Coptix
Founded as Cross Computer Consulting on January 1, 1999 and incorporated as Coptix Inc. on January 1, 2002, Coptix is a Chattanooga, Tennessee based graphic design, web design, and web development company with clients such as Chattem, redbox, Olan Mills, Hardees, Gold BOND medicated powder, Ultraswim Shampoo, Sun-in, and Coker Tire. Coptix' work redesigning the Chattanooga Times Free Press website was featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Coptix is a member of the AIGA.
Bill Cahan Spoofs
Coptix gained attention throughout the design community when in January of 2007 it produced and distributed via YouTube a series of video spoofs of the Cahan & Associates promotional video featuring noted designer Bill Cahan.
Karl Rove Photo Hoax
Coptix gained national media attention in April of 2007 after an April Fool's Day prank in which they photoshopped a photo of White House advisor Karl Rove to make him Appear to be holding a folder with the Coptix logo on the cover. Blogs such as Wonkette - which called the hoax photo "a crime scene" - and DailyKos ran the doctored photo and claimed (as Wonkette put it) that it proved "without a doubt that Karl Rove is illegally running all the White House e-mail through a private company" to avoid the automatic archiving of the White House email system.. Sites that fell prey to the hoax had failed to notice Sleestaks also had been added to the photograph in a television shown in the background.
External links
- Coptix website
- Coptix Flickr Group
- Bill Cahan Spoof Videos
- Diary of a Manufactured Scandal - before and after and production photos of the hoax photo and a list of websites where it appeared
- "Liberal Blogs Get Punked" - Michelle Malkin interview
- The Little Design Firm That Caused a Big Political Scandal - UnBeige applauds Karl Rove photo hoax.