🐰Community Updates: Design Challenge, IRL events (San Francisco, Vancouver, Istanbul, & more), and a new comic!
🐰Community Updates: Design Challenge, IRL events (San Francisco, Vancouver, Istanbul, & more), and a new comic!
Hey Buddies! We have some exciting events happening online and IRL around the world. Also a new comic heavily inspired by the SF AI startup culture 👀
We recently hosted a meetup in Istanbul (special thanks to Atakan) and are excited to bring Design Buddies IRL all around the world in San Francisco and way beyond!
Email Design Buddies Founder Grace Ling (grace@designbuddies.community) if you’d like a Design Buddies meetup in your city or us to sponsor you to host your own!
Online Event - Design Challenge with Adobe + Prizes
Welcome back to another annual creative challenge hosted by Design Buddies and Adobe Creative Career! We’re happy to be doing this for our 3rd year in a row.
Use everything you know about art and design to create projects based on creative prompts and show off your skills for a chance to receive a prize, such as: Adobe CC subscription, t-shirts, hats, totes, magnets, and pin sets!
Challenge Dates - we’re alternating submission in each of our Discord servers every week
Week 1: Design your own planet: July 21st - July 27th (Design Buddies)
Week 2: Design your own food: July 28th - August 3rd (Adobe Creative Career)
Week 3: August 4th - August 10th (Design Buddies)
Week 4: August 11th - August 17th (Adobe Creative Career)
In-Person Events
Come and get some Design Buddies stickers and make new friends at all our events!
San Francisco:
Fri Aug 2, 5:30 pm: We’ll be at the Tech Intern Mixer tomorrow as a featured guest. Hosted by our friends at Intern Ship!
Sat Sep 7: We’ll also be at the Nas Summit as a partner. Come connect with other creatives and RSVP in our Design Buddies Nas Summit community (new)
Vancouver, Canada:
We’ll be hosting a meetup at the UX x UX conference and also attending! Founder Grace Ling will be doing a lightning talk and facilitating a meetup about life beyond your job title!
Use code FLUFFLE40 for a discount on your tickets here!
Comic - Legend of Long Bunny, the goddess of AI
By Grace Ling! Hand drawn while bored on the airplane. Not AI generated! Stay tuned for volume 2
We’re also launching FluffleAI soon, your personalized design career roadmap. Sign up for our waitlist here for early access: https://www.earlycareer.ai
🐰 About Design Buddies
Design Buddies is a community where you level up your design career. Land jobs, improve your design skills, and make friends. We have resources, events, design challenges, job boards, fun perks, and more. Founded by Grace Ling
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