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TheRyanFord

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Former Creative Director/Head of Design @ deviantART.com, from ~2000 to 2012. Before I was officially the Head of Design, it was more unofficial—I'd help make sure the site had the graphics and elements it needed back in the early days while I went to school. I have long since moved on, but there was a time when this website was the center of my digital universe. Although I still want the world to have a digital place where everyone can share their creative spirit, grow their artistic talents, and expand their worlds...well, this website used to be that place but maybe it isn't so much anymore.

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Yes that's me.

Yes, you definitely do. They used to be rich, but I think the discussions have migrated to Reddit.

I don't know anything about any drugs anyone took, legitimately. But many ideas were motivated by encounters with people in person.

Much of the featureset was driven by Angelo's personal ideas and not necessarily an objective analyzation of what would provide most value and revenue. However, I do hold that an underlying goal was to connect artists with one another, at minimum.