Greg van Brug

Late this past Sunday night, I launched the Philadel­phia Design Direc­tory, a personal project I had been work­ing on for the past 4 months. The response has been huge and I’m pretty over­whelmed by the amount of people that have contacted me in the past two days to get listed or to show their support. I’m not usually one to brag so I thought I’d share some of the responses I’ve received about the site.

“Thanks again for doing this site — fantastic!”

“Just wanted to say thanks for creat­ing such a great resource for the Philadel­phia creative community!”

“Look­ing forward to the site expand­ing and grow­ing even more!”

“Very cool. This may help me change my life!”

“It’s absolutely beau­ti­ful, and by far the best resource I’ve seen for connect­ing our community!”

In my port­fo­lio, I describe this project as an exper­i­ment. What I mean by that is that I’m adopt­ing an open source philos­o­phy to the site by open­ing up the devel­op­ment process of the site. I will soon publish a public changelog so site users can see what is planned for the site, give feed­back on the site, and how it has evolved. If you have any sugges­tions, do get in touch.

I’m really glad the site has already helped so many people and really hope it contin­ues to help build our commu­nity. I couldn’t be more excited about this project.