idol. Joe says, ”I’m a photographer”. And a damn good one too!

Unfortunately, we won’t be seeing him go on in the competition, but it was somewhat gratifying to see a glimpse of Mr. Martinez; especially since we waited in countless lines all summer long last year.

Name:
Skylar Morgan

Aka:  
doc.

Website:
www.smf-d.com
www.docbuilt.com

Where are you from?
Miles City, Montana

Who do you work for? 
I own two furniture companies, Skylar Morgan Furniture + Design (SMFD) and doc.

What are your Current Project(s)? 
New West Egg, White Provision, Ormsby’s Pub, Office Furniture for Armchair Media, Dining Table and Chairs, and Product Additions for doc.

Who would you love to work with?
e15 and Hans Wagner

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
My hunter green Toms.

What’s on your iPod right now?
Avett Brothers and Ryan Adams

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
JCT and Serpas True Food

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
Ormsby’s Pub

What are your Pet Peeves?
Butterfly patches and air guitar.

Shout outs?
Shea at Intrinsic Architecture, Stephanie at State Design Co., Rob at Coalition Society, and Jesse at SMFD

Deftones - The Acoustic Experiment by Eric Dewyngaert

Some of you know that I’ve been teaching a class at Portfolio Center over the past few months. This has been a new experience for me, as I’ve never taught before and it was only a few years ago that I was a student at PC. In my time away from the academic world, I started to miss it. Not only is teaching a chance to “drop-knowledge”, but I find it invigorating and refreshing. Perhaps I’m a huge design geek, but I enjoy talking about design with people who aren’t jaded with the industry. Rather, they are eager to excel at visual communication.

The name of the class is Entertainment Design (a broad name for “The Album Cover Class”). We focus on concept, branding, and typography for artists in the music industry; with the deliverables being album covers, packaging, posters, and various other marketing items. In the 1.5 quarters I’ve taught so far, we’ve had a live project for a major label artist and several guest presentations from my friends who work in the design industry.

I’m putting myself in the mindset of a student (which isn’t hard considering I used to go to school there) and trying to make this class-scenario a “dream class” for anyone with an open mind. If my homework assignments consisted of listening to music, going to the record store, and sketching (sober of course), I would have been more than happy to go above and beyond the call.

I don’t have many examples of student work coming out of my class because most students choose to photograph their packaging towards the end of their student careers. I was able to get one of my students (and new EC web-intern), Eric Dewyngaert, to send me a photo of his album packaging. It’s a new approach to The Deftones, titled “The Acoustic Experiment”. He asked himself, “What would happen if one of the hardest bands out there created an acoustic album?” He was able to track down live-acoustic performances of some of their most popular songs which were sonically peculiar and very intense. As you can see, Eric’s visual-reveal is what I envision being the result of many long recording sessions. Very cool.

Given that the name of the class is Entertainment Design, we may shift our focus in coming quarters to film and other performance arts, although I have a feeling that most of my students get a kick out of discovering new bands and listening to music as homework.

Also, there’s always an open invite to my buddies who want to drop in and give honest feedback! C’mon down…

Check out Don Cannon rocking a Process Love & War shirt at 0:11. Shouts to Joe for the heads up!