I have launched a new forum aimed at designers in Northern Ireland. The mission statement is as follows;
The aim of nidesigners.com is to bring together web/graphic/print/multimedia and all other designers within Northern Ireland to help, advise and network with the broader design community as a whole.
I set up this forum for a few reasons;
- Firstly, there isn’t currently a community of designers currently on-line from Northern Ireland. Or even Ireland for that matter…however, its not mutually exclusive to the Irish, I hope we will see designers from all over the world logging on.
- It will provide a medium for my soon to be former classmates in Interactive Multimedia Design to keep in touch
- It will provide a place to pool job opportunities within NI
- It will give me a chance to see if I can nurture and sustain an on-line community
- And lastly, through some subtle advertising down the line, I may even make a few dollars off the back of it.
I officially cracked the bottle against its side yesterday and it already has 35 registered members which I expect to grow to hopefully 100+ by the end of the week.
I am acutely aware that a forum can only survive if it has a solid user base so I’m doing all I can to promote it locally, i.e. an email to the entire course of BSc Interactive Multimedia Design, posters around UUJ, word of mouth and other methods besides. I then hope then when the ball starts to roll and the post count builds, Google will then pick threads up to pull in outside interest.
Lastly, if you are a designer reading this post, hop along and sign up, we’d love to hear from you!
