This is the place where you’ll get all the news about MyRight2Write.com… including the latest buzz on just-released products, stuff about our donor schools, press, and other important info.

But more importantly, this is a place for you to come and play with us. We need submissions from YOU to post to this blog and we hope you’ll send us something soon.

Here are some ideas to get you started, but we welcome your creativity too:

1. Tell us how you came to find out about MR2W. Did someone give you a journal? Who? For what occasion?

2. Which is your favorite monster and why?

3. Send us ideas for other text message abbreviations you’d like to see us use.

4. Scan or photograph a cool page from your journal and send us a low-res (72 dpi) jpeg along with a few sentences about the page.

5. If you don’t have access to a scanner or digital camera, just email us something you’ve written in your journal… a poem, an essay, a drawing… anything!

6. Send us a memory of writing in composition books (especially if you are a grown up!).

To learn more about MyRight2write.com read the essay below. And, thanks for visiting.

OUR STORY

MyRight2Write.com is the project of a small private graphics practice in the Washington, DC metropolitan area called designfarm. As was our custom every other Friday, on a quiet day in December, the 3-person staff of our studio came together for a brown-bag lunch meeting about design. The meetings addressed not the smaller issues of design: font choices and color palettes, even project budgets or concepts, but rather Design Issues with a capital D: creativity, inspiration, meaningful work that is also socially responsible. That particular week, designfarm’s tagline, Uncommon Solutions for the Common Good, was the theme of the meeting. Where might we locate exciting new ways to fulfill on this promise?

The answer came as we explored the internet, checking in with explosive DIY communities such as Etsy, where many of the shopowners (including designfarm’s owner, Jodi Bloom) are professional designers by day and makers of other things by night. We visited the sites of other businesses where creativity ruled, where the boundaries were only as restrictive as the creator’s imaginations, and where people were carving out a reasonable living designing and making a contribution to society.

The seed of MyRight2Write.com was planted at that Friday meeting, was watered daily and grew during subsequent meetings on the beanbag chairs and around the tables at designfarm. There’ve been bumps along the way, but we’ve had loads of fun developing the business model, the products, and now, bringing everything to you!

ps: We are real people! Please email us with any questions you have, or with press inquiries.