The Designer Grid
What is it?
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The Designer Grid (thedesignergrid.com) is a project that we undertook after many of our fellow designers didn’t have a place to showcase their work. To solve the problem of said people not having a website or an online portfolio, we thought that it would be a good idea to showcase their work along side their contact information in a graphically pleasing manner to the public. From this idea spawned the website we are working on today.
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Questions and Answers for Pre-Launch
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The site’s intentions are not to make money although we do need to somehow come up with some type of revenue scheme to offset the costs of private hosting, for this we have setup an ad server that will hopefully pull in some money to help the cause. Currently the design of the website is finalized and we are under way with coding, the site is set to launch within the month. Most of the anticipation is coming from our own personal friend circle however we hope that within the coming months that the reach of the site will extend further than just our immediate friends and hopefully it will traverse the Internet’s designers. The goal of this project is to generate a user-driven design showcase that has more than just web design. In essence the idea is similar to a CSS showcase however instead of limiting the site’s material to only web based designs, The Designer Grid will showcase all genres of work from web design to advertisement to package design to 3D to writing! By the time the site begins to snowball (looking to the future) we hope that we have a following that will help us generate a nice flow of designer art.
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The Big Problem
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Our biggest problem right now is the debate of discriminating work. We want to showcase quality work, or work that we consider quality; this is where the argument gets muddy because quality of work is totally our self-opinion. We are going to try our hardest to stop this from getting in our way of submissions, however there will be some personal criticism and rejection to some art, especially those that engage in semi-pornographic characteristics. In the end though, we hope that the majority of the visitors to the site agree with our decisions.