06 16 2007:

another 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.

-pk

06 05 2007:

so, 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.

-pk