Check out the newly re-launched PlywoodPeople.com website designed by Epidemik Coalition. They wanted a website that allowed them to tell their intriguing stories (via a user-updated blog) and more importantly, to sell the goods created by the people in the stories. We created a structure that allowed them to customize the site and determine where different types of information will go. Check out their site, and revisit it often, as the content changes and evolves rapidly! While you’re visiting, pick up some fair trade goods for the holidays!

Check out the newest addition to the EC portfolio, an online photography portfolio for our cohort, Jorge Menes. Once again, we employed a proprietary navigation platform that we developed especially for designers and photographers who want to showcase their work seamlessly in full-screen. Visit jorgemenes.com

This week marked the end of a great project we did for FINN Jewelry here in New York.
EC was part of a great team assembled to give this hip jewelry company a fresh identity and new web digs.

I just wrapped development on the FINN Jewelry website. Checkout their beautiful products! The website includes some fun interactive elements that show the spirit of FINN’s creators, Soraya Silchenstedt and Candice Pool. Photography is by Alexi Lubomirski, photographer from Future Digital, another EC branding and web project. Design by Epidemik Coalition and Black Rose NYC.

Today, the StandardATL.com website relaunched with simplified navigation and the Listen Up section that I’ve been contributing to now occupies some prime real estate on the site. Bookmark the page and head over to the site often to not only find out about great gear to wear, but to stay up on music issues myself and the rest of the crew find interesting. And as always, leave comments!

Ted and I recently added finishing tweaks and updates to Jamie Hopper’s photography portfolio site, JamieHopper.com. Head over there to check out the new interface, as well as a bunch of new Fashion and Editorial shots by one of our favorite local photographers.

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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.

ATL’s best interior design company, Habachy Designs, came to Epidemik Coalition needing a new website. After a few meetings at their downtown Atlanta office, which has an amazing view of the city, we quickly had wireframes and site-structure in hand. It was only a matter of days to implement everything and get it live. It was a pleasure working with Michael and Evan on this project and we’re looking forward to future EC/Habachy collaborations.

We just finished redesigning the Fugees Family website. Their unique story has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, NPR, and Sports Illustrated. I can’t say enough for the organization and what they do for refugee families. Head over to fugeesfamily.org to find out more. It was a pleasure to work with Luma Mufleh and the rest of the Fugees Family organization on this project. Head over to their new site, and donate if you’re down with the cause.

A while back, I mentioned this project as we had just completed designing the mark for Yaari.com’s rebrand. Since this project was deeply a social-networking site with lots of bulk, EC was challenged with making hierarchical decisions on content as well as coding the CSS for the newly relaunched Yaari.com. After handing over our comps, we’ve been anxious to see the results over the past few months. It’s great to see our work come to life. That’ll never get old.

There are a few new websites we’ve recently completed that are about to launch very soon. Stay tuned for updates!

Son & Sons, the creative agency of Wade Thompson in New York, came to me the other week in anticipation of their new site launch. Wade needed help with creating an interactive splash page embodying the attitude of Son & Sons: thoughtful, fun, and innovative.

Using solely my voice in a C-Major chord with an added sixth (C-E-G-A), I brought life to the landscape of ‘refrigerator magnets’ spelling out the Son & Sons mantra. Spell your own and listen to your creation!

For the new year 2009, Future Digital LLC’s website just went live. Epidemik Coalition designed and developed the site for this boutique fashion photography company based in New York City.

This wraps-up the branding project started in the fall which included other elements such as business cards, custom silk-screened DVDs, laser-cut stencils, and more.

Can’t wait to see what 2009 has in-store for these folks!

Friend of EC and Atlanta-based designer Mick Bailey recently launched his very own online magazine called Commuter Culture Magazine. I caught wind of this school-project-turned-online-masterpiece last month and have been checking it regularly since.

Mick describes the vision behind the online magazine as showcasing people and communities have a unique way of doing what we all deal with everyday: commuting. Whether that manifests itself in reporting on a customized surfer van, a world-class bicycle culture, or a story about national ridership trends on rail lines, this site covers real info. Aside from sporting a great visual design, the attitude and content of the online magazine is both unique for Atlanta and very topical in this woeful post-2008 America. Quality-over-quantity rules here, as each post is written as an article with carefully gathered or custom-designed imagery.

I’m interested to see where this haven for a good attitude towards commuting goes!

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.