Hello fellow design fanatics - I'm a UXer in New York City open to networking and learning.  Contact me if you're looking for someone empathetic and design-y.

Bonjour everyone! Wow there is a lot of messages here and since I didn't read them all, perhaps someone already brought up some great information related to my message. I am a new member located in Alberta, Canada and I would like to know if there are other members from Canada I could connect with. I am also really interested in getting in touch with design educators. In addition of being self-employed, I teach many design classes at 2 Universities here in Canada. Since I am always looking improving my classes, I feel it would be great to exchange information with other instructors from around the world. Finally, my design business is fairy new. Last fall, I resigned from my Art Director position at Free (wearefree.ca), an advertising agency where I worked for eight years. It has been a great experience and I left behind a great team. As we gain experience, I feel like we need to re-evaluate what we want to do and I am now looking to collaborate with other businesses and organizations on a project basis and offer my knowledge in order to help them with their creative projects. If you are interested or have any advice for me, please get in touch! You can also visit my website at valerydesignwrks.ca or follow my tweets @valerydesignwrk! Merci!

I graduated last May with a BA in Graphic Design and a BA in Public Relations. I have been wondering if I really should aim to join the workforce and get all the experience I need to help me grow as an artist or if I need to go to Grad school. I want to make sure I know exactly where I want to go with my career because Art in general fascinates me. So my real question is: Is Grad School mandatory for Graphic Design? Should I go now or should I work for a couple of years and then try to go back?

I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive Digital Asset Management (DAM) system (images, documents, video, etc.). Any experiences (good or bad) that you've had with any systems? It's looking like most of the packages out there are thousands and thousands of dollars per year (which I don't have). Also looking into what is involved with basic implementation. I've never implemented this before, so I'm a DAM noob. Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Everyone!

 

I am a local Creative Director here in Detroit, MI. I work for a major food distributor as their head designer, creating everything from corporate food and wine brochures to logos, company truck designs, etc. In a nut shell I design everything food and wine for the company! I am looking for a competition to enter that would offer a food and/or wine brochure entry. Does anyone know of a great competition to enter? Thank you in advance for your help everyone :)

 

Katie S.