I met up with some people last Friday who are designers in the area. It was really great to connect with people who are doing design work. It makes you really aware of how diverse the field is, with people who specialize or have particular talents for all kinds of things. I am discussing the possibility of creating a collaborative with one member.

This is an idea I have been thinking about and have discussed with a number of people, and I think it is a really great idea. Perhaps not a new idea, but now, as so many people have high speed Internet connections in their homes and want to have control over their schedules and work-flows, it makes more sense than ever. My hope is that this could lead to a situation where work can come in to a central location then get distributed out to one or more participating collaborators.

This all seems like a fairly obvious idea to me, but I have not found good examples of this in practice, except perhaps in the Architectural/Design industry. Does anyone know if this is happening in the Graphic/Web/Interface design industries?

On the side of this page you will find a link to my design portfolio where you will find examples of my design work. This portfolio was created with a system called Drupal. It is a content management system. I made it this way because I wanted something that I would very easily be able to update. Also, I wanted to become very familiar with content management systems in general, and Drupal in particular. This sort of system is the future of the web. Web sites that are dynamically generated, easily updated by anyone with permission to do so and easy to navigate. Also, not ugly. There are a lot of really ugly web sites out there. Perhaps you have seen a few. As far as using this system for a portfolio goes… I am not sure it is the best solution. It is a bit of an over kill. We will see how it works and what kind of feedback I get from the site. I might opt for something flashier and slicker visually for the next iteration