I’m going to mention a project right at the very start of its life and I’m wishing it the very best of luck.
It’s called the Mindmunity and it is a blog dedicated to the creation of a community of like minded individuals sharing and improving ideas.
The Mindmunity team have put together a fun video to explain their concept. You can see it here
There is a kinship here with Shared Creation. SC shares news, ideas and projects to help out with creative projects. Whilst Mindmunity openly publishes and refines ideas. I think in a way I was bound to like this idea.
Taking a look at the website the MindMunity team are making full use of the current wave of online communities. This is a good idea. If you want to talk you need to go where the people are.
There have been ideas communities in the past, but the ones I can remember seeing have taken the form of a forum. I think blogs, micro-blogs and social networks area good modern take on this idea. Not just because these are the way of doing things right now, but because it raises accessability. Future readers and contributors of Mindmunity can work from their comfort zone, and probably create better output as a result.
Good luck Mindmunity.
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It’s time to cover an excellent piece of Internet writing. This time it is Photoboxr - a discovery of photography. It’s run by Gregory Noblin, a junior at The Art Institute of Atlanta. His goal is to dig into the photography industry in order to explore the a greater understanding of what is happening.
We live in a time of great photographic change. A time when more photographs than ever are being created and displayed. Photography lets of talk visually. The aim of understanding what is going on in photography is a good one. So far it seems to be a combination camera news, and talking about photographers and exhibitions. Its a personal piece. One man working out his view on a complex subject.
Its worth a mention
We speak here of writing, film and other media, but I’ve been taking a look at a blog that speaks about design. Design tends to sit about and when its good - we hardly notice it, when its great - we go “Way Cool”, and when its bad we tend to gripe. Yet despite the impact it has on us - how much do we actually think about design?
If you’re creative then design is important, it affects how people interact with your work and how they actually find your work. Design is something that is important.
So take some time to stop and think about design once in a while and use it check your own actions and creations.
Of course sitting and thinking isn’t as good as understanding - hence the Laws of Simplicity. This is an excellent blog and is a recommendable read. However once you start you realise that the latest entry is a little bit in the past. Fortunately this is more - once you’re done with the original Laws of Simplicity website move on to http://our.risd.edu/ This is where the story continues. RISD by the way is the Rhode Island School of Design - and the blog lives up to the name.
So next time you need a quick snippet of good reading and design go here.
