Our buddy Jordan Gunter has spent over a year helping to plan this event that will take place at Eyedrum on Friday, August 15th.

Get Off The Street is a celebration of bike culture. Highlights of this one night only event include performances by Zoroaster, All The Saints, Diamond Jackie, Bike Contests and Art inspired by the culture of bicycles. The night will commence at 8:00 pm and tickets are $7.00 a person or $5 if you ride your bike to the event. Music starts at 9:00pm.

This is for all the designers out there who’ve always wanted to design sneakers. Here’s a chance to design a Nike Dunk and face-off against others. Head over to the newly launched Nike Sportswear website for the Kicks Creator and other cool features.

To our NYC family & friends, please attend this event and take some pictures on this historic day. It’s a series of art-based youth workshops taught by world-renowned influences of DIY culture including Eric Elms, KAWS, and personal favorite, Ed Templeton. Produced in conjunction with the theatrical release of the documentary Beautiful Losers.

photos by Ross Martin

Atlanta DJ crew, Nite Ratz, asked us for a series of portraits that could be used on various applications such as club flyers, posters, mix tapes, and social-networking profile photos. Here’s a look at some of the final production photos of the Nite Ratz by Ross Martin. For full sized images, check out the Epidemik Coalition Portfolio.

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.

If you live in Atlanta and use MySpace or Facebook you’ve probably seen illustrations like this on a friend’s profile and have asked, “What’s the deal with those drawings?”

Well, I don’t know all the details, but I do know the illustrations are by Dosa Kim for his Apparatus ATL project. If you check out the Apparatus ATL website or MySpace page you’ll see a slew of Atlantan’s illustrated similarly. These people consist of promoters, drink pushers, club owners, musicians, bouncers, hipsters, store owners, photographers, DJs, and of course… everyone’s favorite graphic designers.

I know there’s a possibility of an art show, a multimedia presentation, and even vinyl toys created around the ATL scene. I also know the project is launching in September. Dosa’s camp has asked me to come by this week to discuss how I can help with the launch so I’ll have more to report soon.

photos by Ted Ullrich

We moved into a new studio in downtown Atlanta today. The new place is right in the heart of the city and we couldn’t be happier. We’re sharing the space with Ted Ullrich who we’ve been working with all summer long. We figured we’d go ahead make it an official partnership. The space has plenty of room for photo shoots, upstairs and downstairs work stations, our screen-printing set up, a kitchen, a bathroom, and we’re even planning on hanging Medusa Armada from the ceiling by the spiral staircase. We’re going to have to come up with a nickname for our new work space. Any ideas?

I’ll post another update as we get the place up to snuff.

It’s on! The PROCESS Season One photo shoot at El Bar had such a good turnout, that we’re going to ask our friends to blow it out again with a One Night Only release of the PROCESS Tomahawk tee in a colorway inspired by the Mexican flag. The tees will be for sale on a first-come, first-served basis at a serious “homeboy discount”. We’ll be taking happy snaps for our website as well. If that’s not enough reason to show up, the fact that Rob Wonder will be in the house should have you writing “EL BARZZZ SHAWTY” on your calendars for Thursday, August 14th. More details on coming soon.

A couple months ago our good friend, Jean-Pierre Chery, approached us with an idea he had for a messenger bag to hold his portfolio. His graphic was comprised of local Atlanta company logos (including ours) that were arranged in a similar fashion to Lou Dorfsman & Herb Lubain’s classic typography wall known as, Gastrotypographicalassemblage. We helped him screen-print the graphic onto fabric and he brought the completed prints to Lynn at Transit Bags across town and she did an amazing job constructing one of the most-exciting messenger bags I’ve seen around.

Follow the entire design process here.

This graphic will be worn on the jerseys of United States Olympic teams at the Beijing Olympics next month. It reminds me a lot of the cut-paper-posters we had to design during our first few months at Portfolio Center (current and former students know where I’m coming from). The “Nike We the People Graphic” draws inspiration from a number of cultural elements and design influences to create a bold aesthetic specific to the USA. When creating the graphic, Nike designers were drawn to tattoos as the first point of inspiration, specifically looking at how the graphic design could align directly to the athlete’s body. The multi-faceted graphic tells the story of many cultures coming together under the common theme of victory. Just like a tattoo on the body, the pattern of the graphic is darker than the base color surrounding it.

