Hehe, I have no life, I’ve been waiting all day on what the announcement was. :P
There is a LOT of potential in Dallas, I read somewhere that they have nearly 1200 buisinesses in the area that employ design staff. In fact I almost got on with Dillard’s Print Department 6 months ago, but was sadly cut before I was hired (corporate downsizing and junk), lol.
You’ll make it, you’re insanely talented. ;)
Hopefully I’ll be out in Dallas in 6 months time, maybe we’ll run into each other.
Good luck.
yay
best of luck my potato chip friend!
Props to you Shua. Best of luck!
Dallas is greatness.
I’m excited to see the creative saturation you bring to the desert in which i was born.
Mockingbird Station has great gellato and indie movies.
We should have coffee
Good luck! Can’t wait to see the new portfolio.
Congrats on the move and welcome to Texas.
Wahooey! This is awesome news.
suwheet! Dallas ain’t half bad and there’s so much that people don’t know about the city. I bet you’ll like it here. NCC will be playing a gig in Deep Ellum at the Curtain Club (Aug 4th) and Club Dada (Aug. 18th). I highly reccommend it. MuteMath also seems to grace us with their presence rather often. I hope to see you around.
As for contacts, I’ll keep my ears open, but I’m not exactly in the “art community” around here, much to my chagrin. It is flourishing though, so I doubt you’ll be searching long.
Dallas will be lucky to get you!
rock on, friend.
dude! best of luck man (; you’re gonna do wonderfully there. your work speaks for itself…plus, if it doesn’t work out, you can always come crash with me in nyc (;
I’ve got a job for you: Sit in my lap.
The pay isn’t that great, but the benefits are out of this world.
Now you get to worry about immigration like the rest of us! Wee!
It’s always sad to see talent leave the area, but good luck. Aren’t possibilities exciting?
good luck! :)
Welcome to Texas, Dood!
Let’s get lunch sometime!
Thank you all kindly for the well-wishes and nice words.
Great to hear that you are coming to Dallas! I am a designer in the area and have some leads if you’d like them. I’ve been a long time reader and a sporatic commenter. If you want, drop me an email and maybe we can do lunch and I can throw you some business cards and all the info I have on the dallas market.
Dallas will truly be a more creative place with you in it.
Hey Shua… Good Luck on your new venture Dallas is a pretty cool place you need to get over to Austin when you get the chance though as that is supposed to be the creative Mecca of Texas at least for ID. There is one of the contributers for IDn Magazine living in Austin and I know quite a few folks that live in both Austin and Dallas so if you need some names I will be more than happy to send them to you.
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Goodbye Nooga, Temporary Unemployment, and Welcome to the Big D
Wed 07/26/06
Wheeeeeee! Ok, here goes:
After approximately 10 months in the aptly named “Scenic City” of Chattanooga, Tn, I’m packing my bags, uprooting myself, and heading 800 miles in the general direction of Dallas, Tx this weekend. Today is my last official day in the office at Tubatomic Studio and it’s been a wonderful few months working alongside the talented folks here.
When I was brought on, I immediately (read: before I even got to town, actually) plunged into the deep-end of creating the visual world of the cre824 Webdesign International Festival. Under The Tub’s art direction I got the pleasure of putting together a complete identity package for the festival including print materials, banners, attendee name badges, t-shirts, posters, promo fliers, and lots of other things I’m probably forgetting. And then I got to photograph the entire event. I loved seeing it all come together and visually telling the story that web design doesn’t have to be so stale and technical – it can be fluid, organic, engaging, and – dare I say it – beautiful.
In the time since cre824, I’ve been able to work on all sorts of projects (web-based and offline) for clients and peers (massive fun working with the amazing team at Armchair Media on a few gigs.) In short, this has been exactly the kind of studio learning experience that I began looking for about a year ago.
The pull to Dallas is completely personal (not professional), but leaving regularly scheduled gainful employment places me squarely in the path of so much potential to try new things, learn even more, and further dive into collaborating with likeminded people on projects and big ideas. I’ll be launching a new portfolio soon (thanks to M.A. Turner), and putting myself out there in Dallas (and elsewhere) to see where I might fit in the best. If you have any Dallas leads or contacts, or just interesting people you think I need to meet, please don’t hesitate to send me an email. I make a good lunch date.
Thanks for coming along on the next little step of the journey. I’m excited.
Update: I got a few emails asking, so, yes, I will still be doing work for The cre824 Group in a freelance capacity as we prepare for cre824 2007. Exciting stuff is on the way. Go be our friend on MySpace to keep up with the juicy details.