Name:
Zach Shuta

Aka:  
I don’t have a cool moniker, but my Grandma calls me Z.

Website:
www.zachshuta.com

Where are you from?
Upstate NY, but reside in Charlotte, NC

Who do you work for? 
I freelance and also work full time for a company designing headwear and apparel for mass and mid tier retail stores.

What are your Current Project(s)? 
Right now I am doing some identity development for a couple of NHL teams. 

Who would you love to work with?
Maybe Kidrobot or Medicom. I think it would be cool to see how my 2D work would translate to the 3D world. In general, any like minded individuals interested in putting something out there. The door is always open.

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
I doubt even a hobo would want a pair of my sneakers when I get through with them. I wear my shit. I do have a pair of Air Max 90’s that are about 5 years old that are still hanging around. I’d probably keep those.

What’s on your iPod right now?
Leonard Cohen, Ill Bill, Tomahawk, Queens of the Stone Age, DOOM

What’s your Favorite Charlotte food?
The Crab Soup at Eddie’s Place

What’s your Favorite Charlotte hangout?
The Penguin is pretty much a weekly tradition for my family. Good atmosphere, great food, AND cheap beer. 

What are your Pet Peeves?
Making excuses

Shout outs?
My little man D and little girl ZoZo.

Franco from XTM Online sent me this video from last weekend’s Faster Mustache 24 Hour Urban Bike Relay. It’s raw footage at this point, but it’s just a taste of what he’ll be compiling for a larger project. I know Ted has raced in this event before and it’s especially neat to watch the riders near and around our old digs downtown.

Yesterday, in between watching football and checking the Process Fantasy League, I was surfing Charlotte/Orlando party pics site, SmileForCamera.com, and came across ATL’s own, Rob Wonder, showing Florida how we gits down. LOL! Good lookin’ out Rob!

Today I got back all but one roll (stupid, I know) of the rest of my film from my trip to Seattle. I had not used a Holga for years but I bought one before this trip just to see what I could get. Every one of these cameras is different and its always cool to see the differences.

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One of my favorite artists, Steven Dixey, is showing new pieces in a series called The Road to Damascus at Beep Beep Gallery on Saturday night. I’ve been anticipating this show for months now. If you call yourself a fan of the arts, you HAVE to see his iconic work. Hopefully we’ll be able to pick up something nice for the Treehouse!

Name:
Nico Amortegui

Aka:  
Dude

Website:
blu-magazine.com & sirevista.com

Where are you from?
Bogota, Colombia

Who do you work for? 
Blü Magazine and Sí Revista

What are your Current Project(s)? 
To launch our new Spanish magazine and finish my black and white photography book.

Who would you love to work with?
El Che Guevara

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
My 1977 Nikes

What’s on your iPod right now?
Carlos Vives, El Puma & Michael Jackson

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
Bacon cheeseburgers from Flip

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
El Bar

What are your Pet Peeves?
Bitching ‘n Complaining

Shout outs?
Don’t believe the hype

Lot’s o’ peeps have been asking what’s in store for PROCESS for our Fall/Winter collection. Granted that the end of 2009 will mark our first year out as a brand, we have some special things prepared. Reaching goals y’all…

Our New Orleans buddies, The Buttons, just released this fun video for their track, Roller Rock. I remember seeing some photo outtakes of the video shoot from Jorge & Jhes a couple months back. If you look closely, you can see they got some face time in the vid. Hilarious! Spread the word!

You don’t need to understand Portuguese (or Turkish) to see the storytelling here. Clearly Luis Fabiano and Brazil are gunning hard for the World Cup in South Africa. I wonder what a campaign like this with Landon Donovan would be received by American audiences…

Name:
Jake Tompkins

Aka:  
Jake the Snake (only to my little sister)
The Bike Polo Guy

Website:
www.atlbikepolo.com
My Flickr

Where are you from?
Born in Tennessee, lived in Las Vegas for a few years, Lived in Albuquerque for a 7 years, and I’ve been in GA for the last 12. I feel very much like I’m a product of the lower half of the US.

Who do you work for? 
At the moment I work for myself. I was working as a Cabinet maker at Thomsen Ltd. but times are bad and I got laid off last week.  

