Hi Coworking Pioneers! I’ve spent some time reading through most of the posts in this group and just started contributing so I thought it was high time for an introduction.
I’m Chris Kerins and I live in Costa Mesa, CA right on the border with Newport Beach. I’ve had the idea for a creative coworking community space for about 4 years now thinking it was my own odd one. Now though, I’ve seen that the first seeds of coworking are independently sprouting around the country and world. I’ve got a ton of ideas and questions, but I’ll try to restrict this post to an introduction and follow up with specific ideas in other posts. Feel free to ask any questions here that we can move. I’ve been working on my own as a designer in many different fields for almost 20 years. Before finishing my B. Architecture from Cal Poly SLO, I worked in Puerto Vallarta designing a children’s clinic working out of a local architect’s office with a partner. That spoiled me forever. If it wasn’t for that experience I might be a good corporate office worker. Since then I’ve worked in architecture (Hey, Jerome), graphic design, web design, illustration and set design. I received my MFA in set design from UCLA in the mid 90’s. So I definitely come to coworking from a design point of view. Currently I’m teaching and practicing arch. illustration and design, and run a web design studio. As a hobby, I am the editor of MyFirstMac.com, creating a community for Mac vets to help newbies. I know this is a big Mac group, so drop me a line if you want to participate. My vision has been a hybrid of the design studio we art and design students lived in at college, The Office in Santa Monica and a dash of community space. In my fantasyland, the space runs the whole range of community classroom/workshop/gallery to coworking café-style to rent a desk to permanent small business anchors. I can elaborate if someone is interested. I’d like to start one in the Newport/Corona del Mar/ Costa Mesa area. However, price per sq. ft. can be steep around here compared to other regions. But I'm feeling recession prices might make this a good time to start. Anyone in OC interested in discussing, drop me a line. Group Leaders, I'm also happy to give some feedback from someone relatively new to this group on the the Group site and Wiki if there's interest. That's it for now. Thanks for reading through. I'll drop more specific questions into the group soon. Chris Kerins [email protected] SITES: http://www.atomicbluedesign.com http://www.realcolorstudio.com http://www.myfirstmac.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
