We’ve been working with Notable Music since earlier this year on the conceptualization, design and development of their new site. It’s been a great process and has yielded some fantastic results. The site has a great look and overall vibe, really tapping into both the vintage and the current elements that Notable represents. The team is great and we definitely look forward to working on more with them.
This site is built on Wordpress but as you can see from just clicking around, it’s much more than just another Wordpress site. We’ve harnessed a ton of jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3 to really push it forward from a functionality standpoint on the front-end. And under the hood, the site takes 9 separate types of content and cross-relates everything using a lot of custom functions. For example, take an individual artist’s page. It pulls in videos, audio streams, photo galleries, and the artist’s music releases from other sections on the site automatically to create a full scale overview of the artist and everything they are about.
It’s pretty fancy if we do say so ourselves and we’re definitely proud of this one. Check it out and give Notable some love, you dig!
A big day for another one of our clients, Jenny and Johnny (Jenny Lewis and bf Johnathan Rice). Their debut record, ‘I’m Having Fun Now’, comes out today. If you’re in Hollywood, swing down to Amoeba tonight around 7pm to catch an in-store performance.
Additionally, the new webstore we designed and developed for them just launched. This one is built on Big Cartel’s awesome, simple store platform.
Available in the new store is a grip of merch that we designed for the release, based on Jenny and Johnny’s personal vest and jacket. These turned out great, sort of biker meets hipster.
Today we bring you a project that we’ve been working on with Joe Rogan for quite some time now. It’s been under wraps for over a year but today we’re finally launching the site and the new line, Higher Primate.
It’s funny, we’re launching with 4 tees and it seems like, to the outsider, “hey, that’s easy enough. slap graphics on 4 tees and throw up a webstore, right?” But in reality, a lot of blood, sweat and tears have gone into the creation of this line and the initial tees over the past year. From getting the designs just right to going through just about every blank garment manufacturer we could get our hands on, to dialing in the printed samples, developing the special hang-tags, designing and developing the site, building out the webstore with GoMerch, and everything in between.
We’re honored that Joe trusted us enough to work on the design, branding, and development of his baby.. a line of clothing that tells quite the story and is inspired by everything from the teachings of Terrance McKenna and his experimentation with Hallucinogens to Einstein’s research in relativity.. more of which will be revealed as the onion peels.
Today’s a big day for Fitz & The Tantrums. Their new album, Pickin’ Up The Pieces (which we did the design and art direction for) is out today on Dangerbird Records! Much love to Noelle, Fitz, the rest of the band, Lisa & Brian, and the Dangerbird crew! We had a blast working with these guys and we think they are the bee’s knees!
If you’re in Hollywood today, swing down to Amoeba Records at 7pm for a Fitz & The Tantrums in-store. We’ll be there too if you want to say hey.
Big day for Margaret Cho and hew new music/comedy album, Cho Dependent. In stores today - if you’re a fan - or at least not easily offended - go pick it up! Then again, if you were easily offended, you wouldn’t be here now would you?
We did the full album and vinyl package layout and design for this one, with an original painting by Shawn Barber as the cover.
This just popped up on our radar. URB Magazine has been named #15 out of “The 35 Best Wordpress Design Websites” by Blog Design Studio. We don’t know who Blog Design Studio is, but hey, thanks guys! More fun coming from URB in the near future actually. Don’t touch that dial…
We’re stoked to be working with Jimmy Eat World again this year on the development of their new merch line. New record, Invented, is coming in September, and we’re currently working with the band, management, and their merch company on developing the goods for tour, the online store, and retail shops. So far it’s looking like the best round of Jimmy Eat World merch yet…
Stay tuned for more info and product shots. For now, check out the first tee and sticker that’s been released as part of the online store’s album pre-order packages. Pickup the CD package here, or the Vinyl package here.
We just launched the new Mutt Marketing site! Go check it out and hit them up for any digital and strategic marketing needs!
Site has a bunch of subtle jQuery features and is built on the Wordpress 3.0 platform with - as you can see from the admin panel screenshot below - a ton of customization using Fluency Admin, Magic Fields, and a host of other core plugins for SEO, analytics, cache, and other performance bits and pieces.
It’s Lobsterfest time of year again! This year was all about elevating the entertainment of the fest and making a fresh, bold statement with the imaging. It’s going to be a great year, with a few bands we’ve worked with over the past couple of years (Fitz & The Tantrums, AWOLNATION, The Section Quartet), and a bunch of other good ones. Plus, lobster, obviously.
We did the posters again this year, drawing on the old 80’s movie poster theme. Check them out below, and take a stroll through the new site!
We’ve had the privilege of working with a lot of great people lately, including Adam Foley over at Redlight Management on a couple different projects - the full UNKLE site and this new widget for Ki:Theory.
The basic idea here is that Ki:Theory is giving away a couple albums and EPs free on kitheory.com and was looking for a cool way to do it. They wanted fans to be able to stream previews of the album and ep tracks right on the site, as well as add either the full release or individual tracks to a cart and download everything at once.
So, after a bit of brainstorming on the best way to do this, we came up with the little widget you see below. Check it out on kitheory.com to see it in action and download Arms For Legs and Brittle Branches for free right now.
This little widget uses Topspin’s awesome cart and digital download system, Soundcloud’s great little play widgets and audio hosting, PayPal’s donation button, Twitter and Facebook share tools, and jQuery’s fancy tabs and fades to create a pretty quick and easy listening, downloading, donating and sharing experience all in one. Compact but powerful, lightweight but with a big impact.
When our good friends Mark Bowen and Wendy Higgs over at Wichita Recordings decided to develop a US-based online store, they came to us for help. Actually, it sort of happened organically at a last-minute dinner with Jeff and a few others over at Forage (Which we HIGHLY recommend if you’re anywhere near Sunset Junction) when Mark was last in town.
Over the last few months we’ve been building out the store with Wendy and Casper’s team over at GoMerch. Gathering the goods from around the world, designing and developing the custom storefront, building merchandise packages.. The fruits of those labors have now launched.
So, head on over to the new Wichita Recordings Official US Online Store to pickup music and some great limited-edition merch items from their bands! Much more to come. And if you need a fully managed, custom built storefront yourself, hit us up.
