Hasta La Creative!

First off I’d like to apologize for the size of the image, but I think in this case it’s worth it.

A little over two years ago, a small group of chilean design students decided to generate an online space that allowed design students from all its branches and schools to share their projects and create contact and collaboration networks that led to improve and enhance the national design scene. That website was Diseño Emergente (Emerging Design).

Now, with an insanely powerful base of monthly visitors and projects, Diseño Emergente is, without a doubt, the space where chilean (and slowly more latinamerican) design students converge and share, debate and display their ideas.

By chance of life, I had the pleasure of being one of the first few members of this community and for a while I was part of their staff, with whom to this day I keep a very close relationship.

This is why seeing progress like the one I’ll refer to is trully a reason for pride and satisfaction, knowing that in Chile there are people who dare to take the plunge, to go against the odds, and do it right, with love for what they do and the seriousness and responsability it deserves.

The reason for this slightly long post is to tell you about the release of Diseño Emergente 2.0,. A total review of the website’s interface and functions was made directly from the input of its own users and not just what the staff thought was right.

Even if you’re not a spanish-speaking person, I encourgae you to take a look at the portfolios section, I’m sure you’ll find a few things that’ll blow your mind.

For someone like me, who’s passionate about design, programming and interaction, this website really is a luxury. A whole bunch of new features that speed up your reading time, enhance relationships between users and also enhance the participation of 3rd party users from chilean student design.

So I’m just leaving the invitation open for you to check out the all new Diseño Emergente, ’cause even with its many haters, it’s impossible to deny its real cultural and design weight in chilean society.

My biggest congratulations, and deepest respect to the staff that daily tries to take chilean design to the next level. People like these are the ones that count.

Good ol’ Benjamín Jiménez from CódigoPin was kind enough to let me know today of a major glitch on my website that didn’t allow people to view older post pages.
 
When fixing it I realized it’s been there for a couple months. Huge mistake. Luckily it’s already been fixed, so now you can see the website as it should be.
 
Thanks again to Pin for the heads up.
 
And about that finally back part, thing is that almost a month ago my computer died and after many many attempts, I’ve finally made it 100% functional, so now I’ll be resuming the usual post frequency around here.
 
Greetings to all.

This is kind of a local event in Santiago, Chile. So if you’re not in the area maybe you won’t be interested in this post… Anyways…
 
My homie Veggie is spreading the word about the release party being held for his NoFearToPaper project.
 
At the event you’ll be partying with a lot of design people and also be able to see all the little boxes that made the cut.
 
It looks to be quite an event so if everything goes well, I’ll be seeing you there.
 
To view the bigger image just click on it.