Community: Camp North

After wandering around the web, I came across an Artist Community that I have never heard of before. It is called Camp North, it's been up for only less than a Year. Camp North was founded and created by Nathaniel Milburn, who is in his second year as Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics maor at Savannah College of Art & Design, and also Corey Griffin, who helped Milburn develop Camp North and is only 15-years-old and is a junior at Palisades High School. The website is a free online community for all types of artists and allows members to upload their works and use the site as an online portfolio.

Milburns original idea of Camp North was to be an art & culture magazine; however, he decided to make the site to become also an online community for artists. He has not abandoned his original idea of creating magazines, so watch for it.

Browsing around the website, I found that the general design isn't that bad. The neon colors create a cohesive look and the type treatment for the logo is also easy on the eye. I'm not too hot with the navigational bar/tabs... but that's a small glitch. Anyway, check them out here

www.campnorth.tv!

Community: 5oup.net

IMAGE CREATED BY TOM JUDD, ONE OF THE TWO CREATORS OF 5oup.net

When surfing around the internet, I stumbled across an interesting community network called 5oup.net. The website was created by James Chambers and Tom Judd in February 2006. 5oup.net is a great place for students to show off their work and have their art seen by a wide audience.

Since it's launch 5oup has had a great reception both online and off, recieving support from Icograda, Design is Kinky, Pixelsurgeon and Computer Arts to name but a few. Our userbase has grown to over 1300 students from a huge variety of backgrounds and creative disciplines, and represents a cross section of emerging creative talent. 5oup is the only dedicated community run by students, for students.

I found to be a network site that is beautifully designed (compared to DeviantArt.com) and displays student art work perfectly. What I liked most about it is that you can find students by schools which I find very useful because you can see what is being produced by students from which ever school. Anyway, I'm waiting for the day in which I can become a member of this delicious 5oup :)

Check the site out here.