How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- shapesalad4
Back in the early internet days of 2002 ish, it was the done thing to put on your portfolio website, not just an About Page, Work, Contact page - but also a 'Links' page. Here you'd 'shout out' to your mates or favourite illustrators/designers and other such sites.
I'd spend many an evening getting lost in a rabbit hole of going through link pages to other link pages, stumbling across awesome portfolios and cool sites (back when there was no standard boring UI/UX rules and everyone went crazy with Flash).
And at some point someone must have linked to NewsToday. It was bookmarked and found to be *the* hub for the creative community. I remember promoting my portfolio website on there in that channel where you could post links to your stuff.
Then it change to QBN, and that white background has caused far too many late nights by keeping me awake with it's too bright white. When dark mode?
And my usual work routine is - when at that point where you know the next steps are going to be hard and you need to steel yourself to put something together - ah, just take a break and type 'qbn' in the browser. I never bookmarked and always type 'q' 'b' 'n', like a relfex.
Most the time I think, what a load of gutter trash and odd taste you lot have.. but sometimes the site is useful, or even inspiring.
- Heavybackpack was a good site for a while, but lacked the community of qbn.shapesalad