Modern Atlanta kicks off 2009’s series of modern home tours and design events in Atlanta this week. We’re featured in the MA09 Guidebook that you will receive when you purchase tickets for this weeks home tours and/or Kickoff Party this Friday, the 15th. Buy tickets here. Thanks to MA for placing us alongside ATL’s top design teams and stories. I really like the photo they chose to publish!
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The other day I was sitting through a layover in the Tokyo Narita Airport in Japan when I looked up from playing NBA Live to see a familiar face on CNN. Coach Luma Mufleh and the Fugees Family were being featured on a special about Africa and I was excited for that kind of global exposure for their organization. I wanted to stand up in the middle of the airport and exclaim, “I know her, we worked together!” The website that EC created for them is shown several times in the feature as well. I was floored.
Our feature on Vimby.com just went live! Thanks to Chandler K. for spending the day with us and producing this great piece. Don’t forget to give us a rating!
As Georgios and I were leaving Philips Arena last Friday night, we received a phone call from one of our buddies who was reaching out to us on behalf of the one-and-only, Usher. As crazy as this sounds, he’d previously seen a few PROCESS pieces at Black Sheep in Charlotte last fall and wanted to pick up a few fitted caps and tees directly from us.
It is a huge compliment for someone with his star-power to show support for what we love doing. And it was important for us to deliver the order to his studio in person. He was super-nice as we chopped it up about “the PROCESS” and a few of his future endeavors. Plus, he gladly let me snap a pic of him in his new PROCESS x Estate LA Fitted too!
Since we’re on the subject… I know this is a re-posted song, but it’s one of my favs from the past year:
Jeremy Abernathy from ArtVoices Magazine conducted a phone interview with me back in October, as his coverage of the LeFlash event in Castleberry Hill. The interview was just published in the December issue of this print-only magazine, which has distribution in New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, DC, NYC, LA, and Seattle.
The article mentions Epidemik Coalition and an installation called THE WALL which was featured in Art House Gallery the night of the event. For those who remember, THE WALL is a project I designed which accepts user-submitted images via email and throws them up large-scale in a public space to create a sort of live, electronic, community billboard. Your neighbor’s new baby, an absurd situation in the grocery store, your friends clinking their beer glasses: anything you would photo-blog from your cell phone cam is fair-game for this system that publicizes these images in an outdoor setting. (instead of being stuck in a private setting on your home laptop).
Although brief, the article touches on the point of the project and something all of the EC crew is aiming for: using design to build better and stronger places and people. Until I can get my hands on a copy of the printed magazine to have around the studio, click here to link to the full-page scan of the write-up.
Esper Magazine is a revolutionary web-based, interactive magazine from England. They felt strongly about featuring PROCESS and conducting an interview with yours truly in their premiere issue. Special thanks to Terry, Marc, and the rest of the Esper team for puttin’ us on! Check out our feature here.
The folks at CMYK love our resident photographer Jorge Menes. His portrait of Bruce Turkel and his harmonica has been published in CMYK magazine issue #42. Nice job!
Pick up a copy of the new Vapors Magazine this month and you’ll find PROCESS among other top brands in the Hype Circle section on page 115 and you’ll notice Rob Wonder rocking our Dirty Bird tee in the Hello My Name Is section on page 44. This is a milestone issue for Atlanta because you’ll find a spotlight on Decatur Dan, and articles on DJ Drama and Greg Street.
Copies should hit newsstands this week and are available at Magic in Las Vegas today. You can read it online now here.
Check out the show cards we made for MINT Gallery’s upcoming art show, reMIXT. If you’re lucky enough to get one of these let us know and we’ll send you a surprise.
Last August MINT Gallery opened their current space with MIXT, a show celebrating the relationship between music and visual art through the use of mixtapes. They are doing it again, but this year they are gearing the exhibit to showcase the thriving local music scene in Atlanta. Local artists, including members of Atlanta musical acts such as Judi Chicago, Vera Fang, and Sealions, representatives from Lenny’s Bar as well as singer songwriters and experimental musicians, have contributed to the exhibit.
reMIXT will also feature a local music raffle where one dollar tickets could win you your choice of music and swag provided by local bands.
MINT has put together a playlist of its favorite local music to get you in the mood. Check out mintgalleryremixt.muxtape.com and spread the word.
Artists include: Ben Coleman, Travis Thatcher, Jason Travis, Andre Paraguassu, Sunni Johnson, Mack Williams, Amanda Goodbread, Bean Summer, Robert Peterson, Mat Glaser, Erin Baker, Joe Sikes, Philip Jones, Lindsay Appel, The Sunglasses, Colin Brag, Danielle Harris
EC is all over the new issue of CMYK! They should have just given the cover to Jorge Menes’ photo, Catherine, a Cigarette, and Me. Instead they decided to just let him OWN page 48 of the magazine. Jorge’s quote about his photo is too good:
He says, “The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Believe it or not, this was shot on a normal day in the ‘A“.
I like where your head’s at Jorge! Always reppin’ the A…
If you pick up a copy of the newest CMYK Magazine, you’ll see work by a few familiar names, including EC’s own Georgios Saliaris. Georgios’ publication, Slant Magazine, is one of the few publication designs selected to be featured. For more details on Slant Magazine, head over to the Epidemik Coalition Portfolio.
Georgios called me the other day to tell me that my Blue Fly project was featured in the newest issue of CMYK Magazine, #41. I was surprised because I was starting to think the CMYK gods didn’t like my work! Needless to say, this was a pleasant surprise to be published. Unfortunately, they didn’t publish the project description I submitted a while back where I gave props to my partners on this project, Jessica Sudalnik and Britton Stewart. So I’d like to publicly tell everyone that this was a group project and my partners deserve credit too. For more details, head over to the Epidemik Coalition Portfolio.
A few months ago, Travis Ekmark interviewed us for a Modern Atlanta feature about the increasing number of young people finding entrepreneurship as a viable career path. A few things have changed since our interview. We’ve moved studios and we’ve brought-on new partners whose names are familiar: Ted Ullrich, Ross Martin, and Jorge Menes. Despite the changes, our sentiments towards self-employment remain the same. Read the article on the Modern Atlanta website.
Sopo Bicycle Cooperative is pleased to present their first ever Bicycle Frame Show, a group show of bicycle frames designed on and transformed by local artists and artist collectives. The show is at Green Certified Radial Cafe in Candler Park. Frames are on sale now for $200 each. Unsold and For-Auction-Only frames will be auctioned during the closing reception on Saturday, April 26, between 7 pm and 11 pm. The party features performances by Hot Toddy’s Flaming Cabaret, Atlanta Sedition Orchestra, and Lindsay Appel.
All proceeds benefit Sopo Bicycle Cooperative, your 501(c)3 nonprofit community bicycle repair shop, located in sunny East Atlanta.
It’s always great to participate in fresh, local art shows. We’ve been talking with Rachael Spiewak with Sopobikes.org; helping her brainstorm ideas for this show since last December. Not only did we get the opportunity to do a custom bike frame, but she asked us to design the show poster. Don’t miss out.
My partner in crime, Georgios Saliaris, had his Flow Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival poster selected to be published in CMYK magazine’s December issue!
Click the picture for a full sized view of the work!
See the whole Creative Loafing article by clicking the picture above.
Wow. We’re officially “T-moguls”. Pick up a copy of Creative Loafing this week to see the article featuring EC or click right here.
This is totally awesome, considering all the bands I’ve been in here in the ATL that were never able to get any coverage in this local weekly newspaper. I can definitely cross “Get mentioned in the Loaf” off of my list. Personally, this is really big for me.
Let’s party!
