Sidebar Creative

Steve Smith of Ordered List (known principally to me as the author of the excellent Tiger Admin and Feedburner plugins for WordPress) has teamed up with Jonathan Snook of Snook.ca (whose blog I regularly read), Dan Rubin of SuperfluousBanter and Bryan Veloso of Revyver (whom I confess to not knowing so well but I’ll be checking them out).

Their venture is called Sidebar Creative and I wish them well.

In many ways, they demonstrate what I always hoped Jon, Si and myself would become under the Design Inc name that we jointly hold. A small group of independent designers and developers, joining forces to fill the gap between one-man-band freelancers and the full-service design agency. Doing better work together than they could tackle individually.

Perhaps even eventually abandoning client work to focus our resources on our own business goals.

So far our accomplishments have been limited to the occasional freelance job and a website that is so neglected I don’t wish to link to it. Part of my reason for starting this site was that I’m in my late twenties and no longer content to wait for that future to happen. To take the first step by finding out if I had anything to say. It seems that I have plenty… Going forward, I’ll build my own platform that I can use to spring new projects from.

Maybe one day Design Inc will be some sort of reality and this blog will join it. In the meantime please excuse me, I have a contact form to program