I’ve struggled for a long time over how to describe what I do. Art director? Strategist? Front-end developer? Speaker? Consultant? Full-time employee (hint, hint)? In semi-frustration I decided on “Interactive. Booyah!”. My intention is simply to create enough interest that a potential employer (hint, hint) might look a bit deeper into who I am and what I do. Is this a good strategy? I’ll let you know.

This presentation is a bit different from the previous version. It’s been tweaked to appeal to a broader audience, and generally refined. I think it reads a bit better, and makes more sense as a stand alone piece.

The slides are available as a PDF for download (20.6MB), or you can view them in slideshare format below – note that slideshare changed the font used on the slides, which messes up the layout slightly. For best experience, download the PDF.

The goal of the week is to create opportunities for people in these two different groups to learn and work together. We’ve got some crazy ideas brewing, and plan on having a lot of fun.

We’ve temporarily called the week “Social Tech for Social Change”, but we all feel that the name is too cumbersome. Rather than deciding what to call this thing in a vacuum, I figured we’d put it out to the intended audience to see which name resonates best with you.

Please have a look at the names below – note these aren’t logos, I’ve just made the names pretty ’cause that’s the way I roll. At the bottom of the post is a poll. You can make multiple selections. Go! Go! Go!

A few months ago, my friend Sean Howard and I got very drunk on expensive white wine and strong Quebec beer (oy, the hangover!). We discovered that we share a passion for, um, passion. Over the following weeks, we met a couple of times to explore models of how passion affects people’s decisions, what passion means, how it’s measured, and to drink more wine.

I was very honored when Sean asked me to contribute the design for an e-book he was putting together specifically on passion and it’s role in the economy. Some seriously big-brained people. You may want to check the authors out on Twitter:

• Matthew Milan
• Charles Edward Frith
• Peter Flaschner
• Alan Wolk
• Katie Chatifeld
• Mike Arauz

• Mack Collier
• Mike Wagner
• Gavin Heaton
• Ellen Di Resta
• Scott Suthren
• Sean Howard

The Passion Economy pdf is released under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. You are welcome to download, re-upload, distribute and do with as you see fit. I hope you enjoy it. Download at will.

• The desire to better show off my work
• Put some ideas to test
• Better pull together my various online activities

Here are a few shots from my initial brainstorming notes:

I threw the invitation below together in about an hour, and I’m pretty happy with it. Thought I’d share!

Type is still not finalized, but this is pretty close to finished.

The mark is inspired by two-way communication, global reach, waves, coming together, etc. It’s an evolution of the mark I originally designed for flashlightdesign.com, way back in 2003.

The font is Gloriola from fontfont. It’s deliciously modern, with a nice heft.

I’ll be tweaking theblogstudio.com in the next couple of days when we officially launch the logo.