Friday night, my wife Amanda and I had some friends over for a fun night of Cranium. If you aren’t familiar with Cranium it’s a mix of charades, pictionary, trivial pursuit and playing with play-doh. Basically it’s more fun than you could ever imagine.
Finally after months of delay, I am happy to bring you the second round of the popular “Branded Designers” series. If this is your first time here, please go check out the first round, and for those of you already familiar, welcome back.
You may notice things this time are a little different, for example I tried to put more emphasis on the photos of the tattoos. And I really tried to encourage people to go in depth with the descriptions of their tattoos. So please sit back, relax and enjoy getting to know these “branded” designers.
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A Huge thank you to all of you for your continued support and love through twitter and the comments you have been leaving. And now that Chat Creative is underway I feel like I get an even bigger chance to give back to this great community that I love so much.
I was reminded today of how much power our words hold. A simple personal opinion on twitter today really stirred the waters in the creative community. I think the whole thing got out of hand honestly.
Basically we need to put our pride aside and embrace the creative community as a whole. There are no “groups” or “cliques” here at Chat Creative. We are open to anyone interested in connecting with other creative people.
My stance from the beginning of Chat Creative is that this is nothing new. People have been sharing thoughts, ideas and information for hundreds of years. Only with the internet and the recent rise of social networking has our scope of who we can reach broadened. I don’t mind promoting others out there with similar ideas, and I hope they would be willing to promote us as well.
So let’s put ourselves aside for a second and look at the bigger picture of what we’re trying to accomplish. I’m positive that when we do this we will see how we can work together, instead of against.
This weekend I finally got the chance to fly to Temecula, California and meet/hang out with Aaron Irizarry and Garth Humbert. While out there I was able to attend the 2nd ever Collekt meetup and finally meet, in person, a few others I have been connecting with lately on tinychat. Getting to meet everyone in person really solidified my reasoning for starting Chat Creative. The desire these other creatives had to interact with one another was amazing, so much to the extent that our friend Nicho drove two hours to be there.
On top of all the great connections I made, I was able to find time to relax with Garth and his family. We took a trip down to Coronado Island by San Diego on Saturday afternoon. Getting to smell the ocean air and feel the cool breeze as we walked the beach was a real mind-clearer. To top it off, after the beach we went and visited Temecula Wine Country for a little wine tasting and dinner. Here are a few photos I took while down there. You can see more over on my flickr page.
Thanks again to everyone that came out to the Collekt meetup. I am so pumped for what the future holds for Chat Creative, and all the connections we are making right now. This is just the beginning of a new generation of designers working with/for each other, not against.
Alone he walked up the downward slope,
while steel and rubber passed him by.
Not that good american steel either,
but more of the foreign japanese/german kind.
What makes me different from this man I thought.
Why am I afforded the luxury of air conditioning and not he?
Are there certain choices we make?
Is it a personal decision he had already made?
Often I think that no one else pays close attention.
To the sky the birds or any simple pleasure.
I guess that’s why I noticed him today,
and asked myself why am I so blessed?
This past week has been crazy busy. The Chat Creative website finally went live yesterday, and now we have our Facebook Fan Page up and running as of today. I am so excited to have FUEL Brand Network on board with us, supporting us. I can’t describe how big of a deal this is. Also, we are hooking up with Design Community Twitter Hours to work together on helping build the design community.