What are your Current Project(s)? 
I have a couple of community art projects I’ve been working on recently.
The first is called dividing lines. I took a canvas and painted a 10″ red stripe down the center. Then I handed it off to a friend who painted a slightly smaller beige/seasalt line down the center. It’s been through 4 friends hands so far and the changes keep getting better. I’m hoping to get the lines down to the point where the final line is a pencil line. you can check that out on my flickr page.

The second is about to start. I went around to local thrift stores and picked up about 40 LP’s. I’m going to distribute them to my more graphically inclined friends and each will be challenged to design something to be laser etched onto the LP that is an interpritation of the band name or album title. We’ll be doing an exhibition somewhere once it’s done. Pictures will go up once it’s done too.

I’m also working on a bid packet to get the North American Hard Court Bike Polo Championships in Atlanta.  Outside of making stuff, bike polo is my life.  

Who would you love to work with?
My standard answer used to be Sam Maloof, even at 90 years old he was a fantastic furniture designer and fabricator. He passed away last March and since then my aspiration has changed just to work with the people I graduated with a few months ago. All the kids I graduated with are fantastic designers. Other than that sappy answer most of the people I pine to work with are all dead. Charles Eames, Hans Wegner, Eero Saarenin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis Comfort Tiffany, etc. Also I’d trade a finger to work with any bike company on Bike Polo Gear. 

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
My bright purple suede Puma RS-1’s, I only wear them one or twice a year so I can have them forever.

What’s on your iPod right now?
Fashion Nugget by Cake.

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
This is tough but The Bone Garden Cantina has hands down the best Traditional Mexican food in town.

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
The Porter, in Little 5, is becoming my new bar hangout. It’s a poor man’s Brickstore, but 15 min closer to my place than Decatur, and the food is great.

If I’m just drinking Coffee I love going to Octane for an Americola (Expresso+Coke=fantastic).

Also if you’re really into fruity drinks and fruity bartenders Joe Elvis at Papi’s is hilarious, I’ve definately spent a number of Friday nights hanging out there.

What are your Pet Peeves?
Karim Rashid… and his big ass glasses. Can’t stand that guy. Also the fonts Comic Sans, Papyrus, and Copperplate Gothic. And in Bike Polo, AGS Street Hockey Balls.

Shout outs?
Josh Tuminella, Michael Gluzman, and My friends at Resource

I started sketching this graphic the other day thinking it might go well with PROCESS‘ Fall/Winter efforts. I still need to tweak the composition a little bit before re-rendering it for a print-ready situation. Peeps who are playing in our Fantasy Football League may have noticed a fully rendered comp of this graphic on my team’s profile (Dirty South Octopi). We’ll definitely fit it in the collection if I can make changes and meet production deadlines. Otherwise, it is a head start on some fun stuff for Spring.

Thanks to Franco for spotting this one on MTV Jams today:
DJ Greg Street from Atlanta’s V-103 radio station made a cameo in this video repping one of our out-of-stock & (regrettably) out-of-production fitteds from this Spring. If you were lucky enough to score one, congrats. It’s a collectors item now! I’m not at liberty to elaborate on that any more.

This week I bring to you some of my own work from recent photo shoots I have been working on. Most of these are out-takes and behind the scenes images. Hope you all enjoy them! Read more »

Lately, I’ve been working with Audible Recording Boutique, formally known as Dirty South Productions, to change their identity to something more modern and fresh. They came to us needing a new look for their brand that spoke to not only hip hop artist but to an array of artists. There’s more to come for Audible so stay tuned.

Name:
Matthew Senna

Aka:  
Msenna/Jamie Marx/Captain

Website:
www.JamieMarx.com 
www.Msenna.com
www.thebreaksover.com
www.propervillainscollective.com (coming soon)

Where are you from?
North Plainfield New Jersey USA

Who do you work for? 
Those who need to be educated. And my unborn child.

What are your Current Project(s)? 
Jamie Marx winter collections / Our first piece of furniture with Lars Amhoff / shooting the first season of “Good Folk”/ GLC + J Marx + Alex Goose. And some miscellaneous other developments.

Who would you love to work with?
Marc Jacobs, Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore, Spike Jonze, Michael Jordan, Banksy, Trump, Racia Oliveria, Alexa Chung and Keira Knightly (the last 3 for business of course)    

If you had to give all your sneakers away to charity except for one pair, which ones would you keep? 
Sneakers would have to be Jordan XI that shoe change my mindset on design and brands.. i was 11 and all my boys had them but me. momma dukes wasnt spending that on sneakers.. my friend took that box out and showed me them and it was over.. i had already liked jordan because my friends dad would take us to the bar with him to watch all the chicago games, but that pair put me on to the brand and their way of thinking… def one of my biggest influences. much respect.       

