[Multiple] Practices make perfect
Eat Media is a [content-first] Design, Development and Ideation agency. We are founded on the principle that brands are stories and mediums do not define the message. We are a team of strategic creatives committed to digital, social and print excellence.
How we earned our Aeron chairs
Since 2004, we have developed content-first solutions for software giants, online universities, media organizations and healthy startups. We have worked in Advertising, Outsourcing, and E-learning. We’ve been Literary Agents, Directors of Operations and Managing Editors. The experiences we create, and projects we work on are [content-first] because we started our careers as storytellers. We are night owls making magic for the morning web. We are 59 parts inspiration and 41 parts execution. Creative curators allergic to <span> tags, “catch-up meetings” and having .PPTs read in entirety. Give us your brand. Let us tell your story.
Principals
Britta Alexander, partner, has led award-winning print and web projects for online universities, software giants, media companies and funded startups. She has served as managing editor for a family of regional lifestyle publications, and as a NYC literary agent, where she edited the work of bestselling authors. Britta began her career as an advertising copywriter, developing Ad Age-worthy print, television and radio campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. She holds a Master’s of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College, and lives in the New York City metro area. When she’s not building content-heavy websites, Britta can be found listening to The Dirty Three Elizabeth Mitchell with her two toddler sons, reminiscing about the day Ric Ocasek told her he liked her violin playing.
Ian Alexander, partner/storyteller, has been strategizing, creating and managing web content long before anyone called anyone a “content strategist.” In his 20-year career, he has worked with technical startups as a product developer, director of operations and director of technical projects. His deep technical knowledge combined with endless creativity makes the impossible possible. (Thanks Montessori!) Ian has spoken on the subject of content strategy (and hip-hop) at a number of conferences including SXSW, the IA Summit, the Custom Content Council, among others. When Ian’s not working, you can find him pointing out the elephant in any room, preaching the gospel of Slint or going to the hole Tiny Archibald style. He, like every other content|design nerd, is working on his second novel.
Team
John Fakorede, design | code, has a crush on WordPress and all of its wonders. He lives in NJ with his wife Anino and his adorable son Darek. He prefers Baroque over Beastie Boys and early Jazz over sunlight.
You, Senior Strategist, This is where all your awesome experience would go.
Rusty, senior programmer, is 1/2 Keith Jarrett, 1/2 CTO and a sneaky 2-guard. When heavy CMS lifting is required, Rusty is the man for the job.
Nina Max Daly, designer and illustrator, has been wielding an x-acto knife for more years than she cares to reveal. She’s done work for regular people, small indie shops, old-school design firms and major cable TV networks. When she’s not designing pretty things, Nina can be found baking cakes, hunting mushrooms and hocking her wares on Etsy.
Advisors
Doug Rushkoff, Media Theorist and winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He teaches media studies at NYU and the New School University, serves as technology columnist for The Daily Beast, and lectures around the world.
He serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association, The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and as a founding member of Technorealism. He is on the Advisory Board of MeetUp.com and HyperWords . He has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News to Larry King and Bill Maher. He developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive.
Rushkoff is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies, and regularly consults on new media arts and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, universities, and even Fortune 500 companies that are willing to listen to reason.
Friends who help us mightily
Joey Brannon is our virtual CFO, business mentor and whip-snapper. A licensed CPA, P.A and principal of Axiom, Joey has been with Eat Media since day one and there isn’t a day that goes by we don’t marvel at his insight. An entrepreneur at heart, Joey understands the struggles, frustrations, joy and accomplishment that come from running a business focused on serving others. If you don’t work with him, something is wrong with you. Seriously.
Julia Hays is the greatest virtual bookkeeper in the US.
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Join our team
We don’t work all this magic by ourselves. Our quest to paint the world with whiteboard paint and do awesome [content-first] digital work is nothing without you. Designers, developers, writers and editors unite, or at least email us your best work.
We are actively searching for designers, developers and editorial interns. Email joinus@eatmedia.net.