Rant: I stopped cold emailing designers for collabs and started meeting them at the Tuesday critique night in Portland

Jade Lee · 2026-10-20T04:25:03.854723+00:00

Two years back I was blasting 40 emails a week and getting maybe one reply, but after 6 months of showing up in person at the Alberta St studio meetup I've got 3 regular partners and a shared client, so has anyone else found that just being in the room beats a clever pitch?

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