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Fill/Stroke has a slightly different audience than some other places I’ve been writing about this lately, so I think it’s best to address this article in acknowledgment of that.
The three of us here are all from different parts of the country/world. I like to say I’m from Philly, even though I did a fair amount of growing up near LA. Adria is from Mexico. Tanner is from the midwest.
This, we think, makes us uniquely awesome as a team: tons of viewpoints, tons of angles to come at. However, there is one thing we can all agree on since we’ve been transplanted to the desert city of Phoenix, AZ:
This place is set to take off and be HUGE.
As far as design is concerned, you always hear about New York and LA and Austin and Chicago and Boston any other number of cities before you get down to Phoenix. Print and Communication Arts annuals always throw us in with Albuquerque and tag on the generic “Southwest” category.
Those of us in Phoenix know that’s complete shit though. Phoenix, for all its invisibility to other parts of the world, is about as great an environment for design as you can find in the world. Tons of people coming in from other parts of the country, ready to be part of this fast growing town. Different styles, ideas and ambitions, but all here, all interested and ready for this place to let itself be heard.
So, with that idea in mind, I wrote a letter to Phoenix creatives. Letting them know I was going to start something in motion that will be a way for PHX to announce its intentions to kick ass. There are great organizations here and they need more press, more ways to advertise themselves both to Phoenix and its surrounding suburbs and then eventually to the world. We’re a slightly disconnected set of designers right now, with a chance to join together and seriously mess your shit up.
Phoenix is full of interested, ambitious people ready to show off. Phoenix Design Week is going to let them do that, and its going to be huge.
Phoenix is greater than New York
Phoenix is greater than LA, Austin, Anywhere
Phoenix is greater than you know yet.
You’ll find out though, don’t worry.
An open letter to the Phoenix design community
Posted by md in communication, featured, news, phxdw on 25 March 2009.
boo-ya kee-shaw
1. Craig. 25 March 2009.
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