HUGE Design Event

OLC attended Huge Brooklyn’s Huge Design event: Evolving Design Communities featuring Dan Cederholm and Rich Thronett, co-founders of Dribbble; Ignacio Oreamuno, Executive Director of the Art Directors Club; and Matias Corea, co-founder and Chief of Design at Behance. The four panelists discussed the evolution of design and its community, as well as maintaining and nurturing it for growth. The moderator asked the panelists why they wanted to develop a design community—what made them do it. “For me, it was a selfish reason,” Dan Cederholm started. “A lot of the communication between designers four to five years ago was slow and that got a little frustrating for me. I wanted to know what other designers were doing right now.So, for Dribbble, we invited our friends because I wanted to see what these guys were working on. It’s grown into a large company, which I’m surprised about,” he said.“For us, it was about bringing together people for various reasons—business, technology, design... - Full Post