How did you come to be at QBN? Tell us the story, no matter how dull.
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- drgs15
There was a standard list of design related websites which everyone visited
- Also thisContinuity
- Yupbabydick_
- +1section_014
- stumbled across Newstoday and stayed for the rideGardener
- Samemort_
- the dullest!nb
- Newstoday, K10K and yayhooray was all I knew back in the dayCalderone2000
- YupYakuZoku
- Linkdupcannonball1978
- Worked with Jason and Folkert at Agency.com and they got me on newstoday and I have never left - still my home screenriteshpatel
- heavy rotation with computer lovedoesnotexist
- 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.
- palimpsest11
Came for the design, stayed for the drama.
- 'stuck around for the PSBs and FMTs' in the middle there, and I'm done.Nairn
- Came for the design got addicted to the drama.Chimp
- Cue crushed blacks incidentjagara
- And shoeboxes.
And idea-nicking directors who did something for Forever21.
And my guy, Brett Fucking Bash.Continuity
- spl33nidoru8
QBN, K10K, PixelSurgeon, Design is Kinky....
Despite a much contested (by me at least) redesign in the '10s, QBN prevailed
- I’ve never visited any of thosenb
- Gotta say, the Newstoday welcoming chime was a distinguishing feature that made it specialspl33nidoru
- @nb Those are classic. Same with threeohContinuity
- These websites had a block somewhere on front page linking to the others.
There was a sense of community, and finding one ultimately led you to the others.spl33nidoru - Surfstation, dreamless....drgs
- yayhooray, threeoh...koma_
- nb12
My favorite thing about reading all these posts is now remembering how back in the early ‘00s it was really common to learn about a website by just seeing the site on someone else’s screen and asking them what it was.
The good ol’ days
- scarabin8
I had just come back from ‘Nam and was on my way to visit an old friend, when i was stopped and harassed by the local sherriff. He and his goons wrestled me back to the station, where one of them attempted to shave me with a safety razor ‘cause he didn’t like my hair. I lost it, unleashing my fury, fueled by the horrors i saw during my service, and the anger i felt for these simpleton fucks. Before I knew it it was a full-on manhunt. I ducked into a nearby forest where i used my hard-earned survival skills to pick them off one-by-one using various traps and strategies learned from the Vietnamese people. I narrowly escaped with my life, but at what cost?
- 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
- pango5
it was during college. was doing graphic design related research and landed here I think. stayed for the shenanigan.
- Just the one?Nairn
- The legendary shenanigan of 2009.palimpsest
- It's a single, decades-long, on-going shenanigan. It's the perpetual shenanigan machine.Continuity
- ^pango
- also stayed for the swiss design.pango
- We don't talk about the shenanigan, lest it hears its name.garbage
- garbage5
Googling an AE problem.
Forgot my password for my one-off account, lurked for a few years and then thought "Yeah, I wanna be more engaged. There's a lot of talented people here."
Then fucking ORAZAL certed me out of spite, and if I recall it was during a time when he was being incredibly shitty, out of public favor, and I called him out on it.
Now I have my Scarlet Letter. He even joked about it in my bio.
- 'Certed out of spite' genuinely made me laugh out loud.Continuity
- Made you a triptych then certified 'out of spite'.
QBN never dissapoints!palimpsest - Come for the design, stay for the drama.palimpsest
- Stay for the Drama for a Better Tomorrow.garbage
- Nairn7
It was 20-odd years ago, like I can remember.
- Well, fuckt, what does it say about me that I can remember, then?
I need a life, is what.Continuity
- Well, fuckt, what does it say about me that I can remember, then?
- scarabin4
Did anyone else go to the newstoday mad mixer hosted by mediatemple in LA?
I think me joining had something to do with that night.
- Tell us about this wild night on the townnb
- I had just started college. Was there with a girl from one of my classes. Had my first ever gin and tonic (it was awful), snagged a bunch of (mt) stickersscarabin
- I met some folks i don’t remember, then we bounced to some thing at the standard. Nothing too excitingscarabin
- I was all set to go but I am basket case introvert... so all I have is a qbn newstoday t-shirt someone was selling b4 the event to remind me of me social anxiejonny_quest_lives
- remind me of my social anxiety.jonny_quest_lives
- wish i had snagged one! i think i got there latescarabin
- you didn't miss muchscarabin
- Awe man, I was there. One of my earliest memories of NT.ArmandoEstrada
- 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
- cannonball19786
I killed a man by accident. I was on my way to get cigs from the bar real quick and cross some train tracks in the foggy dusk when a hobo jumped out from the other side of the berm.
“Qooooobs” he rasped, wiggling his fingers through his fingerless gloves at me.
I told him I didn't want to be bothered but he chased after me, hauling a strangely flat hobo satchel on his back. I ran down the tracks for a bit hoping I could lose him but when I crossed he tackled around my legs and we both fell down the gravel.
A short struggle ensued. As the bell for an approaching train began to ring I hit him over the head with a brick and he flew limp to one side.
No response. No pulse. No wallet or ID, but the strange satchel contained a binder with the word “portfolio” stenciled across. Within the leaflets, strange printouts of unrelated paper stock, drawings, logos.
Everything bore a strange and unnecessary style to it where all the lines ran at 45 degree angles. The last leaflet bore a stack of what seemed like business card-shaped compact disks. On the back of this satchel, a sticker with the letters Q B and N.
Suddenly, a hand shot up, grabbed me by the collar, to which I responded by beating the mans skull into a soupy pulp with my brick as the train flew by in a deafening blizzard of clattering steel.
I have since been looking for clues as to who this man was. A uni student? A young designer. I sometimes interview youngsters for a fake, nonexistent job hoping I might see his mushed up face someday whereupon I might redeem myself.
- aliastime3
~2003 An old girlfriend told me about NT. Her ex was a member here. So basically I stole one of y'alls girls back in the day :P
- lolKrassy
- dealwithit.gifKrassy
- Had to be milfhunter.palimpsest
- Haha What’s she doing nownb
- 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.
- fooler4
I think I searched for how to make a lens flare effect in photoshop or some kind of free PS filters and stumbled across NewsToday.
I was blown away by the community and the talent and have been here ever since.
- 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
- Continuity6
Ended up here because I worked on the same team as Mr_Alex, and he'd have this open all the time at work and I'd see it.
Serves me right, I suppose, for not minding my own business.