Designer Fund

Blame the designer fund: http://designerfund.com/ Oh wow, FeedBurner! A company known far and wide for its amazing design sense and its delightful user interface!

I consider myself a generalist, and have really enjoyed working across several domains (primarily design and programming) - it is quite possible to pursue a profitable career while not fitting entirely into the boxes that bosses and hr would like you to fit into. We've just launched a startup over at www.coolplaces.co.uk for which I did the design and programming, but I am not a reliable judge on whether it is excellent or not :) FYI I started in fine art, and have worked for a living in design and programming. There are many advantages to being familiar with both programming and design, and many similarities between the disciplines at a deep level (thinking through a problem holistically, balancing constraints, incorporating and developing ideas from clients). I think those advantages more than pay for any disadvantages which come with not being a specialist in one subject. In fact knowing something about several disciplines will often help inform your work in both and allow you to bring ideas form one to another - that's why many education systems require students to pursue a broad coarse of studies alongside their more narrowly focussed specialism even in higher education. As an example of cross-fertilisation helped by working on both, for design I use version control to store my work, which is a practice imported from programming which I think many designers would love to have. For most designers, the equivalent is to keep 50 files in a folder marked design-1,…

I think what you're looking for is on the homepage if you scroll: http://designerfund.com/ Shows the overview, the mentors and people involved in the program, and at the bottom, what's involved in the fund. Disclaimer: I'm in the current "batch" and have received a non-equity grant.

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