This blog has been created for a few purposes:

• It’s a good business idea
• Art Frick Design LOVES coffee
• By helping other people, we get better!

Here at Art Frick Design, we run on coffee.  We work in coffee shops and live the ultimate freelance design fantasy of laptops, lattes and wifi.  Being located in New York City, there’s a coffee shop on EVERY corner.  AFD goes to each shop, takes pictures and writes reviews.  We have conducted lots of research by pouring over Google and scouring countless blogs.  Unfortunatly, there doesn’t seem to be a single website that has really taken the time to provide reviews for these types of places.  As designers we need to know if there is seating, wifi, outlets, what’s the vibe?  These are the questions we have set out to answer, and answer we will.

We’ve also spent a lot of time looking at tutorials.  With the rise of ActionScript 3, we’ve found that our old AS 2 ways just don’t cut it anymore.  People are doing really cool stuff with web-based technologies and programming and we want people to know.  We are setting out to create a community of people from novice to professionals that are looking for resources to help build better, bigger, and more bad ass things.  We want to know what other people are doing so we can keep abreast of trends, changes and technologies.

In the world of Web 2.0 (seems to be contemporary existentialism, see this post…) we as solution providers are having to come up with more creative, dynamic ideas, styles and methods of doing work.  In an age where web-communities of every kind are popping up, we need to stay on the forefront of the discussion by developing and creating new ways of doing and seeing things.  Art Frick Design believes this can and will be done via collaboration and synergy between individuals and groups.  We understand this is lofty and high-minded but hey, why not, we went to art school.

At the end of the day, we want people to use us and this blog as a resource and a place to ask questions and get answers.  Showing and teaching other people has a way of making us all better at what we do.  Collaboration, Coffee, and Computers.