Making our homepage!
As of writing, we don't really have a good home-page for folks. Our site is just a write freely instance, with some attached subdomains.
Well, Ari and I have been hard at work designing just that! Well, I should be say, Ari is designing the site and I'm writing the content – but the point remains the same. We want to make something minimalistic that imparts very little visual identity on members of the collective. It's not the goal of the collective to insist on branding or a particular visual style after all.
We've taken great inspiration from the modern indie-web movement, as well as a number of sites like msx.horse. Ari and I are both in love with the way that these sites make space for personality over function, and especially love sites that allow each different space to have its own unique vibe. We feel that interacting with The Collective's online presence should feel like you are walking into a building we all cohabitate in. We want it to feel like you can get a sense for each of our personalities and unique outlooks on the world.
From a political and ideological standpoint, we want to eschew the homogenization of identity through corporate whitewashing. We want our collective to be just as messy, creative, and daring as our members. To us, The Collective is less something to take seriously and more of a club for cool people. Hopefully our site will eventually feel like that.
For now however, you can expect a very simple and “business-lite” approach to the core pages on the site – again trying not to impart a visual identity on members.
Stay tuned for more, and as always: point your feed reader at our feed to get the latest as it comes out!