A 🏠 for Designers
Introducing Sketchbook a new community on HIVE. Sketchbook is a commons for exploring art, graphic design, UI, UX, 3D modeling, AR, VR, exhibitions, architecture, creative coding, and much more.
📐 Rules
- ✍️ Original Visuals (bee 🐝 yourself)
- 💡 Think Creatively (what belongs here that can't belong elsewhere?)
- #️⃣ Mind Your Tags (keep content on-topic)
- 💬 Feedback Matters (share constructive comments)
- 🎭 Trolls Pay Tolls (don’t hate, celebrate)
Here are some sample sketchbook-friendly tags: #design #art #illustration #graphicdesign #infographic #UI #UX #3D #AR #VR #generative #exhibition #architecture #creativecoding
📍 Why Here, Why Now?
New tech needs an artist’s touch. Blockchain apps, dapps, and daos all desperately need better designed experiences. Creatives can help, but creatives also need to be exposed to what it is that they're helping. That's why we need more "sketchbooks" - more public places to flip through and learn from. HIVE provides a new kind of gathering ground where design talents can learn, collide, and collaborate.
📈 Votes vs. Value
One goal of Sketchbook is not to vote for the sake of voting alone. As an ecosystem, we must find ways for votes to build sustainable value in the form of skill-sharing. The point of a vote shouldn’t be to get paid (oyy, that’s Steem talk). In the coming weeks, Sketchbook will be testing out design-themed open calls / a series of challenges. Hopefully, this community can become a place that apps (of all chains) will look to in search of ideas and skillsets that they need to make a project real.
👋 Background
I’m Kirk, a designer living in(doors) Brooklyn. Some of you might remember me from @sndbox and our creative incubator project on Steem. It's been over a year since I've blogged on-chain. I'm excited to be back and to learn more about HIVE!
What have I been working on? I'm part of the founding and design team at BLDG BLOX; a civic technology company. We’re utilizing blockchain tech as a way to mediate the big decisions across changing neighborhoods. I'm also an artist with a fat stack of sketchbooks.
Lastly - a wise whale once said to "take joy in watching the results of our collective creativity unfold." This project would not be possible without the support of @steemed, a long-time advocate of creative value in the blockchain world.
Not a good designer myself. Subscribed for sake of learning. :)
Great to have you. We're all learning here :)
this excited me. i can't wait to share some of my drawings.:)
What a great idea @voronoi! I'll be helping to spread the word.
Thank you so much Eric!
You're welcome! Thanks for all that you do!
Im glad that youre back here on Hive! Sndbros are slowly finding their way back here as it seems:) Ive had around a year-long pause too:D
Hey hey Fingersik! Super glad to see a familiar face :D
I'm super excited to see you 'back' on Hive (welcome!) and start out with a creative impulse for the community! Lovely, subscribing, even though these topics are not my strong suit, would love to see what others are doing. Cheers.
Welcome! I love the concept and I'm looking forward to supporting creators here.
Excellent. I am a Hive Artist.... just joined your Community ... will share my ink drawings and paintings here
This is good news! I would like utopian to come back, for the us designers, there is no place now on the blockchain.
All right now ... fascinating ... I have fractal art to bring to the table...
I am glad that my friend Kirk did not let the project @sndbox die which I remember with great joy since I participated in some of its dynamics and contests and had the gratification of winning some good places in those contests!
Thanks to @steemed for the support towards this kind of initiatives, it's great to know that we have investors that support our work and our contribution here within the block chain!
Thank you for creating another space to give more joy to life!
I am MARS!
Can somebody please explain to me how this community works? Is it simply to use the tag "sketchbook" to be part or do I have to join a group?
It's a creative community, and it's very open to your own interpretation. You don't need to use the "sketchbook" tag or anything like that :) All you need to do is subscribe/join, explore around, and if you like - you can share the artful projects you're working on.
Is there a special kind of subscribing or joining a group here?