01-18-2009 10:08
After many months of planning, design, and preparation, we're finally ready to announce the opening of ICOW.

ICOW is... well, whatever you want to call it. International Council of Washers? Sure. Irate Council of Wonks? Yep. Interminable Congregation of Wisconsin? Absolutely.

ICOW is a content creator collective, a bunch of friends and fellow content wonks who make things. The basic idea was to have a place to work on our own projects separately and occasionally collaborate, but has since evolved into a full-fledged shopping experience.

Currently four shops are open: Luc Abret's Aubretec, Luth Brodie's Reel Expressions, Keiki Lemieux's HUDDLES AV, and myself (Lordfly Digeridoo's) Grid.Living. We hope to expand quickly, as we have a lot of shops to fill :)

The Sim itself was designed primarily by myself and Luth. For once I'm really happy with the overall design... shopping should be pleasantly simple, as there are only two axes of movements. One is a gentle curve along the shop windows, and the other is through the "ICOW Gift Shop", which will be where all of our collaborations will be.

Speaking of, the first one is ready - Luth and Keiki have teamed up to make a really nice Runway HUD, for all you fashion folks.

We have a product blog up: ICOW . We'll have Plurk and Twitter feeds up shortly for product announcements.

Pics of the sim follow. To visit, simply visit the ICOW sim (we know, it's not named ICOW, we're working on that).

Hope to see you around! :)

Lordfly and the ICOW team





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