How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
- Started
- Last post
- 73 Responses
- YakuZoku2
I think I found this place from k10k or sum
- jonny_quest_lives5
- The Americans call it Swiss Design...jonny_quest_lives
- Lol. Awesomescarabin
- I still got mineYakuZoku
- I have a few of these. Got them at that event Krop put together at the Getty. Met a few cool peeps there. :)sea_sea
- It stays.Chimp
- Worked with Jason and Folkert at Agency.com and they got me on newstoday and I have never left - still my home screenriteshpatel
- microkorg2
What MonNom said.
Used to hang out in Dreamless.org (even had the t-shirt! - given by Joshua at FlashForward, London).
When dreamless ended we all kinda migrated to Newstoday.
- Jrdntnnr4
I googled "good for nothing magazine london". One of the first results is a post from 17 years ago on QBN.
- jagara5
Worked at a studio collective in Copenhagen with https://www.qbn.com/homeostatic/… back in the Newstoday era (2005). Eventually signed up myself. And now look at me.
- Krassy4
Kanye West told me about it
- Ianbolton6
Because what other website, for designers, would have a thread which feels threatening and inviting at the same time?
My name’s Ianbolton and that’s why I’m on QBN
- sab3
Work flew me up to Sydney from Melbourne to see the Semi-Permanent design conference. Newstoday were one of the guest speakers. Can't recall the year now but it was awesome! Anyone else go to that?
- 5timuli5
I spent all my time back then on tDR, and I think someone over there mentioned Newstoday (2001-ish). Pretty sure a few folks came over from there.
- prophetone13
- T.R.O.Y.
https://www.qbn.com/…prophetone - I like how the emphasis wasn't so focused on the chat / PV. Perhaps that's why there aren't so many design related chats anymore.Chimp
- My eyes!nb
- Mm, delicious pixel fonts.Continuity
- THAT'S what it was!! I could never remember what it was before NT. Damn.formed
- ha, I think this is how I ended up here too.
@Chimp - perversely, i love how much focus so many had into those two tiny boxes off to the far right :)Nairn
- T.R.O.Y.
- CyBrainX2
20 years ago I shared an office with someone who had newstoday.com as his startup page for browser windows. Every time he opened a new window I heard that awful chime until I finally asked him what was causing it.
- Same exact thing here.monospaced
- ^ I think I remember you telling me that once.CyBrainX
- sea_sea4
My designer bf at the time was on it all the time. There was lots of cool inspo going around and some funny characters. I started lurking, about a year after I decided I wanted to be part of the conversation.
- OBBTKN5
Woahhh... This was 20 years ago!!
Probably, after clicking on a directory in another "design related forum".
It has been useful for me to improve the little English I know... and to catch my ex-boss while he was spying on my browsing history.
The jingle gave him away, lol
- cannonball19783
Was pointed to it while in college in 2001. It was Newstoday, and there was a gray site and also a brown site if I remember correctly? K10k, Surfstation, etc were all regular visits along with this one.
Newstooodaaaay! My roommate always sung it after I went to the site, with different variations. Boozetoday, Boobstoday, etc.
- Chimp4
It was 2004 and I was designing the Big Issue (magazine sold by the homeless). My Co worker introduced me to this new drug called News Today. I’ve been consuming it on and off since. I can never seem to get clean.
- thumb_screws2
Around 2002/03 either a co-worker got me on to it or it was linked to via Design is Kinky? Looong time ago. Lurked for years but think I signed up while I while I was living in London so I could contribute to what you listening to and FMT threads. I used to get amped for the FMT threads, exposed me to so much music I would never of come across through my usual circles.
- BaskerviIle3
A friend at uni (on a graphic design degree) introduced me to Newstoday. I lurked for a bit, then finally signed up in 2004 during my first proper job. If I had a technical illustrator/PS or web question, I came here and got answers...learnt tons from people on here.
Had my folio featured on the front page early on and even got profiled in some design magazines back in the day (including an interview in a french design publication). Somewhere I still have an email conversation I had with Jason Kristofer.Along the way there have been some fun projects:
The Sketchbook exchange, where we all filled in a spread in a moleskine and then mailed it off to the next person.
Remember the QBN book that we planned to publish? A Better Tomorrow. I still have the artwork for my spread somewhere too.I went to a couple of London pub meetups over the years, which seems a distant memory now.