Specific elements of the design include:
- The Statue of Liberty, represented by the torch
- Stars and stripes representing the 50 American states
- The date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
- Decorative elements from our nations’ currency
- The olive branch and arrows from the talons of the American eagle in the Presidential seal
- Celtic, African and Native American symbols and influences
- A bleeding heart representing Hispanic culture

First record in the Geographic North subscription series, You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever. 2 exclusive tracks from A Sunny Day in Glasgow.

Geographic North is a new Atlanta-based record label started by our friends Farbod Kokabi & Farzad Moghaddam. They’re making limited edition 7-inch records in a series called, You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever. $36 buys you a 6-month subscription to their releases, which figures to be roughly 6 records, special gifts, and free shipping.

photos by Ted Ullrich

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of spending a few days in Beijing. It was impossible to deny the city’s excitement for hosting this summer’s Olympics games. This media guide was given to people who attended the Nike 706 exhibit inside China’s up and coming arts district recently. The book, called Nike 100 details 100 of the most innovative moments in Nike’s history as a result of obsessive design and pursuit of perfection. As I read through the book, I recalled some of my favorite moments in sports history including Michael Johnson’s gold shoes at the ATL Olympics in ‘96 and Michael Jordan winning the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in his Air Jordan III’s.

At the end of the day it’s all about reducing drag, reducing weight, and creating the lightest aerodynamics possible. Nike was founded by Phil Knight and his track coach at the University of Oregon, Bill Bowerman. Bowerman was obsessed with making footwear lighter and hand-stitched sneakers for his team before they were able to mass produce anything. It’s worth it to check out nikelab.com as it drives home Bowerman’s ethos.

I’ve spent countless hours on nikelab.com watching designer’s video explanations behind the products they’ve made. I even went out to try on the Lunar Racer this weekend. It’s really lightweight and feels like you’re walking on the moon. It’s crazy how they do it.

Remember that photoshoot we had last night at El Bar? Head over to wearetheprocess.com for more details on that tip. If you’re super-curious and want the password to the lookbook, email

photo by Jorge Menes

Thanks to everyone who came out to show us love at El Bar last night. Special thanks to Rob Wonder for letting us have the event at our favorite hang out. We’re looking forward to more events in conjunction with the EL. We’ll have content up real soon at wearetheprocess.com

photos by Ross Martin

These are the final photos of our Medusa Armada Installation at Halo Lounge last Thursday. I hardly realized how quickly the evening went by between trying Halo’s signature “Dark & Stormy” drink and catching up with everyone who came out for support.

We’re looking forward to displaying alternate versions of Medusa Armada at more events and locations. If you guys know anyone at the Georgia Aquarium, let us know!

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From left to right: Georgios Saliaris, Marie Hanson, Jessica Nash, & Larry Luk

Here’s the last frame we took at the end of our photo shoot for the final graphic of PROCESS Season One. If you want to see the completed graphic (or the rest of the line), you’ve got to come out to the Lookbook Photoshoot / Launch Party on June 18th. Details and RSVP information on the PROCESS website.

Here’s a teaser photo of our completed Medusa Armada installation that will be on display this Thursday the 29th at Halo Lounge. We need you all to come out to show that Atlanta has a great design scene. Your response could lead to more similar nights with even more artists participating.

Come by between 6 & 10pm for Free Admission. Or come later and pay a cover charge. Mention the blog and we’ll buy you a drink!

POP Art at Halo Lounge
Thursday, May 29th
6 to 10 pm for Free Admission

Click photo to purchase PROCESS X Megan Huntz Dresses collaborative tee

I know there are a lot of ladies that have been telling us we don’t make enough stuff for women. Well now you have nothing to complain about because we decided to release the first tee of our new line, PROCESS, exclusively for the ladies. This tee was created in collaboration with everybody’s girl, Megan Huntz which will be available at the next Megan Huntz Dresses showcase at Changing Room in Barcelona on Saturday June 14th.

Changing Room is held for one day only at the chic and basic hotel located in the historic center of Barcelona. 29 designers take over a room each and open to the public for a shopping extravaganza of the coolest, most cutting edge young designers in Barcelona. If you’re not able to attend the event in Barcelona you’re in luck…we’ve kept some tees stateside that you can pick up in our online store.

This tee is the first in a 2 part series. Part 2 will be available with the rest of the PROCESS line in the Spring of 2009 at your favorite boutiques nationwide. Until then, you’ll have to hope you’re lucky enough to score a PROCESS tee prototype directly from us or be invited to our private lookbook photoshoot later next month. We don’t have all the details set in stone for the lookbook photoshoot/party, but we’re pretty close. If you want to come, let us know immediately by emailing .

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