I am putting the finishing touches to a CV / Professional Skills site (I’ll do an extensive blog post of all tasty design elements for the official site-live, which should hopefully be in the next few days). The concept theme behind the site is the idea of nodes and connections, and I’ve (jokingly) coined the term: “Connectionist” to describe the professional practice of connection making.
The final (cherry-on-top) design element was a logo identity. The challenge was to visually represent the Connectionist idea as well as myself. Here’s what I came up with:
The ‘sell’ of the Connectionist being that having a wide field of training allows someone to make connections between disparate disciplines and hence to produce creative solutions.
The design and development of this project has been (notwithstanding a few notable Jquery pains) quite a joy. The web is evolving faster than early man when he got his first set of opposable thumbs!
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I love the term ‘Connectionist’ it’s great. My hobby is Philosophy and I’ve been trying to articulate my thoughts and feelings on how the world is connected.
I am aware that your term means something slightly different but I just want to ask exactly what you do as a ‘coonectionist’, can you give me an example or something?
Love the designs by the way, extremely sharp and eye catching!
Nathan
Hi there Nathan,
Well my idea of a “Connectionist” is really just an old idea with a new word attached. Basically, I intended it to denote someone who can approach a problem by drawing on relatively disparate fields of knowledge, and combine the strengths / techniques of these fields to formulate a novel solution. Which is pretty much how I think ideas having been evolving since cave-men thought up the wheel.
I coined the phrase for a professional context though, as part of Curriculum Vitae site I’m just finishing up (Dylan Baskind.com).
What meaning did you have in mind for the term?
Dylan.
PS. Philosophically: I used to be a “connectionist” about the world, that is, an adamant dyed-in-the-wool determinist, a believer in predetermined & inevitable causal connection, but since investigating the micro-world of quantum phenomena I’ve been forced to change my tune!