KERNSPIRACY: A Place for Designers to Share Secrets March 31, 2010

KERNSPIRACY is a community building and peer support project for designers and creative professionals. Los Angeles is a tough place to work, and it's often easy to feel like you're out there all on your own. KERNSPIRACY is intended to address this issue by creating forums for people to ask for advice, feedback and support from their creative peers.

KERNSPIRACY hosts bi-monthly get togethers where designers and other creatives come to meet one another and trade ideas and critiques. If you're a designer, please come and bring a question, a design you'd like some feedback on or just a business card. If you know other designers, please encourage them to join you. At the very least, we can all have drinks together and complain about Quark.

In addition, KERNSPIRACY manages a corresponding e-mail discussion list to allow folks to interact between events, and to facilitate faster response times for more pressing concerns. More info is available at http://kernspiracy.com. You can also subscribe by sending an e-mail to kernspiracy-request {at} tokyofarm {dot} com with "subscribe" (no quotes) in the subject or body.

This month, thanks to the generosity of our very own Colleen Wainwright a.k.a. the communicatrix, I have a handful of second hand design-related goodies that need a new home. Hopefully, one of your homes! Here's what we're going to do...

---

WHAT'S BEING GIVEN AWAY:
1. One set of coated, uncoated and matte Pantone fanbooks, with case, from about 2001. These have been well cared for and kept zipped up in their carrying case about 95% of the time so they're in great shape and should still be pretty accurate, but I'm not guaranteeing anything. If you're unclear what I mean, it's these, only older: http://tinyurl.com/2jzahl
2. One 6" x 8" Wacom Intuos 2. A little older, but still very usable. And free, so shut yer yamhole.
3. One small portfolio book (the kind that opens like a binder), including extra sleeves.

----

HOW TO WIN WHAT'S BEING GIVEN AWAY:
1. Write a design/photography/creativity-related haiku and, if you're a member, send it to the list with the subject line "Yay Haiku!" And by haiku I mean, of course, three lines of poetry with the syllable count 5-7-5. Which isn't technically what makes a haiku, but let's not get technical. Here's one to get you started:

Serif, sans serif?
Presented both, but client
demands comic sans.

2. Or, come to this get together on Wed, 3/31 and drop your name in a hat. I'll draw a winners that night from the names of people who sent haikus and people who enter in person. If you're extra brave, you will enter in person by reading your haiku to the assembled group.

----

HOW TO WIN WHAT'S BEING GIVEN AWAY IF YOU LIVE IN ALASKA AND ARE CHRONICALLY AFRAID OF SHARING:
I don't want to leave anyone out, so if you're too far away to come to Barbara's next week and so totally super shy that you can bear to share a haiku, email me off list and I'll include your name in the drawing.

----

IMPORTANT CAVEATS ABOUT DELIVERY:
I'm willing to cover shipping to a point, but if you win and you live somewhere really far away and can't coordinate coming by my place or Barbara's to pick up your filthy lucre, I may ask you to pay for shipping via PayPal. I'm sorry I'm a cheapskate, but thems the breaks. Don't enter if you're unwilling to potentially shell out a few bucks for some otherwise free stuff.