Hmm that was a pretty good weekend actually. I went to the DesignateOnline Forum meetup on saturday. Seems this is the third time it’s held, and basically it’s a bunch of graphic designers from all over the UK come down to London, talk socialise and generally have a bit of fun, putting faces to names, networking and talking about stuff they all genuinely love to talk about with other people of the same mindset.

It was brilliant. Had a bit of a false start as the main party boys (Aaron really) was a wee bit late. It’s not his fault the man had to come down from Liverpool, while I had to take the Northern Line 30minutes down.

The thing is I didn’t have much expectation really and yet at the end of the night I left having met 11 new great people (I know we were eleven in the end because we kept counting each other as we were travelling on the tube making sure we didn’t loose anyone,…which we did end up doing several times through out the night).

What I loved the most was we could talk about typography and firefox over IE (which I can’t believe is still an issue, there is no issue IE sucks major ass and no longer sets the trend, but rather follows it, long gone are the days where IE was a slick browser, GONE I TELL YOU). If someone said the name Jon Burgerman he wasn’t looked at as a freak. I could say RSS and while some people didn’t know what I was talking about they were damn interested in it.

So to all the guys at the DO forum thanks for a wicked day/evening. Oh yeah and I won the ‘Design a Beermat’ ipod mini competition…which was nice.