And under the heading of network-building, readers in the Bay Area with an entrepreneurial bent should give Design Sight a look. An ongoing series of dinner events organized by the SF chapter of the IDSA, this is a novel approach to the typical networking/schmooze event. Held in a restaurant rather than a bar or conference hall, tables are filled with an unusual mixture of designers, entrepreneurs, and experts on some of the non-design fields that enable design work to proceed: marketing, PR, intellectual property, and so on. All very civilized.
This Thursday's event features heavyweights from Astro Studios, The North Face, SFSU and Peclers Paris, as well as (in a much smaller capacity) myself -- a potentially fascinating mix that makes me curious to see what gets talked about. Details are here; if you're in attendance, drop by and say hi.
You're a designer, you get paid, you take the Coroflot Designer Salary Survey. Come on, it's only fair.
Now in it's 9th year (true!), this is the longest-running survey on the web that's specific to designers, and has gotten far larger than we could have guessed when it started up way back in 2001: last year's netted over 4000 responses, covering graphic, interior, interaction and industrial design, design management, illustration, web, and all the other creative endeavors found in Coroflot's portfolios. So whether you're senior staff or newbie freelancer, we want to hear what you do and how much you make doing it. As before, results can be viewed once you've entered your own info, sortable by country, region, job title, and education level, and a full analysis published after polling closes.
Survey will be open through the end of October -- rise up and be counted while the counting's good
