Happy Fourth of July!

Here’s the quick update: A new about page is up (pasted below the jump for you rss/e-mail subscribers).  It’s worth reading, as it has a little more details on the mission of this site.

Also, you can find a list of the most recent comments around T.I.D. posted on the left.  Hopefully this will help spur conversation!  All the comments flowing through right now are awesome, but there are a bunch of “lurkers” who are just reading and not commenting.  What’s the deal?!  Make YOUR voice heard, too!

That INDIE Dude.

That’s me - Alex Linebrink.

If you’re looking for the philosophy behind this site, check out my first post — The Primer.

Here’s the basics, though:  I’m a freelance web & graphics designer and social marketing consultant, and I’m fed up with new, talented designers & brands coming along and just copying everything else out there.  I’m tired of the growing lack of originality, and I think the rest of the world is too.  I want what everyone else wants: brands and products that are honestly breaking new ground (and not just saying they are), and designers who are trend makers (not trend followers).

Thus, enter indie.  To be indie is to be independent.  It’s to be yourself.  It is to be real; not another synthetic copy of what is “hot”.  That Indie Dude is about encouraging designers, brands, and everyone else to just be themselves.

So, as you might have guessed, this site is all about the community.  I want to help the community that hangs out around T.I.D. be themselves in the best way possible.  I want to help the find the latest trends so that they can see what they jive with, NOT so that they can copy them.  I want to help this community know itself first and foremost, and to use that to fuel creativity.  I have a feeling that if we can figure out who we are, we can start to be original again: being the new progressives, innovators, and trend creators.

Sound good?  It should.

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Interested?  Have comments or suggestions?  Want to work with That Indie Dude on encouraging this renewed creativity?  Feel free  to contact me.   If you’re interested in my design & marketing work, check out my professional pseudonym, Unstoppable Studios.

Tags: about, announcements, be real, updates

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