Hello and welcome to the new and improved onThebackwall! My name is Matt, and I’m very excited to finally unveil OTBW v2.0 after some great initial feedback from our users. While not all of our plans for the new site are fully realized yet, the bulk of them are in place and ready to go. A quick list of the new/improved features here at onThebackwall:
- Customizable user profiles, complete with your very own unique URL.
- Three quick and interactive ways of receiving and providing project feedback: online “Mark-ups”, “Quick Critiques”, and comments.
- Interactive and customizable pin-ups.
- Profiles for institutions so that you can check out what kind of things certain schools are up to (Sidenote: if you’re an administrator at a school and would like to provide some information for your profile, send me an email).
- A Featured section (coming soon), where we’ll highlight projects/techniques, host small design competitions (and by small we mean awesome), and other feature-worthy content on a weekly basis.
- An improved theBackmix, for your aural working pleasure.
- This BLOG! where we’ll post everything from site updates to musings on various design topics to tutorials that you’ll hopefully find useful in some of your future projects.
- And of course, a large community of young designers to discuss ideas and techniques with.
So ya, take a look around and if you have any questions or comments, check out the Help/FAQ section or send us an email. Our goal is to create a forum where students and other young designers can discuss ideas, projects, and techniques with a wide range of their contemporaries. Whether you come here to discuss design, share an idea, or simply to be inspired, we hope onThebackwall becomes a helpful resource for you throughout the design process.
Woo!
Tweet This / 
Facebook
