Team Blog

Chief of design Matias Corea hosted a little Helvetica 101 session with the Behance team last week. For those who haven't seen the documentary about the classic typeface - which, by the way, is required viewing for new hires at Behance - it is ubiquitous on the web and in design circles. Here he is illuminating the differences between Arial and Helvetica, after which he gave us a quiz. We all passed! Check out this chart to spot the difference yourself, and then take a quiz if you're feeling inspired.

The Behance team was just invited to take part in HP's "Input/Output" interview series.

So far, the series has included interviews with folks such as Chris Anderson at WIRED  and George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente. HP has asked us to help cover the conversation with next week's  interviewee, best-selling author,  Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class.

We are certainly interested in the rise and growth the the "creative class," and we look forward to sharing some of the highlights/insights from this interview. The interview starts at 2pm EST on Monday, December 14th. You can follow some of the commentary on our team's unofficial twitter account: @behanceteam (as opposed to the standard one that is less conversational: @behance ).

PS: Many thanks to HP for helping plan this event and inviting us to participate - as a sponsor of Behance, they help make it possible for us to keep up and running...  Gracias.

On Friday, November 20th, our very own Chief of Design, Matias Corea, spoke at one of NYC's monthly Creative Mornings meetups. The events feature an eclectic gathering of creatives and a keynote speaker discussing a variety of industry topics.

You can see more pics from the event here.

For the second year in a row, the Behance team was pleased to play a special sponsorship role and provide a limited edition 10th Anniversary "Action Book" for attendees at the National Design Awards.

Pictured here, from left to right, are Behance team members Scott Belsky, Matias Corea, Alex Krug, Zach McCullough, and Oscar Ramos Orozco.

Apple has approved and posted version 2.0 of the iPhone application for Action Method Online. The new version is, in fact, an entirely redesigned application, resulting from over seven months of design and development.

As Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance, explained, "Our goal was simple: To make Action Method the absolute BEST collaborative task management application available for the iPhone. We wanted it to seamlessly sync (and back-up) with the online version of the application, enable the user to organize their Action Steps by Project, Due Date, Color, Who Delegated It, Priority, or any other keyword."

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As 2010 approaches, our team found ourselves sitting around the table and taking inventory of what has transpired since we started working together in 2006.

What started as a bold experiment to organize the creative world's work has now become the leading online network for creative professionals. Here are a few updates that we're thrilled to share:

• The Behance Network now receives over 16 million pageviews per month from over 3.5 million visitors, and an increasing amount of this attention is being directed at the new "Served" sites like TypographyServed and FashionServed.

• While creating their online portfolios of projects, users can publish projects using a variety of Creative Commons licensing options as well as their own preferences. Projects are eligible to be showcased by leading curators on other sites around the web.

• Top agencies, galleries, and creative companies report using Behance to recruit talent - whether by searching the network or posting creative jobs. A number of agencies site Behance as their #1 source for finding talent.
  

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For one evening, the Behance team ceased all designing, programming, writing, and philosophizing...and turned 100% to cooking.

We were halfway decent.

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CreativeXpert, a podcast focused on design, recently interviewed Scott on all things Behance, including the joys of appreciations, the "creative's compromise," and attraction as the secret to productivity.

Check out the interview here.

Those who start taking action in mid-August deserve some special treatment...

Just a quick post letting you know that the Behance team is providing a special 25% off discount to those who upgrade their Action Method Online accounts this week using the following codes.

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