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Cheri Ruane coworking at Design Annex

Todd Vanhoosear and I are hosting a mostly weekly coworking morning and lunch at Design Annex in Union Square Somerville. The inaugural session happened this past Friday. We’re moving it to Thursdays to coincide with Design Annex’s regularly scheduled third Thursday of the month brown bag lunch and afternoon coworking.

I’ve been working out of Design Annex since October 2009 — soon after they first opened their doors. If you need a place to escape beyond your home office or coffee shop and Union Square Somerville is a convenient location for you, this is the place to be. There’s also a great conference room you can book meetings in for up to eight people. The space has been a huge help as I work on my freelance web marketing and photography work plus my new endeavor Awesome Office Party. Union Square is also home to some seriously delicious restaurants including my favorite, Ronnarong. Their lunch specials are $7-$8. Everything is made fresh. It’s a crazy, tasty bargain. You can follow the restaurant on Twitter, too.

RSVP for Thursday Coworking at Design Annex

Let us know you’ll be at the next Thursday morning coworking by RSVPing on the Facebook event page. If you don’t use Facebook, send me an email to let me know you’d like to join us. If you’d like to attend the third Thursday brown bag lunch and afternoon coworking, RSVP on their EventBrite page.

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On April 26, 2010 Design Annex and Sprout hosted CrossHatch at Design Annex in Union Square, Somerville, gathering many of the collaborative groups, design collectives, artist communities and coworking spaces throughout greater Boston.

View my CrossHatch event photo gallery →

The guest list included:

Act Roxbury
AIGA Boston
Allston Arts District
Artists for Humanity
Artists Group of Charlestown
Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media
Betahouse
Boston Cyberarts
Boston Handmade
Boston Street Lab
Brickbottom Artists Association
The Brickyard Collaboration Space
BzzAgent.com
Cambridge Arts Council
Cambridge Coworking Center
Cambridge Innovation Center
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
Clean Energy Fusion
Deep Snow Boston
DIYbio
DogPatch Labs Cambridge
Dorchester Arts Collaborative
Dorkbot Boston
East Boston Open Studios
Eliot School
FEAST
Fort Point Arts Community
Friends of Fenway Studios
Fringe Movement
GASP Gallery Artists Studio Projects
Geek Offices
Boston Geek Girl Dinner
Graphic Artists Guild
Hangout Hub
Hyde Park Open Studios
Jamaica Plain Open Studios
Joy St. Studios
Magpie
MassArt, Center for Art & Community Partnerships
MIT Museum
MITERS
Muskat Studios
Nave Gallery
Nerdnite
North Shore InnoVentures
Papercut Zine Library
Pecha Kucha Boston
pinkcomma
Proof Gallery
Prospect Hill Forge
Roslindale Open Studios
Somerville Open Studios
South Boston Open Studios
sprout, inc.
Tech Superpowers’ Digital Lounge
The Center for Arts at the Armory
The Distillery
United South End Artists
Vernon St. Studios
Waltham Mills Artists’ Association
Willoughby & Baltic
Workbar

Design Annex was bustling with people at the grand opening and open house last week for the new coworking space for designers and creatives in Somerville’s Union Square. In between meeting a lot of interesting people, I shot a few photographs and here’s the gallery. Click on each photo to see a larger image.

I recently joined forces with Union Square Main Streets to work with Executive Director Mimi Graney on web projects including refreshing the Union Square Main Street’s website and social media projects. As part of the collaboration, I’m working out of their new Design Annex coworking space that Union Square Main Streets recently opened above Precinct. Established for designers and other creatives, the Design Annex offers desk space and other office perks for freelancers who typically work from home.

On Thursday, October 15th Design Annex is hosting an open house from 4-6pm. Anticipated guests include:

• Mayor Joseph Curtatone, City of Somerville
• Jason Schupbach, Creative Industry Director, MA Office of Economic Development
• Beate Becker, DIGMA (Design Industry Group of Massachusetts)
• Kathy McCabe, President, Mass Economic Development Council
• Meri Jenkins, Adams Arts Program, Mass Cultural Council

If you’re curious about Design Annex (especially if you are a designer/creative) — stop by on Thursday, October 15th 4-6pm to see the space. The address is 66-70 Union Square, Somerville.