Profile for BlameTheSuburbs - Dudes! The company I worked for just launched an Open Source product!

BlameTheSuburbs aka Saman Bemel-Benrud is a 22.78 year old boy, has been a member since October 5, 2005, has scored 15724 submissions, giving an average score of 1.76.

URL: http://mfmapparel.etsy.com

Jul 14 '09 by BlameTheSuburbs

16 Comments

Watch this Share:

Dudes! The company I worked for just launched an Open Source product!

Hey! This is sort of random, but also relevant. As some of you may know, after graduating from college I got hired as a graphic designer totally out of the blue by this company, basically because they saw my Threadless work. They mostly do open source software development and build websites for NGO's like the World Bank and the UN.

I've been there for about a month now, and one of my first major projects just went live! I did all the illustration for the Open Atrium website. Including this:
translate.openatrium.com and some illustrations for the "about" section, like this one:

Steve The Great on Jul 14 '09 at 9:10pm

woah that's a neat website.

tracerbullet on Jul 14 '09 at 9:12pm

open source ftw!

stubby43 on Jul 14 '09 at 9:14pm

Thats awesome and I am in love with open source projects even if my coding ability is non existent.

BlameTheSuburbs on Jul 14 '09 at 9:45pm

It's a pretty cool place to work. They're really open to letting me go crazy with design.

chelly on Jul 14 '09 at 9:52pm

hotsauce!

that site looks cool and i have no idea what it is.

2 days later

ilovecomputerz on Jul 17 '09 at 9:26pm

Dear Saman,

That is THE best designed open source site I have ever seen. Great Job!

For people who don't know what this program does, it is an open source alternative to Basecamp. And Basecamp is a web app that companies use to have workers collaborate online.

All The Best,
i♥computers

spacesick 2 on Jul 17 '09 at 9:35pm

that's awesome, sam!

Edword on Jul 17 '09 at 9:40pm

congrats on the sweat gig!

BlameTheSuburbs on Jul 17 '09 at 11:03pm

Thanks! Yeah, ilovecomputerz, the lead designer at Development Seed is really good. I just did the illustration work. He did the rest. He also designed all the Open Atrium themes and stuff.

Goldendust on Jul 17 '09 at 11:29pm

Hehe... not that this is your thing, but I just spotted a typo.
It says "suck in iCal"

on the /features page.

Also, wow. That is rather a big thing! And it looks great!

Goldendust on Jul 17 '09 at 11:29pm

Oops... wrong screencap. That was a little large, sorry :P

8 days later

SillyCloud on Jul 26 '09 at 2:45pm

You used inkscape too?

BlameTheSuburbs on Jul 26 '09 at 2:57pm

Yeah, that's all inkscape. At work I only use inkscape (we've got the whole open source thing going on).

ilovecomputerz on Jul 28 '09 at 3:09am

What OS do you run your Inkscape on? And does it detect pressure from a tablet?

BlameTheSuburbs on Jul 28 '09 at 7:15am

a) osx. i'm a noob.
b) I don't use a tablet at all at work. I've never used one with Inkscape. If I use a tablet, I use it with either illustrator's blob brush or Flash's brush. I'm not much of a tablet person though.

7 days later