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ARTCODES.com is the artblog and creative database of Emily Chang, an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder and principal of Ideacodes, a web design consultancy in San Francisco focused on designing and developing next generation social software, websites and web applications.  Emily writes about strategic design and web at her professional blog emilychang.com and is the creator of eHub, a popular web 2.0 software resource list.

This site has existed in many different forms since 1996.  In its current form, it’s both an asynchronous identity, personal database, and public weblog.  I’m interested in smart design, web communications, self-publishing and blogging, designing user experiences, social gestures, and interaction for the next generation of web, the effects of consumer culture and marketing, measuring time, living digitally, a sense of place, the individual identity in mass culture, self-portraiture, documentary, image-making, and process.  If you have questions or comments, feel free to email me.  If you’re looking for strategic web consulting and design, please visit my company at ideacodes.com. 

+ eProjects consists of current and past work (video blogs, road footage, photos out of airplanes, flash animations, sculptures, and ongoing digital detritus).

+ Other categories contain posts on web and tech news, exhibits and art, design, my work and life diary, and other topics.

+ You can also find me online at ideacodes.com (my company), 99 windows (art site), emilychang.com (professional blog) and beingedu.com (weblog for higher education).

professional bio

Emily Chang is an award-winning web and interactive designer, consultant, and web strategist.  She is the co-founder and co-principal of Ideacodes, a strategic design firm in San Francisco that she started in 2005 with Max Kiesler, her long-time partner and fellow award-winning web designer. 

During the last nine years, Emily has designed, consulted, and developed over seventy web products for leading technology companies, educational institutions, colleges and universities, global technology firms, non-profits, art and media organizations, ebusinesses, and organizations as diverse as Six Apart (the leading weblog company and makers of Movable Type and TypePad), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hewlett Packard, the University at Buffalo, Geophone Recods, and the Sierra Club. 

Emily has won dozens of design awards for interactive media and web design.  Most recently, her blog was honored as a finalist in the SXSW 2004 Web Awards. Two University at Buffalo websites launched with Emily’s designs and won consecutive CASE grand gold awards: the external eUB website redesign in 2002 and the alumni website in 2003. Her design of a university portal gained distinction as IBM Best Practices Partner and won the WebDevShare Award for Innovation in Technology in 2001. Her internet work has also garnered Web Marketing Association’s best education website, numerous CASE awards, and a UCDA Gold award.

Emily has also been a web director at Cornell University and the first information and interface designer for the University at Buffalo Web Team, an award-winning electronic media and marketing unit serving an online audience of more than 2.7 million hits a month.  In addition to design, she has produced community portals, built web applications for e-commerce transactions, created information architecture for large content-driven websites, and authored interactive multimedia.  She has a M.F.A. in sculpture from the University at Buffalo and and a B.A. in literature from the College of William and Mary.  Emily currently lives and works in the SOMA web district in San Francisco, California.