What’s on your iPod right now?
Jessica Tonder roughs, Pheonix, Mos Def, Anthony Hamilton, The Roots, GLC, YE, Bob Dylan, Outkast, Gnarls Barley,UNKLE, Rage Against the Machine and my secret listen…. juno soundtrack..   

What’s your Favorite ATL food?
Taqueria del Sol or Alfredos Italian Restaurant because it reminds me a lot of the places up north.

What’s your Favorite ATL hangout?
Georgia Dome on Sundays when the dirty birds are home.

What are your Pet Peeves?
Ignorance. And the lack of understand and appreciation for good design in the US. And logos made in Photoshop. 

Shout outs?
yo son check the fly shit son, check it, i got a new connect son.. i need yall to shout, the whole JM crew, shout my folks son, Rich i see you.. thanks for holdin it down! Kath keep makin them good meat balls! Kerry diversify yo bonds kid… Scotty keep cathin them large mouth.. JM Anglers next up….   im sorry i got a little to comfortable with these shout outs. reminded me of the old days MC’n. shouts to everyone who supports anything ive ever done.. the brands, work, sports..  everyone..  first shouts to Process, and all our accounts current and future…  shouts to Q, Jason, Lars, BFS, Raekwon, Tom Medvedich and my whole Proper Villains  crew.. shout to Jessica tonder, A Geezy and Uncle bob, shouts to Rob Mc, Dan, Will and Jada, John rusk, Julia of Neilsen, Clarkston, Woodgrain, Wilton, D and Jak, lex boogie, Big Mike, Luba Lukova, Kean University staff, Charlie, Kobe ill see you next month..im borrowing that ring!,  the handsome donkey crew ,GLC, Mike Turner, Jason Geter, Cory, D, Bill Hallman, Shoe Gallery, The Webster, BC, Timberlake i see you, Megan Huntz, freshiam, Dyrdek, Antenna, FALSE, Juli, cherokee crew, and anyone else i forgot…o yea and Jenna Rivers i love you.

Head over to our Portfolio and check out some of the recent logos we’ve completed. This update has been a long time coming…

Chris from Life After Midnight asked me to submit a Monday Morning Playlist for this week. It’s pretty cool to read through some of the past MMP’s and see what industry bros are listening to. He also conducted an interview with me that will be published on Wednesday. Check it all out here.

Football season is upon us, and we’ve decided to run a fantasy league this year. It’ll be my first time to play, since I’m die-hard Cowboys & Falcons, I find it hard to draft/root for enemy players (Redskins/Eagles/Giants/Saints/Panthers/Bucs/etc). Anyway, I’m putting my hatred aside this season to have some fun with you bros and gals.

The top 3 team owners will receive hefty PROCESS prize packs.

Sign up by emailing us at . You’ll receive a registration email from ESPN shortly after that. Spots are limited, so make sure you sign up soon!

Draft day is Sunday, August 30th at 1pm EST.
You can choose to autodraft as well.

What’s up world?? This is Joe Martinez, taking over for my good friend Ross for this week’s Photo Friday. I wanted to share some images I created during my recent trip to Greece last month. This is my second trip to Europe this year, and my first time in the Mediterranean. I definitely took advantage of the beautiful weather, good food, and amazing scenery. It was also a great opportunity to practice a fun technique that some of you may have seen floating around the internet. “Tilt-shift photography” is a selective focus technique using a specialized lens that controls the orientation of the plane of focus of a particular scene or subject. The results vary, but it’s possible to achieve what some have dubbed “fake miniature” photography, creating the illusion of a miniature or toy model look. Some clever Photoshop enthusiasts found a way to do this without the use of this lens making the technique available to anyone with a little patience, the right image, and few Photoshop tools. A simple Google search will provide you with several tutorials on how to achieve your own tilt-shift images. More T-S photos from Greece after the jump! Read more »

Our Amiga, Ansley Whipple sent us a postcard from her recent trip to Brazil. Mane, I’m jealous. Thanks Ansley for the contribution to our wall. Keep sending us postcards and we’ll blog ‘em and pin ‘em up at the treehouse.