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As usual, it’s been a huge amount of time since we’ve said anything publicly, but yesterday we got some great news: we were alerted that we’d been recognized as 2008 Webby Award Honorees for our work on Emdashes.
Congratulations go out to Emily and Jesse as well. The recognition is as much theirs as ours.
—pkLongtime collaborator Gawker Media has just launched their end-of-2007 best of pop site, for which we created a really lovely illustration and typography. Maura and Michelangelo at Idolator know their pop back and forth. Enjoy!
—pkHappy New Year, all. We spent the end of the year compiling some of our strongest work of the last ten years for a new portfolio. Download for yourself and have a look.
—pkWe’re proud to announce that agent Where The Hell’s That Kid With My Latte graduated from University of Tennessee as of last Saturday. He’ll be reporting for duty in early January, for those of you who’ve missed him since the summer.
—pkQuick newsbite today: we’ve launched True Military Wives Confessions for Romi Lassally, redesigned Butch swimwear for Juliano Corbetta, and crowned the Most Embarrassing Latino for Daniel Mauser.
Romi’s a former Huffington Post editor and produces films in her spare time. True Military Wives Confessions is her project which allows military wives to vent anonymously. The interesting thing about this site is that despite its anonymity, it’s not catty at all. This was picked up in USA Today last week.
Butch, Juliano’s swimwear label, is back for the 2008 season. this year we’ve expanded upon the identity and site we built last year by adding a video component and two new galleries.
And lastly, this morning, we concluded a PR event we created for Guanabee to garner a bit more notice in the national latino press. All our best to Miss Jessica Alba! She’s awesomest!
—pkAs it usually means on the web, when we go silent, we’re doing something interesting.
We’ve redesigned and rebuilt Pentagram’s website with a brand new content management system backing it up. Pentagram’s been a valuable friend to us over the past few years, and we’re really pleased they gave us the opportunity to do this.
Since the last post, we’ve seen our favorite intern, Agent Where The Hell’s That Kid With My Latte, head off back to school to finish his degree. Godspeed, Jonathan, and bring us a case of Dr. Enuf back from Tennessee. He’ll be back up north soon enough.
Art Fag City is a quick project we completed for Paddy Johnson. Paddy’s trying to bring art criticism to net art, and we’ve made her the site with which to do it. Typographically, it’s as much of a piss-take as net art is: we’ve designed it tongue in cheek with the same typographic styling as the MoMA. This is our first work inside Wordpress, and I have to say: we’re sticking with Movable Type as our content management system of choice.
Speaking of Movable Type, Su’s been working closely with the development community to help bring the newest version online, which happened very recently.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to go silent for a little while longer again. Hopefully not two months this time.
—pkanother week come and gone, and new things all around.
first and most importantly, a warm welcome is in order for our newest intern, young jonathan depriest (who’s going to kill us for linking to his website without asking). jonathan’s fresh out of my own alma mater, university of tennessee at knoxville.
jonathan’s learning the ropes here by creating ad campaigns for guanabee, which we recently designed for our friends at exacto media, and adding his own hand to our next upcoming poster pressing, soon to join ranks with the blushing cockerel.
we have yet to figure out what jonathan’s in-house nickname should be, but su’s leaning towards “where the hell’s that kid with my latte,” even though su doesn’t like coffee. i like it; it lends a certain dictatorial poetry.
in other developments, jezebel, which we designed for gawker media, was their strongest launch under very little press focus, which bodes well for the further stability of online publishing. jezebel recently had the strongest week of any new gawker publication so recently after launch. gawker will soon be moving offices in manhattan to a new space better equipped to hold the 20 or so fulltimers they now employ.
we’re growing quickly ourselves, with several larger projects in the works. but before that happens, we have several new small launches happening soon, and we’ll unveil those shortly.
—pkso, despite the general wisdom of not launching on a friday, and probably less so after a party sponsored by a tequila maker, guanabee went public june 1st. this is the flagship title from a brand new weblog company called exacto media, based in manhattan.
just before that, earlier in the week, we finished branding for gawker’s jezebel. needless to say, it’s a wee bit on the slutty side. but it’s okay, you know? there’s room for everyone in this studio.
—pk04 18 2007: we’re moving servers at the moment, so if anyone’s having problems contacting us via email, use the phone. pk’s line is 773 213 0446 and su is 312 213 8682. problems should clear up by tomorrow.—pk
the datevine is a great little site which gaby darbyshire launched a few days ago.
if you’re out of good ideas for great things to do, the datevine’s turning into a rather sizeable repository of places, times, and dates. good ones, too.
i did a quick interface for her, just some elegant typography with color, really. the site’s put built by brice dunwoodie, who’s also responsible for cms wire.
if you put all of our names together, the interesting thing about their combination is that we all pull time for gawker media. :)
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