Post archive for ‘Building a community’

All A-Twitter

I admit it, I can be a social networking curmudgeon. MySpace confuses me. Facebook bores me. LinkedIn just helps me keep track of former coworkers. So I was pretty set against Twitter from the start. I mean, seriously, who cares what you’re doing right now? Brushing your teeth? Who cares?
It turns out that I do. [...]

New location, new partnerships, new projects!

New, new, new!
I moved out of my small Activspace office a few months ago to take a job with a local interactive agency, but that affair only lasted six months. Now I’m in a great new office space with two other designers, where we’re starting a design collective geared toward providing design solutions ranging from [...]

Teaching is hard work

I always wanted to be a teacher. Ok, not always, since I already wrote about wanting to be a ninja. But starting in high school and going in to college, the plan was to be an English teacher. Since turning into a designer, I’ve either wanted to go to graduate school or teach. I only [...]

Aretha had it right.

(And I don’t mean about driving down the freeway of love in a pink Cadillac. No no, we’re going back to the classics on this one.)
Eric Karjaluoto recently posted a great entry about requests to do spec work that got me thinking about how designers are regarded/treated by clients once you have them. Eric’s blog [...]